The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-28
ELI Fights show
IMPROVED STYLE
Have Gained in Polish Since
Defeats by Penn Fort
night Ago.
LOCAL CREWS FAVORED
Ought to Win at Mile and a
Half Over the Speedway
I Course Tomorrow.
BY DANIEL.

For the frSt time In the long and
honorable history of rowing in this
neck of the woods crew from Yale
last evening was seen on the Harlem
River. To be precise, there were two
Fights representing the Blue--the var
sity and the Junior varsity-which are
to meet similar combinations from Co
lumbia in their annual regatta to-
morrow over the Speedway course.
While a strong northwest wind
swept down the river with the tide
and revived conditions of February
which froze out all thoughts Of merry
spring, a coterie Of rowing sharps got
a splendid opportunity to note the
great contrast between the modified
English style of the Ellis and the
Americana Canadian method Of the
Blue and White. The Columbians
were first on the river. Shortly after
5 o'clock Jim Rice sent them over the
regatta stretch Of mile and half
from Fordham Bridge down to High
bridge-at a pretty fast clip.
About half an hour later the Yale
Fights went out for a spin and while
they exerted no great effort for speed
they took pains In the direction Of style
and made quite an impression. Having
seen Yale lose three races to Pennsyl-
vania nearly two weeks ago we are in
a position to say that the Eli varsity
has improved tremendously in rhythm,
cleanness of execution, polish. Whether
that polish will stand the stress of
hard race remains to be seen.
Ellis Get Strong welcome.
The Yale squad came down from New
Haven early In the afternoon and after
getting settled at the Pennsylvania got
into q sightseeing bus bound for the
Nonpareil Rowing Club house on the
Speedway. There the Ellis were greeted
by Morton G. Bogue. chairman of the
Columbia Rowing COMMITTEES: Charles
II. Mapes and Rice. Charles Dana Glib
son, whose son Langhorne Is captain
of the Yale navy. and Payne Whitney
of the Yale Rowing Committee also were
on the scene to bid the Blue welcome.
The Ellis took the water with Gibson
in the second boat. He was shifted from
the varsity some lays ago in order to
facilitate change of style for the short
races leading to the four mile grind
with Harvard. He is to go back to the
big eight for the classic. John Freeman,
the LAT pound stroke who was sent into
the second crew after the race with
Pennsylvania, was back again in the
varsity, while e. Ewing was seen again
at stroke oar in the Junior shell.
The varsity was boated as follows:
Stroke. J. Freeman; No. Z. w. N. Halde-
man: No. 8. J. s. Rockefeller; No. 5.
T. II. ID. Haines: No. 4, #. Sheffield:
No. q r. b. Russell; No. 2 ]. l.. Car
man, r.; bow. c. ". Whitney: coxswain,
C. w. Chase The junior varsity was
seated this way: Stroke. e. Ewing: No.
Z, d. II. Bigelow; No. 8, G. c. Ellis; No.
s. L. Gibson; No. 4. w. L. Goodwin. Jr. /;
bow. w. Leslie. Jr.: coxswain, ID. c.
Thomas.
juniors Take the Lead.
After padding UP the river to Ford
ham Bridge the crews went away at
a Is, with the junior boat enjoying a
slight lead. They came down to n "a
pretty soon. with the Ewing stroked
boat still showing the way. In front
OF the Columbia headquarters at the
Union Boat Club, with all the Blue and
White oarsmen gathered on the float
to give their rivals the ''once over" the
Yale vastly raised its stroke TO 26
beats and went to the front. II stayed
there. The junior boat spurted, but
the big eight met the challenge with a
bit of n squirt of it's own. At High
bridge the varsity was about a length
10 the good.
a speedboat right behind his oarsmen
but made no attempt to do any coaching.
He will iron. out a few rough edges this
morning, and this evening the Fights
will paddle over the course and practice
starts.
The Yale varsity showed a pretty keel
and it's spacing was very much i'm
proved. There no longer was a catch
between strokes. However, Il still did
fts feathering under the water and did
not seem to dig deep enough. There
was plenty of length and reach to the
stroke--it looked decidedly pretty. But
much as II was improved over the style
used against Pennsylvania II still did
not impress us as being strong enough
10 cope with the faster. more powerful
Columbia stroke for race to be decided
over mile and half
Columbia More Serious.
The Columbia crews went through a
workout similar 20 that of the Yale
eights- They padded to the head of the
course and then had IL out They took
the spin more seriously than did the
Blue. The Columbia varsity went to the
fore ut the start and never was headed
They got away mt 3S and then came
down 10 a "a. At the mile the varsity
came UP TO 90. and was as smooth az
any crew could be in the gale. Near the
finish the big eight hit up 37---was
getting about everything IL was req ching
for. spacing beautifully--power and
polish combined.
Rice would make no prediction but
preferred to let the contrast seen on the
water speak for itself. Certainly the
contrast favored the Blue and White.
but q Yale crew never Is beaten before
a race. II proved that last June against
Harvard. II have a strong varsity, In
good shape and In good form for this
stage Of the season. 1t may win," said
Jim.
Varsity Race mt $40 r. M.
Mr.. Bogue announced that the varsity
race Tomorrow would be started at 80
p. NJ, with the Junior vdrsity half an
hour earlier The races will be rowed
- a low tide. Julian w. Curtiss OF
Yale will be the referee and Mr.. Mapes
Will be the timer. Yale always has In
sisted that William Meikleham OF CO.
lumbia referee the Yale Columbia re-
gattas at New Haven and Derby, and
now Columbia is returning the compli-
ment