South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-23
EYES OF EAST ON
VARSITY FIGHTS OF
CRIMSON And BLUE
Each Crew Has Won Twenty,
Seven Boat Races Since
Start IN 1882.

NEW fONDo%. Conn June p
Tradition that has come down
through the years viii. slip into the
old Thames tomorrow alongside the
crews 90 Yale and Harvard the Bit
terest OF gentle foes. as they lift their
shells into The stream whose rlppies
viii hum TO the Atlantic tom0rro"
night the praise Of The vIctors in The
50-50 varsity regatta cham
pionship ~ the eight-oared crews.
As compelling and majestic a.
their yearly football game is the
annual regatta of Yale and Harvard.
made SO by the fuI hearts that
strain with as much nerve ashore as
under the tanned breasts az the oars.
AS exhiIiratlng as the daring and the
shriehng yelIs that the frosty winds
% Autumn whisk across the grid
irons is the screaching OF whistles
and the cIank OF bells on the variety
IL craft that is jdmbled together
somehow tonight among the lanes the
crews Will traverse on the morrow.
CoNswain like Quarterback.
I'm place Of the battered quarter
backs cryptic signals behind the
living redge formed by the huesmen.
will be miniature men seated IN the
sterns or the feather-like shells.
pleading 10 eight sun Drowned,
sinewy forms. sliding 20 and fro
while their long sweeps dip into the
water. respond 20 the tug and the
sheel shoot forward another rod
Tradition says that the only answer
10 the coxsWain's plea is a tighter
clenching Of the jfiiaws OF the oars
men-and sometimes a little more
speed.
Tonight New London, as grim
usually az any New England habitat
Of small-folk. is gay with the fore
runners of regatta throngs that will
pour iu all day i'm automobiles, on
trains. trolleys and pleasure craft
made welcome by the natives OF the
old seaport who apparently take as
much joy in listening to the rumble
as the visitors take in making d..
The crews. segregated from their
admirers. are printing their nerves
for the test that comes only TO the
few.
Annual Anair
The Nale-Harvard regatta has
been am annual anair-with period
4. intermissiOns- 1852 and $40
determinedly have the crews of botn
institutions fought i'm IL that ootn
have won "a varsity races. alternate
is. the last four times, following the
period OF supremacy that the Grim
son enjoyed in the early years OF
tsis century. Vale won last year
and Harvard the year before.
The result cannot be forecast 10y
resorting to the performance Of eth
or varsity crew this year AID prog
nosticating is made doubly difficult
by the change In rowing methods
that Yale. senssionally made u
month ago. deposiug the head coach.
Jim Corderry. teacher of the Eng
lish style. and replacing him with his
brother. George Corderry, mentor or
the American style who was the tu-
tor OF the frshmen crew
Both Defeated.
Both Yale and Harvard have been
defeated this year by the University
of Pennsylvania and Princeton tn
either dual or triangular regattas.
Tonight the critics are pointing 70
the victory OF Princeton over Har-
ward IN the race won by the Navy
Mav In which the Crimsol came i'm
eight lengths behind the winner and
two lengths aft the sterl ofthe Tiger
PRINCETON Also finished second In a
three-cornered race MAY 20 at Derby.
in which Yale was third-the re-
Cornell FFhtan