The New York herald., 1922-07-16
COLUMBIA RAVORS
LONGER CONTESTS
Make 1t Two or Double, but
Not Three Says
Rice.
PENN OPPOSES CHANGE
Syracuse sIss Indifferent-Lo-
ooI CALI - l. TT~-1
PENN OPPOSES CHANGE
Syracuse sIs, Indifferent-Lo-
cal Coliegians in Harlem
Club Shells.

course at Poughkeepsie comes before the
stewards Of the dntercoliegiate Rowing
Association at the meeting In the office
Of Morton G. Bofue there may be
good deal Of talk. but 4 seems very
likely that the three mile course will be
abandoned. Since the first intsreoi-
legiate regatta twenty odd years age
the length Of the pull has been four
miles. with but fevr exceptions OF
these exceptions one was two miles and
the others three miles. Two Of the de-
partures from the customary distance
were not rowed at Peuglkeepsie. The
two exceptions that dld Ake place on
the Hudson were both ut three miles.
When it was decided to hold Americas
annual Hudson classic over . three mile
course In 1921 the stewards had an OBJ
ject In view. The desired end was to
get Princeton to make the annual pill
grimage to Poughkeepsie, but the bait
was, not as attractive to the Tiger az
the stewards hoped 1t would be. Prince
ton rowing authorities contend that all
the drive. speed, pep" stamina and any
thing else that q crew may hare can be
brought out In two miles. The inter
collegiate rowing bosses have ABOUT
given up their hope Of getting Old Mas
sau to Join the Hudson neet,
The vote on the length Of the course
at the February meeting Of the Rowing
Association in this city was evenly
shorter distance another chance. How
ever things now appear to be quite diff
ferent.
Columbia Is definitely IN favor OF the
four mile standard. Jim Rice, the Biue
and White coach, said that ne consfd-
cred the three mile pull two mile race
with an extra mile tackled on. He says !.
Make it two or four, preferably four"
Syracuse Is indifferent and is just AZ
willing to row four miles AZ three, With
the big, husky parsp2en that Jim Ten
Eyck gets at the Salt City Institution
II is little wonder that the Orange is
not ayerse to taking part In an en-
durance test. 1t is understood that
Cornell is now In favor of going back
to the old four mile test. That leaves
only the University Of Pennsylvania to
oppose Q resokutioa changing the dis
tance. fH
Columbia Men In Training.
There are several of Jim Rices
Columbia University oarsmen who do
not believe In breaking training during
the interval between the close of the
rowing season and the opening OF college
in September. which marks the resunp-
ton of the aquatic sport. Seven OF the
more prominent members OF the rowipg
squad are pulling sweeps tor the Union
Boat Club.
That the Union Boat Club apparently
has monopoly on the Blue and White
oarsmen may be due, in large measure,
to the fact that before the class OF
1897 Arts and Mines, presented the
oarsmen with boathouse on the Dyck-
man tract, recently acquired through the
generosity of George r. Baker, Coium-
bias sweep swIngers and shells were
housed by Union. Other local boat clubs
along the Harlem and Hudson rivers
have a few of the Lions In their shells,
at least, for the summer.
All of the seven men rowing are ex-
cellent oarspaen and participated In the
foughkeepsie regatta last month, six
having seats in the varsity shell and
the other holding down a place in the
junior boat. The men who rowed IN
the varsity are Capt, Ralph Swinburne.
Rea Nelson. Charles Incs, Irving
Cooper. william Ferris and, Franklin
Brodil, while George Waschek was In
the "jayvfe" boat.
or the septet. the most prominent is
Franklin ". Brodil the Columbia stroke
who was rated the finest pacemaker In
the East year ago. Brodn learned
his first rowing at the Union Boat Club
However, jt was under the tutelage OF
Jim Rice that he made his greatest
strides to gain the coveted pacemaker's
place on numerous all Eastern rowing
sclcctions. After the war Brodil was
stroke OF the American shell that took
pnrt I'm the inter-aiiied regatta.
Brodil Heaviest MAN In Crew.
Brodil was the heaviest man In the
Columbia first boat. tipping the scale at
III, and could easily ~ shifted arounf
when sweep swingers were missing or
when Rice thought he could make up a
better combination. He pulled a rower-
full oar and could row on the port or
starboard side wit hequai facility. as the
Union shell was starboard rigged,
Capt Swinbprne, an 0arsr1an almost
as heavy and n SIX footer, is rowing at
bow for Union, which is the Same place
that ne held down at Poughkeepsie
George Waschek, who pulled at No. Z
H.. the Blue and White Junior eight, is
holding down seat No. for the club.
probably because In Irving Cooper tina
Union coach has the regular. Columbia
varsity No. man. Rea Nelson Is pull.
ing oar No. .. which he did for the Lion
varsity, while Charles Inee, who finally
wrested from Lowell ths No. place In
the varsity for the Hudson classic, Il
row rowing In the same place, william
Ferris is seated in the important No. ]
scat.