The New York herald., 1922-06-18
TRADITIONAL RIVALS
TO BATTLE FRIDAY
Ellis Face Test After Only a
Month Under New
Coaching System.
DROP ENGLISH STROKE
Changed Rigging Too - New
London All Set for the
Great Event.
DROP ENGLISH STROKE
by DANIEL.

ny DANIEL.
Next Friday staid old New London,
bailiwick of the whalers OF other days,
will break into its annual hustle and
For on Friday New London will be
invaded again by the numerous CO.
horts of Harvard and Yale for the
fifty-fifth regatta of the traditional
rivals-and the only four mile battle
in America.
This year there is no rowing cham
pionship to be decided in the big var
sity contest on the Thames. This year
finds both Harvard and Yale rather low
In the standing of American intercolle-
giate rowing competition. But with
all that, the usual crowd will be there.
The usual interest will be demon
strated and the usual enthusiasm de-
veloped. When the Crimson meets
the Blue past performances against
other opposition are forgotten. All
other rivalries pale before the fiery
enthusiasm which makes this regatta
as great a spectacle as that on the
Hudson.
There will be only two crews in each
or the three races on Friday--contests
for freshmen and junior varsities In the
morning and the big event in the eve.
ming. But these crews will row down
fairway as picturesque as that which
will see six big eights pull down the
Hudson at Poughkeepsie a week from
tomorrow. There will be fleet of big
yachts along the Thames course, and
myriad smaller craft
The Girls VIII BE There.
There will be flags and pennons. a riot
or color and enthusiasm bevies of pretty
girls such as only the big college classics
can bring out, galaxies of comely
matrons, judges, lawyers. bankers, men
high in every walk of life taking their
annual holiday at staid old New Lon
don.
Once more the Harvard varsity is the
favorite. But that means little 1t may
mean more this time than 1t has meant
in the past, but there is no telling what
will happen. He who attempts TO pre-.
dict the result of these struggles be-
tween the Crimson and the Blue find.
that fate and lot of accomplices hav,
a nasty way of taking hand and
knocking the so-called dope" topsy
turvy. Harvard is favored, but Yale
comedies nothing in the four mile grind
Last June, It will be recollected, Gu'
Nickalls retired from the position oi
head coach of the Yale crews and James
Corderry, his assistant took his place
hot .Ixw hnF1 H.. 80
and Nickalls had called the Ellis q
'gutiess crew" There was a feverist
week Of reorganization. or intensiv,
preparation, OF building an unbreakablC
will to win. Came the big struggle, will
Harvard the favorite. And that "gutles
crew was the winner in as pretty
race as the old Thames has seen.
Yale Again Has New Coach.
This June finds Yale again fresh from
reorganization and a change o
f. coaches. When Yale failed so badly
against Princeton and Cornell at Derby
the rowing committee decided that some
thing would have to be done. It decided
that the English stroke taught by Jane.
Corderry. the English rigging, the entir'
English system, would not do. 1t asked
George Corderry, who was then coaching
the freshmen, and who had had som'
experience with a stroke approximatint
the American, to take charge of thu
Yale varsity while his brother took VI
the coaching of the yearlings.
So next Friday Yale will go ou
against Harvard with a reorganizeC
eight which has been rowing a new
stroke only a month--with new rigging
new methods all around. Again Yal
Is the under dog" and again the out
look seems dark. But a miracle may
come to pass.
Harvard, too. Is under new coach
After the beating by the Ellis Last jun
the Crimson decided that coaching
methods had something to do with tn
setback. So Bill Haines, the British
mentor. was denoted. and DR.. r. Hebei
Howe. of the faculty, was appointed IL
his place. Dr. Howe had had expert
ence In coaching crews at Middlese'
school. He has made changes in Har
wards style and seems TO have worked
some Improvement.
YaIe's Poor Record.
In its opening regatta Of the seasor
IN April Yale was beaten by Pennsyl
vania in all three races--varsity' fresh
man and $50 Founders. The Els
frankly. looked very bad--worse thai
anvbody wanted to say In Its mex
columbia. and there seemed to be M
Improvement. Then came the disma
failure at Derby. in which Cornell bea
Princeton by three and half lengths
and Yale by about eight. In tw,
mile race some Ellis finished exhausted
and then came the decision to move
radically and move swiftly.
Those who showed that they eoulc
not stand the gaff at two miles tnat ga
varsity
The crew has been reseated so that y
has more weight and more stamina. u
averages close TO 175 pounds now with
In three pounds OF the heaviest eight'
In competition.
Harvard's eight was beaten In Its hrs
race by Pennsylvania, bWt it 'Aade
good showing in rough water. whicf
Handicapped the Red and Blue. Ther'
were :. couple OF changes In the crew
after that te-S ans, then game the tri
angular race nth the Navy ant
princeton on the Charles. AS had beer