The New York herald., 1922-04-29
Rival Crews Conclude Trial
Spins for Race Along
Speedway Stretch.
WEST COURSE FOR YALE
Columbia Stroke Lmpresses
Critics as Better Suited for
Mile and a Half.
BY SAMUEL ), BRooKMAN.

GotEam's first rowing treat of the
year is scheduled for the Harlem
River Speedway course this evening
between and o'clock. At that hour
two hopeful Yale crews competing for
the first time in history on the Har-
lem, will try to atone at the expense
of the Columbia oarsmen for the re-
cent overwhelming defeat at the
hands of the Pennsylvania sweep
swingers. At that hour a mighty, con-
fident band of Columbia oarsmen will
try to repeat the triumph scored over
Yale on the Housatonic a year ago.
Blue and Blue and White went
through their last practice spins yes
terday in preparation for the event,
while critics, some ree;, some fancied,
looked on, tried to rick flaws in row.
ing form and compared the power Of
the rival eigrts A sharp, chill wind
swept the course most of the day. and
particularly when toward evening the
Yale men came out for tieir sacoad
practice oe the day and the Columblans
for their only spin. But neither wind
nor chill bothe ered the oarsn.en in the
noticeable degree.
As an the previous day Columbia
with its quicka-. snappier stroke i'm
presso6 as the more powerful couabna-
tions ~ the better suited for struggle
OF only a mile and half; Yale with
its longer. slower sweep and greater
reach as the more apt to show to ed
vartags In a long race. That opialon
appeared to prevail, in fact to re al
most unanimous among old oarsmen
who svarmed about Columbia head
QuartcrR Ut the Union Boat, Club. On
tho strength of it Columbians were
fairly oozing confidence yesterday, max
Ing no attampt to conceal it. The only
question aIpcng them was not who was
going 30 win. but just how wire The
margin o. victory was to be. What q
shock to local undergraduates and .ow
ing sharps Yale victory to-day would
be!
Conhaeuee w. Determination.
Ove- at ira Yale quarters at ;he
Norpa.e'l Rcvtpg Club less than fifty
yards swaL thr-s wss no slch mir Of
confidence, rather one of quiet. grim
determination. The Eli men are not
Worrying oyer the outcome, neither are
they conccdirg anything 20 their OPP
ronents. There wos something about
the busSnesslike way In whiCS they went
at their work and something In the
perfectly cheerful countenances OF oars
men. coanres and The rest of the Yale
coterie thar gave decidedly hopeful
impression The New Haven rnrn ap-
pear to be pretty certain thst they
have roafe real progress IN the fort
night s,nre the Pennsylvania regatta
and that they are prepared to give a
far different account Of themselves.
In order te become thoroughly IA
miliar with th. course the Yale oarsmen
held two practice spins during the day,
one shortly before noon and the other
shortly after o'clock.
In the morning both the varsity and
junior eigkts covered the entire course
padding ard praciioinsy starts and max
Ing little attempt at any stage to attain
top sreed. In the evening. however. the
two Blue c~ows raced se- es of quarter
mile sprints as they rowee over the
lepAht OF the course Both eights rowed
smoothly but rarely exceeded 26,
clingug most of the time to "a. In
the brushes between varsity and second
varsity the former generslly showed In
front, but never by any decisive margin.
AS some OF the Columbia oarsmen nad
late classec yesterday, the Blue and
White crews did not get out on the
water until well past O'CLOCK, cut the
Columbians, nevertheless, went through
Q snappy half hours practice. 1t was
featured by a fast drive of about three
eighths OF mile. staged just to give
the Yale men something to worry about"
as one local supporter expressed 1t.
Finish Above High Bridge.
In the draw by lot for position Yale
won the west COURSE for both racps In
two boat race this will scarcely give
either eight any particular advantage.
Both varsity and junior crews are to
race over course that measures slightly
more than a mile and a half and that
extends from just below Fordham Bridge
to just above High Bridge In expecta-
.ion of q great throng on the bridges and
along the Speedway shore, a special de-
tail of police will be on hand. More
than $4,000 saw the Childs cup race
there last spring. The first race, the