The New York herald., 1922-05-15
Showed Itself to Be Splendid
Three Mile Combination
at Princeton.
BY DANIEL.

With the Childs cup race out of the
way followers of intercollegiate row.
ing now will turn tEeir attention to
the annual triangular regatta among
Yale, Princeton and Cornell. which is
to be held on the Housatonic at Derby
on Saturday. The Ellis, who are re-
ported to have improved greatly since
their setbacks by Pennsylvania and
Columbia, will make a bold effort to
retrieve their fortunes. Cornell, al
ways watched closely, will make it's
1922 debut, while Princeton will de-
fend it's new won laurels-tEe honors
it earned so brilliantly on Lake Car
negie last Saturday, when it swept the
program.
Princetons fine varsity eight covered
itself with glory in that never to be for
gotten struggle with Columbia on Sat-
urday--a contest which went to the
Tigers by a margin Of only five feet
and which stamped both crews with the
They not only had plenty of CUTS but
they showed tremendous power and row.
ing form at which it was decidedly easy
to look.
In our allotment OF the honors let us
not forget that game $50 pound eight
which Pennsylvania sent into the var
sity race. The light crew fought itself
out, rowed until it had nothing left and
at that finished only a couple of lengths
behind the duellists.
Columbia Spurted Too Late.
There was glory aplenty for all three
crews. and Columbia need not worry
about the fact that it was beaten. Had
Frank Brodil, its stroke, started his
rally little sooner it Is highly prob
able that there would have been a diff
ferent tale to tell. However. Brodil no
doubt had his instructions. and was con-
tent to take pace for mile. Then he
raised his stroke from 80 to a "a and
then up to SO and 3S.
There were two stages of that Column
bia sf}urt. one from the mile to the mile
and a quarter and the other from the
mile and half to the finish Of the mile
and three-quarters race. There was a
slight letdown in between these stages
and this letdown. which did not seem
doubt underrated the Tigers staying
powers.
The letdown was costly in the matter
of victory, but it took little from Jim
Rice's crew in prestige. The finish lef.
the impression that Columbia was a fine
three mile crew. and that it was just
warming to its task when the end came.
Had they gone three miles we believe
that the Blue and White would have
won. But as it was race Of not more
than mile and three-quarters. and DR..
Spaeths pupils won. the glory is to the
Tigers. They rowed we'll with their
arms and legs and they rowed well with
their heads. Sid Milne. their stroke, de-
serves world of credit.
Columbia's crew left the impression
that it had more power than the Tigers.
1t had power and a lot of confidence.
For a mile IL rowed a tantalizing race
tantaliZng for Columbia men on the
canal banks. While Princeton and Penn
sylvania rowed at frantic gait and
pulled out to the front the New Workers
were content to go along on what looked
like a schedule. The other two crews had
orders to squirt at the start and keep
squirting.
CoIumbia's Plans Failed.
Princeton knew that the light Penn
crew had orders TO dash out in front and
maintain high stroke. and the Tigers
were not going to let the $50 Founders
get the jump on them. AS for Colum-
bia. 1t rowed that mile smoothly. nom
chalantly, with an easy. long stroke.
never going beyond thirty. Columbia
felt that while it was taking its time the
other two would fight each other to a
standstill. But the Tigers had little
more than anybody suspected they had.
The showinA made by Penn's $50
Founders was in line with what we had
expected. Even IL that eight did beat
the Penn varsity 1t was folly to believe
that 1t could row with two 17s pound
crews of class on the dead waters of
Carnegie Lake. It's tough pulling on
that shallow course.
In so far as comparison with the Navy
is concerned neither Princeton nor CO.
lumbia could have beaten the Midship-
men. Next Saturday will see the Navy
against Syracuse. and we will get an
other line on Poughkeepse. Cornell will
show what it has against Princeton, and
there will be another medium of COM
parison. That will leave only Washing
ton an absolutely unknown quantity.
Morton q. Bogue told US on Saturday
that II was certain Washington
would row at Poughkeepsie. The coast
rowing authorities have inquired about
quarters at Highland