The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-18
THREE-SIDED EVENTS TO FEATURE
 VARSITY CREW RACES IN THE EAST

NEW YORK, April 1s-tBy Asso- ciated Press .)-This years college rowing program in the East reveals a marked trend toward triangular races instead of dual events. Five of the Il major varsity contests scheduled between April 21 and June 2S are three,cornered affairs. They promise to develop some of the most Interesting competition in recent years.
 The first triangular event is the Childs Cup race at Philadelphia, April 2S, when Colum bia, Pennsylvania and Princeton renew their old rivalry. The date is earlier this year than usual.
 One week later, Yale, Pennsylvania and Columbia will meet on the Hous- atomic River. at Derby, Conn.,. in their first triangular event. This race will be repeated in the next two years, under a thrce-year agreement by the colleges to scrap their former dual races and substitute the three-crew event on the "home and home" basis. On the same date as the Yale-Peln- Columbia brush. Harvard, Navy and Princeton will get together on Lake Carnegie at Princeton.
 Tho fourth and fifth three-cornered regattas are scheduled for May 19. Navy, Syracuse and Pennsylvania will row at Annapolis, while Cornell, Princeton and Yale race on Lake Cay uga, Ithaca. If Princeton bests liar ward May 5, the latter event will set tic the crown for the Big Three rivals-Princeton Harvard and Yale. If Princeton loses in both, it will remain for the Yale.Haryard classic June P. on the Thames River at New London. to decide the question of supremacy.
 May 19 also is the date for two dual events on the Harlem River at New York-one between Columbia and Massachusetts Institute of Tech noiogy and the other between the 150-pound crews of Columbia and Pennsylvania.
 The opening race of the season, April 21, is a dual race between Pennsylvania and the Navy on the Severn River A week later, NJ. |. T crosses blades with the midship- men at Annapolis.
 Second crews of the M. I. T. and Harvard are slated to meet on the Charles River May 12 On the same date an interesting interscholastic race among leading Eastern prep and high school crews is scheduled at New Haven.
 Harvard and Cornell will seek su- premacy on the Charles River May 26 and four days later the Crimson's 15O-pound eight will meet the light weight Yale boat at Derby for the first time.
 Several college teams will enter the American Henley regatta on the ISchuyllcill River, Philadelphia, May 26. Princeton already has entered three crews, junior, third varsity and 150-pound eights.
 The intercollegiate regatta on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, June 2S, will furnish the climax of the rowing season. The redoubtable Navy eight, which closed it's brilliant career by winning the championship for the sec ond consecutive time last June. will not be represented this year. but the competition promises to be none the less keen.
 Cornell, Columbia Pennsylvania and Syracuse-the four members or the I. A. A-,will compete, while 1t is pos sible that the Pacific Coast cham pions.. either Washington or Califor- mia University, may come East TOT the blue ribbon classic of the season The University of Wisconsin also was invited to take part but decided not ito do so