San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
One Of Biggest Rowing
i Seasons on Record This
|sa Year, Camp Thinks.
NEW COACHES ON JOB
Work Of Muller at Harvard
<. and Leader and Yale
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New York, April This season
promises to be one of the greatest
this country has ever had in rowing.
The coming of warmer weather and
the disappearance of snow and ice
have brought rowing prospects TO the
fore with increased emphasis. Sweeps
are swinging ON score OF courses
and the scullers are rapidly getting
themselves into form for a strenuous
season.
Seven Columbia crews have been
boated on the Harlem and Coach Rice
is laboring theoretically toward forma-
ton of the combinations which will
represent the Blue and White in later
regattas. japanese students at Har-
ward have organized an eight-oared
crew and the varsity has loaned them
q shell in order that they may learn
American rowing and introduce it into
Japan on their return home.
At both Harvard and Yale new
coaches are in charge. Heber Howe,
who resigned at Harvard, has been re-
placed by Frank j.. Muller of Phila-
delphia as head coach. He will be as
sisted by Haines. At New Haven, Ed.
Leader has come on from the Pacific
Coast and has full charge. with two
assistants of his own choosing. Leader
does not propose to make the mistake
of having his men battered to pieces
by defeats before they learn his meth
DDS, and in view of the past history
this seems a wise move.
..- New Idea i'm Tanks.
DIR. Spaeth of Princeton and Wright
of Pennsylvania, are hard at work.
Syracuse is credited with a special de-
vice for tank howing, which duplictes
outside conditions more nearly than
anything that has been done before
and the results from its use are being
watched for eagerly.
Settlement of the discussion as to
the distance to be rowed at Pough-
keepsie has enabled coaches to make
definite training plans for that event.
The factors which resulted in fixing
snhe distance at three miles seem TO
have been the desire of Cornell to
stand by the old principles support
ed by Courtney who always favored
the shorter race, and the feeling Mt
PENNSYLVANIA that the amount of time
and training necessary for the three
mile race was less than that required
By kthe four4mile contest. The New
London race between Harvard and
Yale remains at four miles as al
ways.
There will be plenty OF shorter
races, dual and triple contests. the
American Henley on the Schuylkill,
the Childs Cup races, and contests on
the Housatonic in which Columbia
and Penn will meet Yale. A three-year
agreement has been signed by Yale
80 that races will be rowed both on
the Harlem and on the Schuylkill.
Coast Not Decided.
There are rumors of Middle Western
universities going in for rowing, and
Brown is also considering it serious
ly. Out on the Pacific Coast, the races
on this spring at Oakland will deter
mine largely whether crew will be
sent East.
Cornell. a crew that is usually
blocked up by ice very late. has al
ready had some outdoor practice, al
though the, men are two weeks late
compared with the time they got on
the water last year. Coach Hoyle, how
ever, Is putting in some serious work.
both with his heavy and light varsity
crews.
We shall get the first definite line
in real competition at the end of this
month when on April % the Childs
Cup races are rowed at Philadelphia
with Pennsylvania, Princeton and Col
umbia represented. There will also be
{ other varsity and 1J0-pound crews
on the river, the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology rowing the Navy.
( On May 8 we shall have the first
opportunity to see the effects of the
new Leader regime at Yale when, on
stA 3pusatonic, in both varsity and
junior varsity races. Penn. Column
bia and Yale meet. There will also be
a race that day, between Tech and
Yale 1926 crows.
High Spots in Prgram.
Princeton has varsity and freshmen
contests that SINE day with Harvard
and the Navy. On the 10Th Junior
and 159-pound crews get chance on
Harvard 150-pound crew rowing
the Charles River, the Harvard Jun.
Tors rowing the Tech Juniors. and the
Techs 150-pound crew. On the 10th
there will be a general invitation re-
gatta on the Charles River. On the
10th Cornell has a big day at Ithaca,
rowing Yale and Princeton, with the
Harvard, Yale and Princeton 150-
pound crew contest on the Charles
I River and the Harvard class crew
champion against the Yale class crew
champion. On the Harlem River Col
umbia tackles Tech, and Penn and
the Columbia Junior varsity meet.
while on the Severn Annapolis rows
Syracuse.
On the 26th of May Cornell goes to
Cambridge to row Harvard on the
Charles River. with the varsity and
freshmen crews but the big event OF
the day Is the American Henley at
Philadelphia. On the Goth Harvard
and Yale 150-pound freshmen crews
meet on the Housatonic. Then there
is nothing further until the Yale Hair
ward race on the Thames at New
London. varsity. Juniors and Fresh
men on June 22nd, and then the
finale. the intercollegiate regatta on