The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-24
P0UGHKEEPSIE
REGATTA Is
OPEN TO ALL
Season Of Upsets Makes Task
Hard in Predicting Crew
Likely to Win
(BY JIMMY POWERS))

POughkecpsie, N. r., June "a
(NEA The annual regatta of 1927
may not be the best Of the long SER
les of races rowed under the heights
Of the Highlands here, but it GER
tainly promises to be the most tur-
bulent.
Wisconsin is the only crew that
has definitely withdrawn although
rumors of illness, cpidcmics of
humps. measles and whatnot arc fly
ing thick and fast as the day Of the
c0lorful river classic approaches.
This is undeniably the season Of
upscts.
This spring the long cherished de-
sire Of California to beat Washing
ton .borc fruit and short month
later pop-cyed Yale crew un-
defeated in five years Of varsity and
Olympic competition saw sturdy
and sophomore Princeton shell zip
by them in the placid waters Of Lake
Carnegie.
Students Were Amazed
We happened to be visiting Prince
ton that sunny May afternoon. The
victory Of the Tiger was SO uncx.
pccted and the students were so
shocked at the amazing finish they
did not loose concerted yell until
the dripping shells were placed on
the boathouse racks.
When Washington lost to Califor
MIA the first comment relative to the
future of the crew was that it might
not come to Poughkeepsic for the
annual race. The Rusty Callow
squad, however, had barely returned
home when successful campaign
was launched to raise $4,000, the
price needed to ship the boatload Of
collegiateA to the Hudson and west
again.
Rusty has been working his head
off in the meantime reinforcing his
eipht with the strength needed not
only to defeat California, which will
be sweet revenge on its own account.
hut to defeat the Navy, which is the
paramount ambition of Washington
more than anything else.
The Huskies are going to defend
their title--and, pardonably, how!
Plenty Of Competition
California has been improving also
and II both Of the western crews
come east with stamina enough to
give the Navy a fight there will be
triangular competition never yet
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began. And if there is an eastern
crew other than the Middies powerful
enough to give Washington and Cali
fornia a battle and, incidentally, to
poster the Annapolis speedsters, this
little affair this June is going to
be one merry brawl.
Coach Chuck Logg tells ME there
will be change in the course Of
the Hudson because bridge that is
being built must have it's foundation
piers even though they are in the
way of college navigation.
There are always eddies around
the piers Of large bridges. If the
course happens to be one in which
it is, necessary that the piers and
bridges must be there, as on the
Thames, the crews simply have to
buckle down and trust to their shout
ders and backs.
Changes Proposed
For the sake of time and mutual
fairness, Logg wisely points out that
the further any course can be laid
from piers and such things, the bet
ter. 1t is easy enough to 90 up the
Hudson and find good water for
rowing. Krum's Elbow must be
rounded now and it would not be any
hardship il the lead to the turn were
made longer than II is at present.
The finish is plenty far enough
Town the river, it says 1t is q mile |
from the railroad bridge and If it is
possible not to make any change ut
The finish it will be well for the race
~ every way. It wouldn't hurt in
The least if the finish we're q half
mile closer to the bridge. There
could not possibly be any more con-
yestion on shore and it wpuld reduce
rather tough walk! over the rail
road ties and rock ballast to try to.
get to the obssryAtlan train.
all a. ~ 81. sssfettaI time APP
hesitate. to chooss IL winner. There
seems to- be no 0utstanding sure
shot and with an open race like that.
he dslieht 81. every sports lover, you
AN expect anything. And that, in
short. is what you are liable to see !!
happen.
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