Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-16
1880 TITLE EIGHT
/ IS ALMOST INTACT
Water Appears Likely to Be
About as Stormy as for
Race Last Year.
BY EDWARD J. NEIL,
Associated Press Sports Writer

OUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June
- l6.-Sweep swingers Of nine
universities participate in
the thirty-fourth annual in
tercollegiate championship regat-
ia this afternoon.
The crowd usually numbers
from $4,000 to 100000 by race
time, and for one day at least
each year makes Poughkeepsie a
Junior metropolis.
The oarsmen studied the swollen Hud-
son and specialized on the chances any
crew in the varsity fleet had Of catching
a mighty Cornell eight as it swoops on
the ebbtide Down four miles Ct river
from Krum Elbow to the finish line.
Old man River himself, a nasty fell
low who flies into rage in a moment
and spills the frail cedar shells all over
, the place, was one fellow TO beat and
Cornell was the other. Today both APP
peared at their peaks and the feet on
the river was ready for anything.
Conquers Foes, Conditions.
: Last year Cornell, big and powerful
breasted stormy seas TO conquer both
the river and same field that pulls to
i the starting line at pm, Eastern
standard time, this evening for the
championship varsity struggle. This
year the Ithacans haze much the same
boatload, perfecC combination OF pre-
cision and pcTer, the experts call It.
And cnce r:ore the river is acting up,
almost az badly in fact as it did in
x--@a finish
and IN 1880 when Navy swamped before
the finish line.
Outrigger aprons, specially built gun
whales and many other devices known
to the river man, who combatS rough
water, have been installed in the racing
shells to keep the river where 1t belongs
and the carsmen out OF the river.
Speaking for the board Of stewards in
charge of the regatta, Reynolds Benson,
secretary, said the races might be de-
dayed in the hopes of better water, but
tunder no circumstances would they be
postponed.
While the coaches to a man figured
Cornell was the crew to beat, four ether
Fights on their records for the season
carried the big threat to the Ithacan
supremacy. Columbia, conqueror OF a
half-dozen crews this season and sea-
worthy enough in 1929 to win in the
q decade, was rated just back of the
Cornell heavyweights.
HusiSieS Look Formidable.
The huskies of Washington are East
again with a high speed, fast stroking
crew that defeated California, and
Syracuse, second to Cornell last year,
has a light but powerful undefeated
eight.
Mike Murphy's Wisconsin varsity is
racing today for the first time and the
river experts have tabled it a strong
boatload, the outstanding dark horse
of the main event. KY EbrightS Cali
fornia Golden Bears are big and conf
dent and the best crew he has brought
to the regatta since the Olympic cham
pionship of 1928.
Navy and Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology, beaten several times through
the season, were regarded as the most
improved crews on the river. Only
Pennsylvania, a disappointment all
year. was without full quota of neu-
tral supporters.
Seven freshman crews meet in q q
mile sprint at pm, eastern standard
time, and six junior varsity Fights race
an hour later
"A good crew rows in any kind of
water" said Jim Wray, the Cornell
coach, as he squinted at time and water.
"Let 1t roar, we're ready for it,"