Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-11
SHOWS FINE SPEED
AGAINST MARIETTA
Time Remarkable and Makes
Coast Crew Stand Out.
Losers Also Fast.

n YEW YORK, June II (C.P.A)
~ If one compares Univer-
Y sity of Washington'S time
in defeating Marietta over
the two-mile course on the Ohio
River this week with times made
on the two-mile route in regattaS
rowed by various Poughkeepsle
Fights to date, the Huskies will
stand out as mighty dangerous
boatload of sweepSwingers.
In beating the Ohioans, Washington
was clicked at 500 for the two miles,
incidentally Marietta turned in nifty
800. In the cases OF both Fights that
is mighty fast going Conditions must
have been extremely favorable, although
there is no report of wind, adverse or
otherwise.
Cornell won her splendid victory over
Yale and Princeton on the two-nile
Housatonic River course at Derby
Conn. By two lengths over the Ellis and
five lengths over the Tigers. Her time
was 1914 more than two minutes
slower than Washington's time out in
Ohio
Syracuse Does Well.
Syracuse in beating the Navy on the
Severn did the Henley route, mile
and e-sixteenths, in 1922. At this
rate, had the race gone to two miles,
Syracuse's time would not have been
so good as WashiHgton's. Harvard will
not row at Poughkeepsie, but 1t is in
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wind conditions on the Schuylktll she
defeated Navy and Penn. taking SOL to
do the mile and half course. Navy
cid the mile and half in S:05.3 and
Pennsylvania in 1928.
Of all the Poughkeepsie Fights. Co.
lrr.bia has come nearest to the Husky
showing by turning in 1880 for the
nile and three-Quarters on the Harlem
River.
An interesting recollection. however,
Is that regatta on the Schuylkill in
which, in the junior varsity event-won
By Harvard in 822-this Marietta Col
lege e.gh. finished third in the time Of
3:35 over a mile and half course. So
the ambitious Buckeyes learned a lot
in their regatta at Philadelphia, it
would appear. Maybe We shall be see
ing them at Poughkeepsie some day.
Fine Thing for Rowing.
It was great for rowing to have that
regatta on midland river. Small
doubt it will prove very stimulating.
Wisconsin has long stood alone as the
sponsor of Middle Western sweep
swinging and through her participation
in the great national regatta on the
Hudson has gained widespread adver-
tising-whatever that may be worth.
In any case, institutions seem to think
that intersection publicity is by no
means an evil: in fact IN a great ma
jority of opinion, quite the reverse. So
it is doubtful if Marietta's very game
and sportsmanlike entry into aquaticS
Will be permitted long to stand as the
sole example of sporting spirit among
inst:tu ions situated on midland rivers.
When Washington, due today at her
camp en- the Hudson. arrives at Pough-
keepsie, all the crews which will start
down river in the great regatta next
Tuesday will be in quarters on the lord
ly stream. There never has been I'M
certainty so great involving such a
large number of crews as this year.
Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse, Washing
ton. all seem to have excellent chances
of winning. while Navy and California
are dark horses of dangerous possibili-
ties. The outlook is for one of the
greatest races ever rowed on the broad
bosom of the Hudson.