The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-07

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 Four races will be rowed to-day. reducing the field to four. Two races tomorrow and the field will be narrowed down to the two who will clash on Saturday. Who will be these two finalists? Don's ask me, buddy. Nor any of Worces- ter's 100000 or 90 inhabitants. We don't know.
 No Certainty All we know is that California. thanks to its overwhelming victory at Poughkeepsie in the intercolle- giates, Is favored to reach the final bracket and that's only guesswork. For the Poughkeepsie affair was over a four-mile course while the Olympic trials will be contested over a route that calls for 2.000- meters.
 That is just shade under a mile and a quarter, and what a whale of a difference 1t makes. California is blessed with tremend- ous power. Butthe Golden Bears may not be as effective in a sprint. Plenty of the old river dogs around here like the Penn A. C., boatload. Others favor Yale, or Syracuse. Princeton, Harvard, California Jayvees, Washington, and Columbia Grads.
 In short, it looks like an open race.
 If experience counts. then the Penn A. C. must be given the nod over California. For six of the boys from the Schuykill have been rowing as a unit since 1929. You've
 heard of crews rowing as one man l-well. these clubmen do 1t. Too,
 they are accustomed to short races; in fact, that's about the only
 kind they row.
 And don't forget, that in the
 1880 internationals on the Mouse river at Liege, Belgium, they es-
 tablished an all-time high for the 2,OOO-meter distance by going the
 route in 5:18.4. They'll never do that here, of course, for Lake Quinsigamond Is dead waetr of the deadest sort, while the Mouse Is
 blessed with a current. Harvard looks too big and strong to develop speed in such 8, short race, but after the cantabs sur prising work at New London against Yale, 1t would be foolish to cast them aside. Yale supporters insist that the Olympic course is tailor-made forthe sprinting Blue
 boatload.
 Syracuse, will send a re-vamped
 lineup out against the Penn A. C.,
 in the second heat to-day. Coach
 Teneyck has made wholesale shifts.
 Tom Lombardi, the big stroke. has
 bene placed on the bench and re-
 placed by Devois Sigfried, the | Chappie who stroked the Jayvees
 in the intercolleglates. | No Changes l Washington, still smarting from the handsome lickings admins tered by California on coast and at Poughkeepse, plans to use the same boatload that raced in the in- tercollegiates. The Cougars have shortened their stroke. | The Columbia Grads, composed
 largely of the men who won the
 natoinal title in 1929. appear ready
 to take lot, of beating. As for Princeton--well, Prince ton meets the Californians in the second race and will be ready to leave for Princeton about 6:30 o. clock. Worcester. which entertained the 1920 trials is what you. might cali agog over the race, and thou sands of spectators are certain to line the course for the races. Its free, you know. The boatings:
 California-Bow. Hall; No 2. Tower; No 3, Chandler: No 4, Jas tram; NoH5. Dunlap: No 6. Gregg: No z, Blair; stroke, Salisbury: Cox, Graham
 California Jayvee-Bow, Mathe- son, No 2, Hudgins: No 3, Demo ter; No 4. Hagen: No 5. Van Voor- l his; No 6. Mclean; No 2, Holman;