The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-16
Washington Huskies Feel
Sure Of Olympics But
Point For PoughkeepSie
BY JIMMY DONAHUE
NER Service Shorts Writer

Pulling the oars of Uncle Sans
shell in the 1886 Olympic Games
in Berlin next year will be this
years University of Washington
Huskies.
If you don't think so, pay up
your insurance and talk to some
of those apple growers around
Seattle. They think SO much of
their crew that the business men
have banded together in taking up
collection to send three shells to
Poughkeepsie for the collegiate re-
.gatta next month.
There is considerable founda-
ton for Washingtonians favoring
the Huskies. First, the varsity this
year is composed of those same
eight rapaging freshmen of 1894
who swept to victory in the
frosh race at Poughkeepsie. These
present sophmores are so good that
they have relegated the 1884 var
sity to the jayvee shell.
Second, they stacked up against
California's Bears in a dual con-
test early this year and those raw
freshmen, with only a years ex-
perience at the sweeps, nosed out
KY Ebright's veteran crew that
won the varsity event last year
at 'Keepsie.
Crew Powerful and Young.
Third, the squad AL Ulbrickson
coaches at Seattle is young, aver
aging only little over 10, tips the
beam at an average of $50 pounds,
and its composite height is feet
2 inches. There's plenty of pow
er in she'll pulled by eight strong,
young frames such as these figures
represent.
That power was demonstrated
during the race with California.
The Bears took a good lead at the
start, but the Huckies, keeping d
steady, powerful 3O-stroke pace,
commenced to creep up. Califor-
MIA increased the beat to 80, then
"a.
The Husky cox, George Morry,
raised his pace to 80, and even at
two strokes slower than the Bears,
his shell began to creep up. Just
before the final sprint, Morry in
creased the pace to "a, and the
Huskies pulled ahead to win by
two-fifths of second.
After that race Coach Ulbrick-
son remarked:
"All we need is training to
make crew greater than the
Californians who won the 1928
and 1882 Olympics. We have the
other three factors, speed, strength
and stamina"
or course, plenty can happen
before the Olympic selection Is
made next year. ~ 1880
The Huskies must prove their
right for consideration by taking
the Poughkeepsie classic, and to
do that they must beat Califor-
MAS crew again, as we'll as east
ern shells from Navy, Columbia,
Pennsylvania. Syracuse, Cornell,
Yale, and other institutions.
California is the big threat to
Washington's supremacy. The
Bears can be counted on to be
ready for revenge. Cagy Ky
Ebright is one of the best crew
mentors in the game, and he is
pointing his Bears to knock Ul-
brickson's hopes higher than
kite at 'Keepsie, as they did last
year, when the Husxies were IA
vorites.
Frosh Excelled "a Varsity
But Ulbrickson has a much bet
ter crew this season. Last year
his frosh shell--this seasons regu-
lars-was from three to four
lengths faster than the varsity
boat over four-mile pull, the dis
lance of the Hudson River classic.
In contrast to this, CALIFORNIA;
crew is practically the same out
fit that nosed out the Huskies'
1884 varsity at Poughkeepsie.
BY process of consulting the
signs of the zodiac, squaring the
hypotenuse of a right-angled tri-
angle. and, digging into an old
felt boot, II foliowsw that the
Bears are up against tougher
proposition on the Hudson this
year.
Once by California. the Huskies
must survive the trials next
spring. But n they can win the
Hudson race, they should take the
trials In stride.
So, ION TO Berlin" the Huskies
holler-and why not?