The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-20
CREW AT YALE MODELLED FROM
 RAW MATERIAL
Only Veteran at Stroke; Floods Retard Early
 Conditioning
BY H. H. sHERBURNE

United Press Stan Correspondent
 New Haven, April 20-(UP)-Be- set with ineiigibles, knee injuries, and poor rowing conditions due to the heavy spring floods, the Yale varsity has been rowing with the first boat during the daily double drills through which Coach Ed Leader has been sending his men since they returned to New Haven after spring vacation. Jim Castle, of Honolulu, captain and stroke, occupies his old position, but the rest of the boat is composed of men who have not had varsity ex. perience.
 Leighton Mccartney, Q senior who has been boated at bow, rowed with the varsity in one sprint race last spring, but the others have never before risen higher than the Junior Varsity. Bob Belknap, who counted so heavily in last years crew vic- tories and who has been one of Coach Ed Leaders mainstays for two years, has been out with a bad knee for more than 8 month. Coaches have been told by physi- clans that his return to the crew this year is extremely doubtful"
 In addition to the threatened loss of Belknap, the 1936 crew will take to the water without the ser- vices of five first-boat men who were graduated last June. Two sophomores, Bill Brown and Bur- ton Mclean, who showed up well last spring with the cub heavies, have been pushed forward to places o nthe first shell. Despite lack of experience they have man. aged to hold their own with the more seasoned competition.
 "The freshmen had an out standing bunch of rowers last year." Leader said, land more than two sophomores should be in the first and second boats now. It just happens that scholastic in- eligibility keeps the entire four men of last springs starboard side out of the boats this year."
 The university boats are not the only victims fo a jinx. The jayvee 150-pound crew faces prospects of losing Capt. Dwight Robertson for the season. He has been barred because of overweight.
 And to top off all these breaks" lamented Leader, "the cold wea- ther has prevented us from get ting out on the water for chance to start correcting some green faults"
 Two daily practice sessions have been ordered for all crews on the Housatonic at Derby under direc- tion of Coaches Leader, Grant, Spuhn, and Butler. Don Grant, coach of the freshman candidates, set his men for a race against Kent School on the Housatonic at Kent on Saturday, April 18, which they won by four lengths. The Varsity coaches have a week longer before the first con- test, the Rowe Memorial Regatta at Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, between Yale, M. I. T., and Syra- cuse being scheduled for Satur- day, April 25.
 The complete Yale schedule:
 April 25 Rowe Memorial Re- gatta, Lake Quinsigamond (M. I. T., Syracuse and Yale). Varsity, 150-pound, and Junior Varsity.
 May 2 - Derby Day Regatta, Derby (Columbia, Penn, Yale). Varsity, 150-pound, junior varsity, and freshmen.
 May 9--At Derby, Second Var sity, 150-pound, and freshmen 15o-pound with Kent School; 3rd and the varsity with Rutgers.
 May 16-At Princeton (Cornell, Princeton, Yale). Varsity, junior varsity and freshmen; 150-pound with Princeton, Harvard, and Yale.
 May 30 - At Philadelphia. 150- pound with Cornell, Penn, Colum- bia, Yale.
 June 19-At New London, Har- yard. Varsity, freshmen and junior varsity.