The Washington times., 1937-06-22
100000 TO Watch
Poughkeepsie
Regatta Today
BY PAT ROBINSON

international News Sports Writer)
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June
22.-Seven perfectly conditioned
college crews today await the gun
that will send them off on four
heart-teasing, back-breaking miles
that will decide the rowing supre-
macy of the nation.
AS the sun starts to dip behind
Krum Elbow on the west bank Of
the historic old Hudson, the eight
cared shells of Navy, Syracuse,
Washington, Wisconsin, Column
bia, California and Cornell, will
line up in that order from the
west bank, the gun will bark. So
blades will dip as one and the clas-
sic of the Hudson will be on again.
Probably more than 100000
spectators will line the banks,
travel the observation trains or
crowd the rails of river craft to
watch this seth renewal Of the in
tercollegiate rowing association
classic.
A record fleet Of excursion
steamers, yachts, motor boats, U.
S. cutters and deStroyerS will fol
low the race.
Washington Favored
Among the experts Washing
ton, with the same men who
rowed to a national and olympic
championship last year, is
favored to retain its title. But
unbeaten Navy, fully as tall and
rangy as the boys from the far
northwest, was not without its
large following today.
Many believe Bucky Walsh's
smooth-rowing and powerful
middies have what it takes to
defeat the huskies. The middies
have met every test through the
sprint season against the pick Of
the east.
Those who favor the Navy also
point to the slight edge the Navy
may hold in having the inside
lane but the difference, If any,
must be slight for Washington
also is close in at the No. 3 lane.
KY Ebright, coach of the Cali
fornia crew which is the third
choice of the rivermeu, insists
Navy is greatly overrated and
will be lucky to finish fourth.
He comedies the race to Wash
ington by at least two lengths.
However, neither AL Ulbrickson,
Washington'S coach, nor any
other expert, is as confident Of the
outcome as Ebright processes to
be. They foresee a bitter battle
all the way, and Don Hume. ia
nous stroke of the Washington
crew, may need all the luck the
So bill he is wearing in the sole OF
his shoe can bring him.
May Fine Itself
California has been q diSap.
pointment in recent weeks but
may find itself under the stress
of competition. Wisconsin, max
ing it's first appearance on the
river in several years, has not hao
enough stiff competition, but
promises not to trail the field.
Cornell has the biggest crew or
the river. The big Red shell hai
shown marked improvement in it,
workouts but just how good 1t /:
will not be known until the t1rs'
long mile is over.
Syracuse, too, is something o!
a mystery. It might finish any
where from third to seventh but
old Pop Ten Eyck never boated
poor crew and it may be takeE
for granted they will give every
thing they have.
Columbia is too light for thil
kind of competition and probably
will have to take the back waSl
of all of them.
That's the set-up for the varsit!
race, and given the clear day thu
weather man has promised, and
fairly smooth river, it should prove
to be one of the most stirring il
the long history of the race.
The freshman race which start
at 8 o'clock (E.D.S.T0 will brini
Together Syracuse, Columbia
washington, Cornell, California
lsnd Navy, over a two-mile course
The experts look on this as a Wild
op'n affair. The Jayvee race
staring at 4 o'clock, is tabled q
chch for Washington, agains
CorneI and Navy.
But EAST experience has repeat
edly proved there is no such thini
as a cincL in rowing. A submerged
tomato crate, a log, broken oar
almost anSthing can and hai