Evening star., 1941-06-22
Bears Crew Betters
Near-Record Test,
Coach Admits
Huskies Still Favored,
However; Cornell Boot
Deemed Dark Horse
BY BILL BONI,
A P Sports Writer.


It or not-and they don't like it
the 4-mile race of the annual Inter-
collegiate Rowing Association re-
gatta on the Hudson has become
strictly a proposition of Washington
or California against the field.
Next Wednesdays renewal, 44th
in the series, will be no exception.
Washington is lit" this time, favor
ite to repeat its 1910 victory and
to run the Washington-C California
record to four triumphs each in the
last nine years. To make matters
worse for the East, which, after ALL
did think up this regatta, California
boosted its rating as second choice
considerably by 4-mile time trial
this morning.
The Golden Bears, rowing up
stream over the same miles on
which they will race Washington
and seven other starters downstream
on Wednesday, turned in what
Coach Carroll (Kentucky) Ebright
said was clocking of about 19
minutes 80 seconds To that he
added rider that the workout was
better than the one we had
Wednesday"
Huskies Still Crew to Beat.
The rider was what interested his
fellow coaches, for they had clocked
California on Wednesday in 18:48,
only 36 seconds over the course rec
ord. If California was better" to-
day, they argued, then Ebright
really must have something, and
perhaps considerably more than was
roundly beaten by Washington at
3 miles in April, when the Huskies
shattered all recods for the Oak
land (CalifD esturary course.
Still, Washington is looked on as
the boat to beat, and the attitude
Of the Huskies and their coach. AL
Ulbrickson, does little to diSpel that
regard. While the other navies were
having long workouts this morning,
Washington went out for only a
Self-satiSfied IS minutes, and Ul-
Erickson declared that yesterdays
1913 upstream time trial would be
his boatload'S first and last.
If any crew should turn up as
dark horse" the favorite candidate
of the moment is Cornell, which
trailed Washington by only half
length last June and then was a
disappointment in its sprint races
this year. The Big Red, living up
to its name by outweighing even
Washington. has been improving
steadily since it got on the Hudson,
and this morning covered the course
In 1912.
Cornell Has Speedy Trial.
The time was the fastest any
crew has admitted to, if not the fast
est that's been rumored. and in hit
ting it Cornell spotted its jayvee
boat half a length on the last three
miles and beat them by the same
margin.
OF the other starters, Princeton
might be a contender under proper
conditions, Rutgers will be in there
trying in its Poughkeepsie debut,
Syracuse and Columbia should fin
ish in the middle somewhere, and
M. I. T. and Wisconsin will be 60
ing along strictly for the experience.
Rutgers and Princeton had time
trials late in the afternoon when
the blazing heat of the sun had
abated somewhat. Neither would
give out any time, but both coaches,
Charles (Chuck) Logg Of Rutgers
and Fred Spuhn of Princeton, said
they were satisfied.
Logg said Rutgers time was
"fair' for a downstream trial on
which his boat ran into swells and
a headwind, but had favoring
tide. Princeton also roWed down.
stream and with this test both var
sites virtually completed the heav-
lest part of their practice.
Wisconsin Gets Test Today.
Syracuse, which rowed 19 min
utes this morning and at that stage
appeared to be about 220 yards
short of 4 miles. did not go out
again in the afternoon, and Wash
ington, California, Cornell and Wis
conSin had light drills. M. I. T.,
which did not arrive until late yes
terday afternoon, put in consider
able mileage just getting "the feeP'
OF the river.
Wisconsin, lightest of the varSities
at an average of 1882 pounds to
Cornell's 1841a, will have time
trial tomorrow afternoon. A Wis
itor at the Badger camp was heavy
weight boxing contender Lou Nova,
who tomorrow hopes to get work.
out pulling an oar in the Wiscon-
sin substitute boat.
Coach Sanford announced one
change in the Cornell boating after
the morning time trial, bringing up
Robert Harley of Westfield, N. j.,
to replace John Perry of Ithaca,
N. Y. in the No. slide. Both are
seniors.
Coach Alan Walz of Wisconsin
devoted considerable attention to
his heavy, rangy freshman crew,
considered a distinct threat in the
2-mile yearling race. The Syracuse
freshmen also are rated contenders,
particularly after going 2 miles this
morning in better than $50, Cor
nell's frosh hit just about $50 in
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