Show ONE SPORT THAT I NOT PAY Annual Deficit of the College Crews Well in the Thousands No university has bas yet found a means of or making a 8 profit from rowing or even een beginning to pay expenses This is du duto due dua duato to the difficulty of receipts I from spectators Inasmuch as boat races are held on rivers and require courses of from two to three miles in length le fth grand grandstands grandstands grandstands stands are out of the question There Therefore Therefore fore the only available method of charging chargIng charging ing admission son is by means mean of observation trains traine tra l though these are run more for the profit of the railroads than the university athletic associations Most t of the university crews depend upon subscriptions for the expenses of their crews Between n subscriptions and observation ob trains Yale Cornell and Har liar Harvard Harvard vard yard each year secure a R tidy sum At Pennsylvania subscriptions are forbidden so that the Quaker expenses are pra practically practically all deficit Four Foul Lose Yale expenditures are the heaviest t tit it costing o Ung the blue almost twice e as much for maintenance of her crews as all asit asit it does the other universities There are two Items alone which bring brio row rowing rowIng rowing ing expenses up to more than O Al AI Although Although though the crew training table is oper opel operated operated as 8 are art those for fot other sports the Ute table at New Haven costs tt On top of this thit the association lies has to bear r all the expenses of the training table at New London which for about four we amounts to On tops tope of this It ItCo costs Co ts Yale for the salaries of coaches and others connected with the crew I It is ill easily easil seen Ken from this why crews are so expensive exp In connection it itis Itis is II a bit hit odd that Cornell with the best crews In the country conduct rowing rowin at lit atthe atthe the least expense and at lees less than half naif the cost at Yale Cornell also al o in raising the most money for the main maintenance maintenance of her crews |