Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-07 | Page 21 | Eli and Columbia to Row on Harlem

JEll TAND AND COLUMBIA I TO ROW RO ON HARLEM Regatta Marks First Local Appearance of Blue in Generation Special Dispatch N NEW NEV EW YORK Nov 6 Yale Yale oarsmen will row on the harlem river next spring or the first time in ill more than a genera genera- j I I tion Prom a source close to Yale rowing authorities it became I known yesterday that three eights Of Old I E will race over the Speedway course in a dual regatta with Jim Jun Rice Rices Rice's s pupils at Columbia The meet neet will include varsity junior varsity and freshman events and will bring to this city the first Intercollegiate collegiate rowing event It has had III In many a year In all 1111 probability the regatta will vill be held some time in May Just pi prior lor to the Childs cup race lace which also is to be held on the for the first time in h the long h history of I the event m To- To w ew Ion its biggest In Intercollegiate rowing program program pro pro- gram it yet h hR been favored with pro pro-j records name H U. Livingston as at the last Yale Vale man to win a race on 11 the e Harlem river That was back In 1877 when in the fall regatta of the Harlem Rowing the New Haven collegian showed the way In the tle junior single sculls Since then Yale has made no official entry in any race in local waters 1 WON AVON ON LAST J RU After a lapse lapso of ix years Columbia and Yale met in a dual regatta o on the Housatonic last April It was shorts after Yale s triumph over the PennsYl shortly vania vanla oarsmen at Philadelphia Yale made a clean sweep of th the th three and 2 races with the New York collegians Continued on Page Page 8 8 I EILI r ELI LI AND COLUMBIA I e 5 f f S J Continued from from page 6 winning g all al of t them em In n convincing fashion S S f lt was this thid triple victory that boosted J Yale's rowing stock and made the Blue an arc early season favorite for forthe t the thC rowing title tithe tte of 1920 Later in the triangular regatta with and andS S Cornel Cornell Yale's hopes hopes- wih were shattered S when the Blue finished last in all al three races es In the late season races neither Yale nor Columbia figured prominently prominent prominent- ly intercollegiate events Determined to wipe out ont the sting of oJ last years year's defeat Jim Rice issued an anS S unusually early call cal for rowing candiS candidates candi candi- S S dates this f fell l. l and ald the response has been gratifying The material is so favorable that there is good prospect of Columbia reversing last seasons season's re reS result result re- re S sult unless Yale can can- car show decided improvement im Im- im- im provement 1 over its Is rowing efficiency 5 of last last spring At any rate the event eventis is ts certain to arouse grea and Yale-Columbia Yale regatta day if weather are are at all al favorable will wi dr w a a large throng to the historic course on the Harlem hs I H. H A. A TO 0 hELl i NF I I Nothing definite defnie has been decided decide as asto asto 1 to length of the course but but It is safe cafe to conclude that it will be close to a I mil mn and a half hal Officials of the New York ork Rowing association who I I held a v very ry successful Middle States States L regatta on th the Harlem on Labor day II will wil be ask d to assist in the matter matterS S of regatta arrangements which In- In elude lude proper policing of the course and andI I the removal of all al obstruction II Ti In In the Childs cup event which will willI I follow within a week or two of the Yale-Columbia Yale regatta Princeton I Pennsylvania and Columbia probably I will wil be the competing colleges There is no rul barring other colleges however how ever and at least least one more may be I I represented in the race