Show ii I ALL IMPORTANT SPORTS FROM EVERYWHERE PRINCETON IS UP AT FRONT Her Crew First to Get Upon the Water for Training for forthe forthe the Season 0 PENNSYLVANIA DOES WELL 0 Has Best Lot of Oarsmen It Has Had in Some Years BY DY MANHATTAN Republican Special Service New York Feb 26 26 Princeton hits luCs already beaten In aquatic records this season leason Her crew wa was tho the first the thc water on Carnegie lal lake e Is freo treo of or Ice iceS ice and taking advantage or the recent mild 0 weather eather Coach C. C S. S Titus who vho has been instructing a squad ot of over sixty men o on the rowing machines at the tho p gymnasium put two J I crews through J preliminary work worl on the machines and then sent them on a jog down to tho the lake a lake a distance of oC a n. mile mile and and there thc they launched two of ot tho the eight- eight oared shells shells- Captain Armour stroked one ono of ot the crews If It weather permits tho the same program program pro pro- gram will bo be followed ed each day Coach CoachI I Titus believes tho Jog to the lake will k develop the wind of ot tho the candidates as ns tho paths lead through somo rough going 0 It Is still possible that Titus if Ie he finds that his crew develops well enough will send end a n. Princeton varsity crew to tho the big races this season though it Is ia most probable he will wait alt until next year rear They now say that Ellis EIlI Ward ard Is playing POSSum and that th tho re ity of ot Pennsylvania has a better better better-b bunch c or oarsmen of-oarsmen oarsmen than it has had In several years Early reports made It appear that tho the Quaker City watermen were a rum lot hot and that tho university V lied had not a ghost of ot a chance to capture an any kind of or honors in the regatta These statements I made for a 0 purpose it is now said sald One of ot the objects it would appear was to get Princeton a 0 beginner be bo- ginner Into a match race on the tho river or elsewhere The moment the match was ns arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged Ellis Ward grinned and winked Ills his weather eather eye This is taken to mean that one Ward means to wallop Titus The latter has not been overenthusiastic over o enthusiastic about Princeton going to to the tho Hudson river regatta and oarsmen oars oars- N. 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I men have ha assumed that the tho reason for lor this Is that it is pretty hard to crack 0 f tho figurative nut up there and that the fruit is easier in tho the vicinity of ot New ew London where Yale and Harvard I havo their annual family gathering gathering- Titus is a n. foxy toxy coach and if It ho he succeeds suc sue in defeating the University of or Pennsylvania it will be no moro more than Jo le expected b by his friends But that t 0 wink or of Ellis Ward has set a n lot of or 0 0 P adherents thinking and ana i- i if A many arC aro wondering it tho the supposedly soft nott ott thing will not turn out to bo be astone a stone wall after all From Pennsylvania's last years year's crews Ballard Captain Dean Crooks Braddock Rogers Hendrie AtkIn Breitinger Townsend Tou and KirkpatrIck Kirkpatrich Kirkpat- Kirkpat I I rIck rich are left lett and these men will form tho the nucleus around which the tho red and blue crows crews mu must t bo be built bunt Of Ot tho the remainder re remainder re- re of ot tho the forty men who reported re reported ro- ro ported for tor crew work worle only sixteen have e rowed on either varsity or class crows crews and the remaining remaining- twenty four aro are newcomers in the field Held 0 Rowing flowIng is fairly well under wa way at Cornell Tho The number of ot men at work now is really more than Courtne Courtney can handle with the attending conditions Having only two sots sets of machines Inthe inthe in inthe the gymnasium sixteen men is the limit that can ho bo taken care of ot at the tho same samo time That means a D. long while to run through something like a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred or moro more men in an afternoon and do each man Justice Tho old man says that he ho would not consider four moro sets ets a n bit too much but thero is no room for tor them at present Tripling tho the number of ot machines machIne would undoubtedly double or even on triple the number of ot men that could bo be accommodated Tho Tio Philadelphia regatta and tho the 0 Harvard race coming within a week and two days das of each other this year car I will necessitate two crows crews There Is la ample amplo material for a D. good varsity crow crew but the tho second boat will cause causo trouble Of ot last years year's men available for tor thin the varsity thero there are aro four four Commodore Commodore E E. IL Clark 09 W. W A. A Backus 10 10 E. E A. A Stevens 09 and S. S Williams 10 C C. P. P Cox was the on only man lost host b by graduation graduation grad graduation grad grad- W. W Stone 10 not having entered entered entered en en- the tho university this year car while I P. P Z a Horton 09 and M M. Smith Jr 10 being In the tho civil engineering colle college col col- col- col le lege e will not be able ablo to row because of or tim tho surveying camp These two men mon cannot be used in tho the Junior varsity combination either for they have havo sat In a varsity boat Harvard Yale and Columbia are aro all allin allin allin in good shape now itow and expect to be beIn beIn In the water within a D. few days The successful completion of a project project project pro pro- which tho the alumni of ot Columbia university confidently expect will check tho the rapidly waning Interest In athletics at that Institution appears to to be bo assured It is the transformation transformation tion of South Field FJeld tho the present dilapidated dilapidated dilapi dilapi- dated athletic grounds of ot tho the Institution institution Institution tion Into an athletic arena which will bear comparison on with those of ot theother the tho other big eastern universities Wh While II 0 tho the plan plait as at present outlined will re- re luiro some years reals to complete the In Initial Initial In- In work will begin within the tho next few weel weeks s and before the close or ot the tho present college term it Is expected that Columbia will have christened led the tho now new Hold field by the playing of ot a baseball gamo game thereon and other othor appropriate cere cere- monies |