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Show STILL TALK OF REGATTAS Difference of Opinion Is Heard in New York Regarding the Merits of the Various Teams Competing Recently at New London or Poughkeepsie New York. July 5 Although shell:; and sweeps are already collecting dust on boat house racks the sensational regattas which closed the arslty rowing season are still a topic of conversation con-versation and controvcrscy where university un-iversity men gather. Regardless of whether it Is the races at New London Lon-don or Poughkeepsie that are reviewed re-viewed tlure appears to be more than the usual difference of opinion relative rela-tive to the merits and. methods of th various crews and coaches and the outlook for the season to come Paradoxical as it may seem there Is .1 complaint that there is not enough racing on the Thames and too much on the Hudson. The keen rivalry at the intercollegiate intercolle-giate regatta has led to several statements state-ments which in a roundabout way intimate in-timate that the best crew In the "varsity "var-sity race did not win The explanations explana-tions that Cornell and Columbia fought so bitterly for supermar-y that they were not able to answer the challenge of Syracuse. Washington and Wisconsin, has stirred up con siderable reeling among the graduates grad-uates of these universities, and not without reason In the usual course of sporting competition the winner ol an event is supposed to represent the best individual or team in the contest. con-test. In the case of the Poughkeepsie race, however, a lengthy explanation appears necessary to account for the defeat of Cornell and the fading away of Columbia It Is perfectly true thai olumlua s-t n terrifn pace and Cornell rowed at top speed In order to keep abreast, while three of the other four eights, pursuing a saner course, rowed some two lengths in the rear until time for the crucial spurt. It should not be overlooked, however, that Syracuse, Washington and Wisconsin were nil within Link ing distance of the leaders and husbanded hus-banded their strength until the proper prop-er time for the final effort. This generalship which In rowing is equivalent to team work in football, foot-ball, baseball and Iacr06.se, is part of the sceheme of the sport. Because the two crews representing universities universi-ties which usually shine at Poughkeepsie, Pough-keepsie, tailed to follow these tactics end did not, on the other hand, have the stamina to finish under the sprinting campaign adopted, is no reflection re-flection on the victory of Syracuse. In the interests of amateur sport It Is gratifying to note that Columbia and Cornell men closely connected with the crews and regalta, refrained from voicing these sentiments Those forecasters fore-casters whose selections were so badly bad-ly upset should follow suit unless they can 6ecure from the board ol stewards stew-ards the right to disqualify crews which occasionally break the monotony monot-ony at Poughkeepsie by defeating Coach Courtney s greai row ing combinations com-binations Incidentally It can be stated that ihe 1914 regatta will witness a number of changes in both rowing tactici methods and coaching. It the veteran oarsmen of the universities most interested, in-terested, are to be believed th.-ie will be no four-mile sprint next year In fact, It Is likely that the Hrsl two miles of the varsity race will be more or 'ess of a loaf, so ezpllct and forceful force-ful will the coaches' instructions be on this point. The elimination of the four-oared varsity crew in favor of Junior eights will also find favor. This change provides places for four additional oarsmen not quite varsity type yet worthy of a place on the regatta program pro-gram It will also do away with the racing shells without coxswains which have caused accidents and disputes for years At least one new coach will be en on the Hudson for Pennsylvania has secured Vivian Nlchalls to succeed Kills Ward as rowing coach Nlchalls, who has signed a three-year contra, t. will take charge of the Quaker crew candidates next autumn He is one or England's mon famous oarsmen, pelng a member of the Leander Rov -ig club of London, an oxford university uni-versity graduate and former holder of! the Diamond Sculls an, v,nfield Sculls. With his brother. Gu) Nlchalls, Nlch-alls, he won the Henlev four-oared championship for several ears aad ; 3RTr-r?SsiBPMIIWBWBSBs)S I lenge cup races. As coach of the De-! De-! trolt Rowing club slneo 1909 he has I been most successful In turning out winning crews which use a stroke-combining stroke-combining the best features ofEng-lish ofEng-lish ami American watermanship I Also a Pacific coast crew can be) cxpecied to cross the continent for th" ! 1914 regatta, for Coach Conlbear 01" Washington stated after the races that I should the Seattle oarsmen win the j Pacific coast championship they would enter the Hudson race next vear. Le- land Stanford adopted the same plan , In 1912, and the University of California Cali-fornia stands ready to finance such a trip should ht Berkeley oarsmen succeed In defeating both Washington Washing-ton and Stanford. The outlook for rowing at New London Is not so bright. vLate reports re-ports from New Haven intimate that the, English coaching system will be continued next season and that llar-court llar-court Gold, the Oxford university oarsman, will return to assist In the work This report has not found favor with a number of old Yale grads, and Harvard men are beginning to grumble at 'he lack of competition afforded In recent years by Yale crews. The situation was summed up as follows by a Harvard alumnus after the sweep of the Thames on June 20. I know It sounds like heresy." he said, "but I am getting tired of these one-sided races. For more than five years now I have been spending good money going to New London to witness a one-mile I iHce luuunvu rt 1 111 vtr iiim. inuvr- slon "Harvard men never know the real calibre of their crew since It Is an easy task to look like a winner when your opponents are wallowing hopelessly hope-lessly lengths in the rear. The Yale situation has not been clarified by the Importing of English coaches, and it will take nt least two years more to secure a satisfactory line on the rowing system now being tried at I New Haven Like all loyal Harvard j men I like to see Harvard teams win. but I want to see them win in rcall teat and struggle. I have heard It ! whispered that Princeton Is beginning I to consider the possibility of entering enter-ing a freshman crew at Poughkeepsie and I should like to see what we could do In a four-mile row on the Hudson I know that our crews are good crews but the recent races at New Ion-don Ion-don have been too essy to show them 1 at their best The leading marksmen of the world are already hcadiug for the United I States in order to participate in me International shooting tournament at Camp Perry. Ohio. September 1-9. One I of the most formidable teams Is that j which will represent Switzerland It was at first thought that the entry ' would have to be canceled, but monetary mon-etary difficulties having been overcome, over-come, a team of the best Swiss marksmen marks-men under the captaincy of M. Myer de Stadelhofen. a Geneva lawyer, and a splendid shot, will sail for New York in August to take part in the Camp Perry tournament The team is the best that Switzerland Switzer-land can send, and the wagering there Is three to one that it will win Out of sixteen International meetings during dur-ing the last decade Switzerland has won fifteen times and was second once by only a few points. 00 |