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Show oo WOMEN IE11S PLAYERS WILL TANGLE AGAM Rowing Is the Mystery Sport Says Veteran Writer, Walter Camp By WALTLR C YMP (Copyright 1 a L' 1 . by The Standard-i Standard-i ixamlner NEW YORK', June i. Cable ad-Vlcei ad-Vlcei on hand today reveal the fact thai i"i -"in" time tin British tennis authorities were perplexed by the question whether or not to have Mrs Mulla Bjuroted Blallory and Suzanne Lenslen meet at Wimbledon on the basis of a seeded draw In this way a final match between the two would he assured with no chance of ono or the other dropping I.v the wayside In the process of playing there Mow however, it has been decided to let the two women t k their chances. Statements by both women which have come- to hand would Indicate a growing tendency of f eling he'.-vi en the two which will give their match some added elements of the spectacular spectac-ular if they meet. Rowing Is the sport of mystery Even that veteran. Courtney, who at one time led u little astray, while he had a niarvelonsl v finished and polished pol-ished stroke, found when he came to the race that there was no power in it. riast year ecn Rice, one of the must experienced of our coaches, was surprised sur-prised to find that a crew, rowing well, had In the last two weeks over polished pol-ished until it lost Its speed This year at Poutfhkei-psle we shall sec all kinds of cvcw Greal Interest now seems to be centering upon the .Navy and Cornell. The Pacific coast is an unknown quscnlty, Columbia i good better thr.n last year. In (act, all the crews look belter, Cornell In hard work Bhowod the most finished form, of any of them. The Navy Is a lit t-K- rougher but Is a powerful veteran vet-eran crew, which means that they can pull together even when they push the stroke up. They will undoubtedly go out to t i k r- iio- lead ami keep it. The question Is can Cornell, with its greuter conservation ( energy keep near enough to have thai conservation till in the last mile" The coast crews that have come on California for instance, in-stance, last year has tremendous power Still at this writing, It looks ae If the Navy has a good chance to repeat Its victory of last year. The New lAjndon race, which lacking lack-ing In flavor on account of the defeats de-feats suffered by the Yale and Harvard Har-vard crews, will lose none of Its old prestige. The partisan feeling Is high and both crews and coaches are now determined to make their season a success, after the various defeats, by a victory OVei tholr main rival. For this reason, the race will be one of intense feeling More than that, it Is an undoubted un-doubted fact that the two crews will Improve between now and the day of the regatta. oo |