TIGER CREW RE-ELECTED COCHRAN

Robert Armstrong Cochran, of Maysville, Ky., was re-elected captain of the Princeton crew on Saturday. He prepared at Montclair Academy, and Princeton Prep. He stroked the eight which defeated the University crew in a two-mile race on Lake Carnegie April 20, and which won the Childs Cup at the American Henley on the Schuylkill Rover on May 13.

The excellent showing made by the Princeton crews this year has led to rumors that in the future crews would be entered in four-mile races. Dr. J. D. Spaeth, the coach of the Tiger crews, has denied this in the following statement:

Long Race Not Harmful Physically.

"So far as our policy in intercollegiate boat races is concerned, we have put ourselves on record frankly as not in the competition for four-mile honors. Some of the reasons for this grow out of our own situation in Princeton, and some have a more general application. I do not myself believe that a four-mile race involves a severer strain upon the man properly trained for such a race than a two-mile race. I have rowed all distances from a mile to four miles, and my recollection is that one-mile races were the most 'punishing.'

"Again the fact that very few colleges have four-mile courses on their home waters makes it necessary for them to spend considerable time away from home at such places as Poughkeepsie or New London; this involves the maintenance of an extensive and expensive establishment, which becomes a heavy drain on the general athletic treasury, and encourages the arrangement of 'profitable' football schedules to help defray the expenses of the crews. We believe it to be the best interests of intercollegiate boating to encourage a greater number of short races in each season between the various rowing colleges, these races to be rowed whenever possible in home waters. This ought to make for the spirit of generous sportsmanship and friendly rivalry between college men which it is one of the chief functions of intercollegiate athletics to foster."