CREW SITUATION CLEARING UP

"The solution of the intercollegiate rowing problem is slowly but surely reaching an end as one college after another announces its policy for the spring work", states Lawrence Perry, in the New York Evening Post. "Although there have been many ways of expressing it, the underlying idea in all the larger universities is the same, to shape their plans in rowing with reference to present condition and not, as it were, to buck the inevitable.

"Within a week after permission had been given for Yale to participate in intercollegiate sports, every branch of athletics has been organized and 50 men have been set to work on the rowing machines by Captain Hyatt and Professor Mather Abbott, the head coach.

"Both Yale and Princeton intend to do the boost they can with the facilities that exist in order to build up a crew, and with good sport as a guiding star, to enter as many events as is compatible with economy and the endurance of the oarsmen. The crews will probably not have a formal training table, although supervision of food will be given, and work in military science and rowing on alternate days will take care of the men's condition.

No Four-Mile Race,

"Races of a mile, two and possibly three miles will now be favored in preference to the old-fashioned four-mile racing at New London. Yale will probably use the Housatonic course this year, which will be christened in a two-mile race with Pennsylvania on May 11.

"Three members of either the first or second Yale crews last year, Captain Hyatt, Mead and Vall, are still in college.

Princeton Negotiating.

"At Princeton negotiations have already been begun with Yale and Pennsylvania in respect to races to be held on Lake Carnegie, and it is possible that Columbia may also participate. In as much as the Princeton Athletic Association is unable to offer its financial assistance to the crew, the sport will be supported by the crew candidates and the undergraduates. In the absence of Dr. Spaeth, Princeton's former faculty coach, John Fitzpatrick will have charge of that university's rowing this spring.

"With the announcement that several experienced oarsmen have reported for crew work, the outlook for Pennsylvania's varsity crew appears far more promising. Although a severe loss was incurred by the retirement of Captain Tilden, Jerauld, who rowed on the 1917 eight, O'Gorman, a member of last year's freshman crew, and Van Ginkle, an experienced oarsman, will partly offset it.

"The delay in announcement of Cornell's rowing schedule has led to the belief that that university may not be represented this spring in intercollegiate contests. Practice rowing has continued as usual, however, and crews will be put on the river as soon as the inlet is free from ice."