CORNELL CREW STARTS PRACTICE

Interest in rowing at Cornell received an incentive when a complete program of crew events was announced together with the news that Graduate Manager Berry has leased the Oaks, Cornell's historic training quarters at Highland, as the training quarters for the rowing squad which is now in training at Pough-keepsie. Coach Courtney was strongly in favor of the move in order to offer an adder spur to the leading candidates, as the Oaks have housed the Ithacan crew colony for many years.

Not for several seasons has winter crew practice at Cornell been started so early or so extensively. Already the most promising and experienced material has been segregated into "first" crews, with the result that the squad of 88 men now contains three university eights and three so-called "college-university" eights, and also two Freshman crews and two mixed Freshman and college crews.

It is the opinion that Coach Courtney will develop two eights this year, one a two-mile crew for the Yale-Princeton and University regattas, and for the junior university affair at Poughkeepsie, all of which will be two-mile races. The other will be a specially trained eight for the three mile race at Poughkeepsie. If this plan is carried out, the three-mile crew will have a longer training program than the two-mile eight, and it will not be brought up to edge until just before the squad gets to the Hudson. Courtney adopted a similar plan in 1915, and it worked out very well.