INITIAL RACES ON THAMES SCHEDULED THIS AFTERNOON

Red Top, Conn., June 20.--Coach fuller gave his crews another easy day today. University and Freshman oarsmen went out both morning and afternoons, but only for short distances, and the same program will probably be followed tomorrow.

The advance action in the annual Crimson-Blue struggle on the Thames will take place tomorrow afternoon when the Yale and Harvard combination crews and the graduate eights race over the upstream course.

The contest for graduate boats is scheduled for 5.45 over the half-mile distance with the combination crews taking the water at 5.00 over the two miles.

It is always a difficult matter to predict the outcome of the former race, since the seating order is usually not known until the last minute, and all pre-race practice is forbidden. Two years ago Yale won, but last June the Crimson graduates took the measure of their rivals by a full length.

There is little to choose between the combination eights. Both are regarded as only average crews, in contrast with 1922 when Yale had one of the best combination boats in many years and won easily by six lengths. Yale this year has the advantage of having all its men rowing the Leader stroke, while the Crimson combination, made up as it is of four University men rowing Coach Muller's stroke, and four Freshmen who till three weeks ago had been under the direction of Coach Bert Haines.