Fast Rowing of Cornell Navy Brings Crew Major Opposition

Among the crews that the varsity will have to face, the two main contenders will be Navy and Cornell. Both of these crews have given indications of real potentialities in recent races.

Last Saturday the Cornell crew rowed to a victory over Syracuse and M.I.T. The race was run over a short course and would not mean a great deal one way or the other, except that M.I.T. was left six lengths behind at the finish Line. The Harvard crew only registered six lengths itself against Technology.

The Big Red have been having a hard time smoothing out their stroke according to the Cornell Daily Sun, but a wealth of good material puts them in live in a successful season. Most of the defeats under which the Cornell eight is laboring, such as poor timing and ragged control of the slides, are sings of an early season crew, and they can soon be ironed out.

Jim Young, last year's stroke of the Big Red, has been moved back to six. This would not be so remarkable but for the fact that he is light and therefore a strange man to put at six.

Turning to Navy we see a crew that successfully understroked the Princeton varsity by as many as four beats and still took them by three quarters of a length. With their usual long power stroke they had little trouble with Princeton. However, too much credit cannot be given to the Middies, because the Princeton crew has neither the material nor the ability to be placed among the leading contenders for the rewing title of the East. In trials they have been taken by the Tiger freshmen.

The Yale varsity eight is another crew which is more potential than in the running. Made up without any seniors, there are a great many wrinkles in the crew that will take time to removes. Stroked by last year's freshman stroke, John Blair, the crew is more of a threat for next year than this.

Meanwhile out on the Charles, the varsity has by no means been taking it easy doing the past raceless week. It has really made progress in smoothing out the boat. With almost perfect catching in the land race, Walt Kernan has improved varsity. Now there is only a question of finishing before the varsity will be able to meet any crew in the East.