Gene Sarazen and Willie Hunter.
Special Interest attaches to the first
YALE AND NAVY OARSMEN
MAY MEET IN REGATTAS
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BY LAWRENCE PERRY.
NEW YORK, July 6.— Plans of Edward Leader, the Yale rowing?
coach, ‘and the* Navy rowing authorities to bring Yale and the
* Navy together in regattas will be applauded by those who are
interested in seeing championship questions in various sports worked out.
There is no reason to suppose that next year, or the year after
—when the matter of selecting am Olympic eight will be on the tapis—
Yale and the Navy will not be well up among the leaders of rowing.
The EUe have had exceptional
crews in the peat four years, and
under the Leader regime may be ex
pected to continue to be represented
by outstanding eights. So with the
Navy.
Thera Is no likelihood, however,
that if regattas are arranged for the
future the crews will meet In any
race of over two miles. The long dis
tance events are rowed at Pough
keepsie and at New London. In any
•vent, an eight-oar crew that defeats
another in a two-mile race Is most
likely to repeat that victory over the
longer route. An occasional excep
tion has been noted, but in a vast
majority of Instances it works out
in this way.
