People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — REPRESENTATIVES OF YALE AT HENLEY (ENGLAND) REGATTA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REPRESENTATIVES OF YALE AT HENLEY (ENGLAND) REGATTA.

The ’Varsity crew that will represent Tale at the Henley regatta will not make the mistake of the Cornell crew and win the race with their lungs before they get into their boat, but will keep their enthusiasm well in hand until the regatta is at an end. What is most feared by the crew is the odd course It will be called upon to row over. The course is familiar to all the English crews, and the coxswain will be the most important man in the American boat. Whether the Yale coxswain will be able in the eighteen days that will be allotted to him for practice to become sufficiently familiar with the curves in the course of the Thames is the question that is uppermost in the minds of

the Yale men. Will he be able to steer the boat at the maximum speed and stroke? Will it be possible for him to take a point of vantage and avoid a foul? Has he the skill to outwit the more experienced coxswains of the English crews? If then, argue the friends of Yale, the coxswain be able to hold his own in English waters, if the Bob Cook stroke is as good as it is believed to be, and if the crew is not affected by the climate, it will become simply a question of who are the best men. It is hoped that 'S’ale will avoid some of the misfortunes that befell Cornell; at least her men will not be overtrained as were Cornell’s. Captain Treadway has done all in his power to bring his

crew up to the highest standard of perfection, and if Yale is badly beaten in the Henley regatta it will not be his fault. The crew is made up as follows: Stroke, George Langford, 20 years, 1J5% pounds, 6 feet % inch; No. 7, Ralph B. Treadway, 22 years, 170 pounds, 5 feet 11% inches; No. 6, John Longacre, 22 years, 175 pounds, 5 feet 11 inches; No. 5, Philip H. Bailey, 22 years 9 months,-180 pounds; No. 4, James O. Rodgers, 21 years, 178% pounds, 5 feet 11% indies; No. 3, William M. Beard, 20 years, 1*62% pounds, 5 feet 8% inches; No. 2, Alexander Brown, 23 years, 170 pounds, 6 feet % inch; No. 1, James H. Simpson, 22 years, 160 pounds, 5 feet 11 Inches; coxswain, C. U. Clark.