Are You Thinking About What Tomorrow Will Bring For Your Rowing? (Part 2)

Still wondering if you need to be giving some thought to possible changes in your rowing travel plans, as I mentioned in the first part of this post.

The following article was taken from the NY Times, written in 1917. Worth a read back then, and also worth a read now.

WAR MAY PREVENT COLLEGE REGATTA

Rowing Stewards Meet Tomorrow to Discuss Effect on Poughkeepsie Classic
The New York Times
March 27, 1917

The war’s effect on intercollegiate rowing in the East, and more particularly on the Poughkeepsie regatta, scheduled for June 21, will be the principal topic of discussion at a meeting of the Stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association tomorrow morning in the office of the Chairman, Charles Halsted Mapes, the Columbia Steward.

Although it was indicated unofficially last night that the Stewards in no manner wanted the impression to go broadcast that the regatta would be canceled this year positively, the possibility of no race will be discussed and other rowing plans, which are virtually held in abeyance under the war cloud, will be considered.  No official statements have issued from the three member universities represented on the Board of Stewards, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Cornell, whether athletics would be halted immediately on a declaration of a state of war by the country, but it is known that sports, and particularly the crews at Harvard and Yale would probably have to be dropped because of the number of athletes who would answer call to arms.

The Stewards tomorrow morning will also discuss the crews to be invited to compete this spring in case the regatta is held as scheduled.  None of the board would state last night whether Syracuse would get an invitation as usual, but it has been the opinion of many rowing experts for several weeks that no objection would be raised against Jim Ten Eyck’s eights when the time for considering invitation came due.
It is likely that invitations will be extended to California, Washington, and Stanford University, the three Coast crews.  In letters to The New York Times about three months ago the managements of each of these Far Western crews stated that if victorious in the Pacific Coast regatta, representation would be made at the Poughkeepsie classic.  The date of the Pacific Coast regatta has not been set definitely, but it will be help either on April 7 or April 14.

Hopefully we won’t be needing conversations like this due to the economy. However, planning now may save major headaches later.