1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 25freshman crew in 1903. He is also a member of the NewYork Athletic Club crew. George Norris, '07, was the bowin Columbia's 'varsity four. He is a finished oarsman andhad his first experience at bow in the 1904 freshman crew atPoughkeepsie. Norris is expected to win a seat in the premiereight next summer. A third veteran oarsman to row forColumbia is Edwin Hoyt Updike, '06, law, who sat behindNorris at number 2 in the Columbia four. Last year Bro.Updike was prevented from rowing on account of illness. In1903 he stroked the 'varsity four at Poughkeepsie and theyear before he rowed at bow in the same boat. He hastherefore rowed in three of the four seats in this boat in theHudson races. During 1903 Bro. Updike stroked the second'varsity crew which met Cornell and Pennsylvania.The fourth Phi to appear on the water was John HenryYork, '06, a substitute for the Pennsylvania 'varsity four.Bro. York was the Pennsylvania stroke in the race betweenthe "Gentlemen's Fours" on the day before the principalraces. He brought his crew across the finish line ahead ofthe boats from Cornell and Columbia.The fraternity was well represented by former oarsmen ofnote and by the officials at the regatta. Of the latter Bro.Charles Sower Potts, '85, was Pennsylvania's judge at thefinish, a distinction which has fallen to his lot for many years.Bro. Thomas Hill Low, '03, was the representative of Syracuseon the referee's boat. The race course was well clearedand piloted by United States revenue cutters under the commandof Bro. Charles Albert McAllister, Cornell, '87, thechief engineer of the United States revenue cutter service.Prof. William Frederick Durand, Lansing, '90, formerly thehead of rowing affairs at Cornell, was on hand, and Bro.Frederick Arthur Goetze, Columbia, '95, the superintendentof buildings and grounds at Columbia University, saw' theraces from the yachts Alert and Calumet.Among the former oarsmen seen at the regatta were RolandPearce Jackson, captain of the Columbia'varsity crew in 1902;John Samuel Maeder, captain of the Columbia 'varsity crewin 1904; William Blyler Kugler, who rowed in his freshmaneight and in the Cornell second 'varsity; Clarence BlylerKugler, another former Cornell oarsman, who entertained thePhis royally on his motor yacht Ptiscilla during the entire regattaweek; Phillipe Fazio Ballinger, who rowed at Ithaca forfouryearsand satat number 6 in the 1904'varsity crew; HowardE. Pepper, the captain and stroke oar in the Pennsylvania