TIGER OARSMEN COMMENCE SPRING WORK NEXT WEEK

The Princeton crew will start work on Lake Carnegie next week, if the present warm weather continues, and at that time the first tentative eights of the season will be formed by Coach John Fitzpatrick. Thus far the rowing has been done entirely on machines, and the men have not reported at any one time.

As in all other colleges that will take up rowing this year, Princeton is lacking in promising material for a crew. A majority of the upperclassmen have left college for Government service, and the sophomore candidates are handicapped by the fact that rowing was discontinued last spring, after the declaration of war. Roche, who has been elected to captain the eight, is the only man of much experience on the squad, and even he has never rowed in a varsity boat. He stroked his freshman crew and occupied a position in the second eight during the two subsequent seasons. Paxton, a member of the junior class, is the most likely candidate for the position of stroke-oar. He stroked his freshman crew and was in the second shell last season. Of the other men, the most promising candidates are Walters, Duncan, Gardner, Taylor and Wintersten, all of whom have had experience on class eights.

Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, hitherto faculty coach at Princeton, has left his duties there to take a position as physical director at Camp Wheeler, in Macon, Ga.; but he will continue in an advisory capacity to the eight this spring. Fitzpatrick, his successor, is well qualified to coach the candidates in oarsmanship and to direct their training, but in matters of judgment, such as the final choice of men for the first boat, Dr. Spaeth will be consulted.