The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-05
ELLIS WARD.

Active training has already begun, though
none of the crews has yet been definitely
chosen.
The University of Pennsylvania has en-
gagged Ellis Ward as trainer and coach,
and he has begun the work of preparing
the crew for the contest, with the hope OF
making the blue and the red the winning
colors in the regatta. The rowing COM
mittee was over four months in selecting
a man to coach the crew and at last set
tied upon Mr.. Ward
This indecision of the committee was
brought about in a great measure by the
controversy that existed between the ath-
letic association and college boat club,
which, briefly stated, was to this effect:
For the last few years the athletic associa-
ton has practically been in charge of row
ing matters at Pennsylvania, and the
member of the boat club were inclined to
think that the association authorities were
not advancing the cause of the Quaker in
stitution on the water to such an advan-
tag9 as when Pennsylvania aquatics were
under the direction of that club. In view
of this they made fight for representation
on the rowing committee, and, succeeding
in their efforts, have ever since been advo-
eating the engagement of Ward.
There was also a strong opposition to
Ward because of his desertion of Pennsyl-
vania in 1891, when he went to the Man
haitian Athletic club, taking with him tho
entire Quaker crew. This antipathy seems,
however, to have beon overcome. Ward
was engaged, and everything is apparently
peaceful among the athletes and oarsmen
at the university in the city of Brotherly
Love.
mittee of Pennsylvania to select a Yale
man as coach had one been available, as
they were DESTROYS of securing an expo
nent of the Cook stroke.
Ward claims to have stroke very SINH
lar to the one taught by Cook. His stroke
is somewhat faster than the one Pennsyl-
vania crews have been rowing for the past
two years, but is not essentially different,
and it is believed that the old men who are
candidates for the varsity will fall right
into his method.
Ellis Ward is one of the best known oars
men in the world today. His record is an
excellent one. He was stroke of the once
famous Ward brothers crew, of which five
were brothers, the sixth member being
man of the name of Graham. This crew
attained international reputation, defeat
ing almost every crew with which it
rowed. His work with Pennsylvania crews
has been very successful. He coached tho
red and blue crews from 1879 to 1891, with
one exception-1997. During the time
Pennsylvania crews were under his in
struction they won 46 races, being second
in IA, and six times broke all previous
records. OF the IA times that Pennsyl-
vania rowed second she forced the victors
to lower the record each time. OF his later
successes last years. record of the Bohemi-
an Rowing club is considered remarkable.
This crew won eight straight victories, the
browning ono being at Saratoga in the ma
tional regatta
Cornell has re-engaged it's old and tried
coach and trainer, Charles Courtney, and
the work of preparation for the four cor
nered aquatic contest has begun in real
earnest.
Columbia, which has the material for a
splendid crew, is also in active training
for the event, in which the oarsmen of the
New York university feel confident of win
ming the trophy.
The Harvard crew, under Trainer Wat
sons tutelage, has got to work in the tank,
and the men show up finely. The person
mel of the team will probably be as fol-
lows: Stroke, HOLSTER; z, Jennings; 6,
Sprague; 8, Perkins; 4, Stevenson; 3,