The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-23
Ned Ten Eyck
Talks Rowing
HIS PLANS FOR 80.
Says Philadelphia Will Get
Regatta.

Edward H. Ten Eyck is home from
the University of Pennsylvania for the
holidays He arrived in Worcester on
the 5 o'clock train yesterday morning,
and would have reached Worcester the
night before had it not been for an ae-
dent upon the Pennsylvania road which
prevented him from making the 4
o'clock train out of New York.
The Spy two days ago, announced
Mr.. Ten Eyck's arrival in this city err
roneously. The little blunder hap
pened in rather amusing way, and
nobody is the worse for it all, excepting
The Only Yellow, down the street Chat
ing under the numberless scoops that
The Spy serves up daily, it quietly pick
ed out the blunder and started upon the
old harangue about the "untutored
staff of Journalists" ETC., driving at the
very men that Cristy has been trying
to induce for two or three years to
come over and join the procession"
as he calls it. Not being fond of flu
nerfw~- they don't go.
Al. Of which goes te prove what is
abreast of the times-sometimes AS
hours ahead of the news and its COM
petitors The acknowledged reliability
OF The Spy is Vouche1 for by the fact
that the evening papers night before
last trailed along on The Spy's story
OF Mr.. Ten Eyck's return just as they
do on so many of its stories. So The
Only Yellow is the minority, as usual
But now about Mr.. Ten Eyck. The
champion amateur oarsman of this
country viii spend a week or ten DAYS
in this city, and will then return TO
college, where he is pursuing a course
in the dental department. Yesterday
AFTERNOON a representative of The Spy
saw him on the street and had an in
tereSting chat with the Henley winner
regarding matters aquatic.
Ten Eyck today weighs IT'S pounds,
stripped, which was just about his
weight when he returned to college in
the fan. AS yet he has done nothing
IN prepare ton for next years rowing
season. but says he shall begin shortly
gymnasium work to get up his wind.
and as soon as river rowing is possible
ne Will go out on the Schuylkill for
spins in his she'll
The young man says he has not as
yet made any definite plans for his
rowing next summer, but expects he
wall compete in about the same number
OF races as in '9S. When asked if there
was any truth in the published state
ment that he would row no single races
next season, Ten Eyck replied most
emphatically that there was not He
viii, of course, double UP with his row.
ing partner of this year, Charles H
Lewis, and the present champion double
VIII participate in nearly all of the
principal regattas in this section of the
country competing, as usual, under the
colorS OF the Wachusett Boat Club
But Ten Eyck Will do some single
scull work as well, and will be in trim
to take part in the national regatta
tie was unwilling to venture an opinion
as to whether the national association
would adopt the proposed change in
the rules, barring the preceding sea-
sons winner of the national senior
championship from competition in the
race, and, instead, having the winner
OF that race row the champion of the
preceding year for the amateur national
championship If that rule is adopted,
Ten Eyck will be on hand to defend his
championship title from all corners; if
not, he will participate in the race
According to Ten Eyck, Philadelphia
stands a far better chance of having
the national regatta again next year
than does Boston. He has seen Secre-
y
ton is now in the lead for the event
but says he believes 1t will go to the
Quaker city after all. The Philadel-
phians are making little effort to get
the regatta, but the Canadian oarsmen
Ten Eyck says, all prefer Philadelphia
and so do the, boating clubs in the
south.
Personally Ten Eyck would prefer to
have the regatta at Philadelphia than
at Boston. The course there is far
better than can be obtained on the
Charles river, and the accommodations
for the oarsmen he believes to be SUI
perior to anything the Hub can offer.
The only advantage Ten Eyck says he
can see in bringing the regatta to Bos-
ton is that it would tend to boom row.
ing in this vicinity. But then there is
the Labor day regatta on the Charles
river each year which tends to keep in
terest alive.
At the next annual meeting Of the
national association, Hedley, the crack
oarsman Of the Vesper Club, will apply
for amateur reinstatement Ten Eyck
said that the clubs about PHILADELPHIA
were working hard to induce the assoc
citation to- take Hedley back into the
fold, and that he believed and hoped
their efforts would be successful.
Regarding the Pennsylvania crew,
Ten Eyck said that the prospects were
most promising. Coach Ellis Ward has