The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07

consent Of the coach. Columbia crews In
years past rave been predicted either sure
or likely winners when they really did not
merit any such thing. As a result the
public has come to believe that no credence
should be put In any more Of these state
ments Besides. this year Coach Rice was
very close mouthed about thea ability Of his
men. He did not say at any n time that
they were very good or very bad. He
kept all his ideas to himself.
Columbia men had the impression that
the crew was better h usual. Indeed.
they knew that il was as good q crew as
Columbia ever had had and yet the mel
in the boat did not Impress them greatly.
They were imbued with not a little OF the
show me spirit. So they were content
to wait. The private ideas as to the worth
of the crew were justified when they got
into action. Tho men rowed sturdily. all
the way until Just before the finish. when
they tired sbadly. One crew or the other
had TO give in after the terrible struggle
and it was not unnatural that IL should be
the lighter crew, which had done most OF
the pacing and forcing.
There can be no question OF IL, things
are different now at Columbia. Rice has
wrought changes. At the two mile mark
in the varsity race the Cornell crew gave
every appearances OF having waited long
enough and Of being prepared men and
there to run away from the New Workers.
If they had any such idea they were mis-
taken. Rioe's men were there TO stick ana
they stuck right up to the last effort. They
were rowed out to the final ounce and when
when they were all through they we're still
three feet short OF being winners. The
race between Columbia and Cornell was
the best ever seen on the river, not barring
the races in 1900 and In 1901. Rarely have
two crews been seen 10 stick together x
that for 40 much Of the distance.
Columbia and Cornell have furnished the
keen races OF the regatta. II was Columbia
which in 1901 forced the thaoans to make
a record for the course in order to win. That
was under Hanlan. Rice ia a friend OF Han
Ian. and helped the latter will his coaching
when Hanlan was a sculler. There is a pop
ular impression hat Rice Is a very new mar
at lhe coaching game. Probably he is with
the college crews. but he has been 10 rowing
as a coach for twenty years. He has had
among them the Dor r. c.. the Argonaut
r. c., the Brockville r. c.. the Detroit A. G.
and clubsi in Baltimore too. His previous
college experience was with Harvard. where
be was the coach Of the Weld Club oarsmen.
Rice did not copy his style OF rowing from
any one. He follows no school but teaches
what appeals to him as the best style for
rowing the distances his men are called
upon to go.
that Rice knows his business, and the Column
bia men ought 70 be willing to let him go his
own way unhampered. Rice was the
selection OF a body OF the younger element
in the Columbia Rowing Club, including
such men az Stephen p. Nash. Norton @.
rowing has been very recent. It is under
stood now that F. 8. Bangs will withdraw
from active connection with the university
rowing club after this season. He remained
In rowing this year only because he was re-
quested to stay On by DIR. Butler and others.
Mr. RanUa will rpmain n mamhQr Of tha
board of stewards Of the Intercollegiate
Rowing Association. IL 10 expected.
II will be recalled that Mr.. Bangs was
greatly in favor Of holding to the graduate
system Of coaching at Columbia. He was
In favor Of retaining Jasper T. Goodwin
n plugging away at the graduate coach
ing until some results were obtained.
Through Mr.. Bangs the thesis was set
forth some time 9 that Columbia ought
to commit herself to graduate coaching
regardless Of victories. Rice took Snevilly.
James and George mckenzie. Boyle.
Spaulding and Cerussi, who had their first
training in rowing under Jasper +. Good
win, and adding to them two inexperienced
men. Starbuck and Won Saltza, made a
crew which was beaten three feet by Cornell
after the best race ever seen on the river.
Freshmen crews generally give a pretty
good line on the capabilities OF a coach.
That is, of course. with the provision always
that freshman crews cannot always be
relied upon to row to form. In the case of
Wisconsin's victorious boat this year no
complaint OF that kind can be made. The
Badger 1910 bunch rowed as il hardened to
the game. They walked right away from
the othersa and had the race always in hand.
The Columbia freshmen being victims Of
an accident which, Of course, could not
be observed from tina Rhore looked to have
petered out afteruthe first mile. Yet they
stayed right up and fought even with
the boat waterlogged, 30 that IL was only
at the end hat tbey really did fall back
to fourth place. Trey showed that Rice
was a good coach. although their work
was by no means equal TO that Of the Wis
consin men.
IL gave a good line on the qualities of Ed
Ten Eyck. On the strength OF that alone,
Wisconsin would be justified In ~reengaging
him. His men roweS 4 very pretty, well
judged race and bore out all the predictions
made beforehand hat they would win.
They set their boat up better thar the
varsity eight, and IL Is by no means certain
that they would have been any worse in the
varsity four mile race than the older Badger
crew was. The trouble which hampered
the Badger varsity most. IL appeared. was
that their o sat down by the head and
thus helped to ship water greatly in the
rough going on the easterly COURSES.
Ten Eyck. like his father and Richard
Glendon. was hoping for smoother water
and no wind as the ideal conditions for a
varsity race. The impression among the
men who know about the Poughkeepsie
course 10 that 1t never 10 absolutely fair to
al the starters. For instance. on tho 90