The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-16
WAYS OF The CREW COACHES
MANNERISMS OF THE MEN WHO
DRILL COLLEGE OARSMEN.
Courtney Mildly Sarcastic Father Ten
Eyck Inclined 10 BE TalhatlNe. While
Son Ed Has Bent Toward MonOsyllables
Jim Rice OF Columbia Popular.

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Jim Rice OF Columbia Popular.
/ PoUGHKEEPsIE, n. Y. June Is. On most
! other occasions when the college crews
nave come TO ~Poughkeepsie for the regatta
they have been ready 10 row a race the
day Of their arrival. This season all the
crews are behind in their training be-
cause Of most u~nfavorable weather. and
AS a result much work has been done at
Poughkeepsie that never was done here
before. The coaches have been buster and
what they have had TO do was not TO sit
around and watch their crews take on the
final touches OF polish. but to get out and
work very hard with them.
The crew coach in action is a various
bird. There are no two of them to follow
the same methods in coaching. This year
there are seven coaches here, of whom
three are of the old guard in American
college rowing. Charles. u. Courtney OF
Cornell. James 4. Ten Eyck Of Syracuse
and Ellis Ward OF Pennsylvania are the
older men. Opposed TO them are the
younger men, James c Rice Of Columbia,
Murray Russell OF Georgetown, Richard
Glendon of the Naval Academy and edward
H. Ten Eyck of Wisconsin. The older men
have had things pretty much all their "
way in rowing, because, barring 1895, when
Columbia won, it has been either Courtney,
Ward or Ten EyCk who had the winning
crew, mostly Courtney,
The Cornell coach belongs to the mildly
sarcastic school of rowing coach. He does
not rip a man to pieces with his tongue
when he makes a fault. but he mentions
the incident then and there in a way that
Iii. IL ,,aa, ol~,r1,, 10 shn NAME mind
There are moments when the Cornell coach
Is p~rofane, however, but his bursts of anger
are short lived as a rule,
He has a good knowledge OF just what
to say to get a whole crew fighting mad,
so that the men will say TO themselves;
so the old man thinks we cant row., eh''
and then. We'll, we'll show him" and they
dig in harder than ever. Which was what
Courtney was after. Courtney calls his
men by name when he 10 addressing them
through the megaphone. Some other
coaches call them only by the number
of the seat they occupy.
Courtney has long moments when ne is
content to let his crew go along without
suggestion or correction. He drops his
m]egaphone and looks through his glasses,
his eyes aEleam, and his whole personality
otherwise quiet. Some defect shows and
he grabs IN the megaphone, rips an order
through it and then relapses into quiet
again. On the whole, however, he is not
too good natIred with his boys and they
are pretty sore at times at some Of the
things the old man says.
Courtney leaves the coaching Of the
freshmen mostly in the hands Of Freddie
Colson. the old coXswain. He has had them
in hand for several seasons back. Mr..
Colson is a member Of the faculty Of the
Cornell Law School, 80 that in coaching
the freshmen he has not in his rowing squad
any Of the men whom he instructs in the
college.
MIR. Colson ia very quick in speech and
action and he makes the freshmen stand
around more even than Courtney does with
his varsity men. They get a good taste of
discipline right at the start Of their rowing
careers at Cornell. In fact it often has been
observed that there ia more attention paid
| to form and discipline at Cornell than
at any Of the other rowing colleges.
Next to the Cornell coaches the Ten Eyoks
are the most interesting persons on the river
this season. James, Sr,. has charge Of
Syracuse; James, Jr.. is stroke of his fathers
varsity crew. and Edward is coach Of the
Wisconsin crew. II has been set forth
how Eds crew this year in a race at Madison
defeated his fathers varsity crew by two
lengths For the matter OF eKultation.
those who expected that Ed was going to
become greatly excited over the victory
we're greatly disappointed. After the race
Ed did not seem 10 be moved at all. His
father when he came here was asked about
the way in which the victory over Syracuse
was received at Madison. The students
were all worked up over il, = said the older
Ten Eyck, "but not Ed, He's the human
iceberg. AS far as emotion is concerned
Ed Ten Eyck might well he called the
human monoSyllable as well as iceberg.
He gets communicative to the extent of
about eight words on rare occasions, but
il is only seldom that he is so garrulous.
He almost never volunteers a remark
TO a person whom he hoes not know well.
When the reporters went over to the Wis
consin boathouse when the Westerners
came in they had been warned in advance
that Ed was not a man TO say much. That
tip came from his own father,
How are your crews coming on, Mr.,
Ten Eyck? What do you think of them?'
There they are. Look at EN-
nave YOU btth dlIV Wv Nv Ip"lIs
at Madison than the other colleges have
in their places? 1t las been a very back
ward spring here. 1t has been very cold.
Have you had much troubleE"
1T was pretty bad.
What kind of a race was il out at Madison
when you beat the Syracuse crew. Did
it help you any in figuring out what your
crews might do in the East?'
1T helped some
Then the young man, lighting a cigar,
burst into conversation almost! When
the winds from the northeast il blows
across one lake and up the other and We
can't row at all. Had ten days like that
this spring" That amount of conversation
offered almost without questioning was
too much for Ed. He relapsed into utter
silence for about ten minutes. When the
reporters departed he frightened up con-
siderably and said; You're welcome.
Come in any time" That may have been
some Of the Ten Eyck brand of arcasm
There could not we'll be a greater contrast
between men than that between Ed n
his father. The Syracuse coach is com
municative to an extent that is almost I'M
b~elievahle. He, will talk about almost
apythjp1 and be has ideas on rowing which