The Washington times., 1907-07-23
Washington Opens
Series With West
At Home Tomorrow
Many New Faces on the Team-Poor Record on
the Road-Undignified Excuse by Navy Crew
Coach-Fitz Undeserving.
BY THOMAS S. RICE.

Washington's American League ball
team returns home tomorrow and opens
up a series with the Western clubs oy
meeting ST. Louis. The schedule while
home will be:
ST. LOuis-July a. .. 26. y.
C~hicago-July 9. 80. 81. and August l.
Detroit-August ?, 3. 5, o.
Clevelsnd-August :, s, 9, 10
After the Cleveland series Washington
jumps TO ST. Louis and goes through the
Western circuit for the last time.
The club left here on June q and when
# gets back will have played in seven
cities.
Poor Record on Read.
Il must be confessed that the record
Of Washington since it hit the pike is
not encouraging. II has Won eight
games and lost twenty-one. When 1t
left home It's percentage was .3j4. Now
the percentage is -32, a loss Of . points.
hen st. Louis was in eighth place,
now Washington IS in the cellar and
Boston seventh n St Louis sixth.
The percentage made on the road has
been .2o6, which is a lone way from
that
1-will-be-satisned" slogan OF all man
ayers.
When our brave boys come marching
HON they will have many new tricks
to show. Johnson. the pitcher from
Idaho. with the wonderful no-hit record;
Gehring. the Des Nome twirler; Shipka,
the third baseman from Des MOines. and
Otis Clymer. the ~outhelder obtained
from PittslUrg. VII all be novelties to
Capital audiences and should be well
worth looking over. The only missing
man will be Perrine, who has been
switched 10 Minneapolis in the Amer
lean ASSOCIATION.
Four additions in one trip is a start
ling exhibition Of activity on the part
OF Manager CantiIIon. While the fresh
material has not done any great shakes
In the way OF increasing the number Of
victories, IT should be more or less valu-
able in the course of the season. and
this seems 10 be the only possible
method Of building up a club 20 make
a creditable showing in the American
League race.
Glendon's U~ndignihed Excuse.
The yelp attributed to Coach Glendon
about 1he Navy crew az POughkeepsie
having been defeated by the rough water
in the course il drew. has made q dis
tinctly unfavorable impression upon a
number Of college sportsmen and com
petent rowing critics in this city and
elsewhere. They look upon il as a most
-ungraceful excuse upon the part of the
Navy coach. smacking much Of the
style Of explanation given by prizefght-
ers and such like when defeated. and at
variance with the manly declarations Of
other unsuccessful coaches who have
been willing TO admit that their crews
could not quite reach, and therefore
lost.
n Glendon inspired the windy story
e~EtenuRting the defeat of his charges
IL is sueCested that somebody call him
TO order, for II does not sound like the
talk we should hear In the hour Of ad-
versity from an institution devoted sole
" TO the holding Of officers and gentle
men. One weIl-known oarsman OF Wash
ingtOn. who has not only on hrst-
class crews, but has coached others, and
is an admittedly competent trainer
anu observer. has this to say about
Glendon's undignifed roar:
Navy Coaching Defective.
Navy may have had some trouble
about its course. but the real reason
for its failure to come to all the touting
il received was that GIendon's system
of coaching is defective. He had at
Poughkeepsie his year one OF the finest
kAEWNH "a sAN1AAa hANAA W ~ S-
the Hudson. and one thai in Courtney's
hands would have finished first.
Glendon has always been a two-mile
coach. He uses a high stroke and relies
entirely upon the brute strength and
weight OF his men to carry him through.
This is an excellent policy for a short
distance. but In foU miles form cuts
an enormous figure, and Glendon's crews
have never had the proper form. They
ave none Of that smoOthness and stead
M.aaa ~ - - ~ HNnH n ]
energy n enable a crew 10 go the
last two miles as strongly as the first
half the course. The fact that the
Middies finished third is a wonderful
tribute 10 their native physical strength
in accomplishing so much. despite Glen
don's faulty coaching.
Post Mortems Sound Badly.
AS for rough water. a crew trained
on the Severn. near Annapolis. should
be used TO that IL nothing else. At
Poughkeepsie the dope was that II
the water were rough the Mlddies would
have a distinct advantage. both because
OF their experience and their weight.
They had heavy going. and now Glen
con Is urging that very thing as a rea-
son why the Annapolitans were third
instead of first.
Navy had every possible advantage
except In coaching. and post mortems
in which il sought 10 md some other
explanation for a perfectly natural re-
verse are by no means edifying. espe-
cially when coming from an institution
supposed 10 in~culcate such high ideals
OF fair play and willingness 10 bear in
an oficer-like and dignihed manner the
fortunes Of war"
The announcement that a race meet
ing Is to be held at Norfolk in con-
junction with the jamestown Exposition.
and without the sanction OF the Jockey !
Club, will arouse little enthusiasm in
this section. The merry-go-round which
lobe Wall and others started at the
Charleston Exposition win come forcibly
10 mind. This vas a sad affair and
queered everybody connected with the
enterprise. There Is no circuit Of out
law racks in the East. and II is hard to
see why anybody with a horse worth
racing should take a chance on having
himself and the animal ruled of the
recognized turf for the sake OF Via
could be won at Norfolk
II has long been a dream 10 run races
IN this section Of the country without
The sanction Of the Jockey Club. but it's
n hard game 20 20 against. The I'M