The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-16
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and jolly looking. "A
columbis's coach THU year, Jim RIGS.
was in charge Of the Columbia m en- last
year. JasperT 7. Goodwin. The New Workers
say now that Goodwin lacked the trnre4S
to run his crew for himself. They cannoV
find fault that way with Rice. he Is tho
coach and captain and all the oHher o.
fcials Of the Columbia crew.
He has the idea that the coach, beipS
responsible for the success or failure OF a
crew as a means OF making hs hvehhoeA -.
should be let alone TO take care OF the cars
men. For that reason there is some de
cipline in the Columbia crews, which ap-
parently is a needful change and one thaS7
Is welcome to those who have known OF
! other conditions. Rice is pleasant enough
to his men. but they cannot run him.
In the coaching launc Rice IL distinctly
f~orceful. He reminds one more perhaps
Of Johnny Mack. the Yale trainer, than
any one else. He has the same tight Tipped
way of saying things and the same biting
Hey, you in the second crew, what do you
think you're doing? Think you're going
TO a funeral? Whats hat you're showing,
the crawl stroke?" and there is more length
and sarcastic drawl in the word crawl
that could be made clear in type.
Taking him by and large Rice is about
the best liked man along the river. Even
the rowing coaches, who like most pro.
feSsionals are not apt to speak. kindly OF
one another, all say nice things about Rice
In fact il Columbia should win thero
would he about as much good feeling over
il among ( he other coaches as there would
he at Columbia itself. "Jimmy's a great
boy" says Coach Courtney, and that is a
very general sentiment. -
Ellis Ward OF Pennsylvania Is not long
on sarcasm nor is he vituperative in the
coaching launch. Things are very easy
going in the Quaker penthouse Wards
coaching u~tteranceS come more as sug-
g~estions than as commands and he never is
very severe with his men. He takes his
boys into mis- confidence rather. However,
he is not much of a talker on rowing matters,
except on the matter of races which he and
Hank and Gil and Josh used to row som6
years ago, when the WARD brothers were a
wonderful four.
When a man comes up 10 speak to Ellis
who has nothing to do with the crew and
probably is an alumus Ellis will smile
brightly, meantime in an aside telling some
one about the house: Here comes another
Of them damn fools who dom know nothin'.'
Then when the man goes away Ellis is very
likely to bid a CHEEKY good-by with an invi-
tation to call again, and then turn to his
oarsmen and say; He'll! He thinks he knows
more about rowin' than me- Ellis seems
afraid all the time that some one will get
his job. The talk about graduate coach
ing at Pennsylvania worries him.
Georgetown has a new man in charge this
year. Murray Russell captained and
stroked the Georgetown crew which was
second to Cornell IN 1908. Russell is slngu-
larIy active while coaching. He crawls up
forward on the deck - the launch and with
body and voice gives instruction in the art
Of rowing. He is a tall, good looking CHAP,
with a bright. alert face. He takes a great
deal OF amateur as well as professional in
terest in his crews and his men are working
hard for him.
The style of stroke that he teaches is very
much like that in which Georgetown has
rowed right along. Russell was coached by
Pat Dempsey and there is no reason why he
should after his style now, II was Russell
who not SO long ago mad the statement
that he believed that Georgetown would he
second in the varsity race this year. That
is believed to be ba sed on the showing made
by the crew that he rowed in himself. They
were considered TO be rather poor, but the
Ga meness was there. However, as he picked
FOR places some other crews which he had
not seen, the other coaches we're inclined TO
think that he was a little rash.
Glendon Of Annapolis is q very quiet
chap, apparently very leVelheaded and
sober. He does his coaching in a work.
manlike manner and everything is done
with a sort of precision that might be ex-
rected from a branch Of tn United States
| service. He is rather short and peremptory
in his orders, hut has an amount of courtesy
in his dealings with the persons whom
he has to meet that ia very gratifying
ne II one OF lut DdIkt nn'h' phN u bASovN
deal has been expected of him because OF
the way his crews have been rowing this
season.
Glendon, however. is not at all boastful
and, in fact. is inclined - ,deprecste the
attempts to boost his crews to the front
rank. He says that it is a very hard task
to make q showing on the Hudson in fast
company the first year and his manner shows
that he believes It unwise to say anything
about what he might or might not do.
Every ore Of the coaches has his faithful
| attendant to look after the house or the
shells. Cornell has Fred Webster, who
can hardly wait for the two weeke each
year in which he hangs about the Cornell
house and does odd Jobs. Fred is very
angry at Harry Miller, the Cornell man
ager this year, because Harry mas cut OF
the little graft of going for the mail. Every
Columbia man knows Pete, but few know
his last name. Pete Roessle is a terror
to the freshmen and orders them around
in a terrible way. The two negroes In the
PENNSYLVANIA house are great characters,
especially one little chap, who is the soul OF
a~miability.