Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-21

known for several years. Mr.. Bangs en-
gagged Hanlan the next spring for Column
bias coach, but he didn't forget the
younger man. and it is to Mr.. Banks that
Columbia owes having the rowing coach
who has helped to raise the standard OF
performance Of the Blue and White to
something like that of the old days, the
very old lays now.
1t was in 1906 that Morton Bogue and
Frederick B.. Irvine, both Of them much
interested in the direction Of Columbia
rowing, were up in Toronto visiting Han
Ian, and there they met Rice. Hanlan had
been out of Columbia for some time, his
contract having expired in 1903. Columbia
went in for graduate coaching for a time,
Jasper T.. Goodwin having been in charge
from Hanlan's leaving until the end of
the season Of 1906.
There was some talk then OF Rice coming
to Columbia and that added to some other
things that had been said before by Mr..
Bangs. ended in Rlce's coming down to
New York to see about things. HIT got a
contract to coach at Columbia for a year,
both sides to see how they liked the ar
rangement.
Scared Ornel
The Columbia crew of 1907 is history. 1t
IEOM0O SOInGu 10 lAG AOSN IA AOaA AAAA~s
incidentally, 1t may be said here, that was
the first crew Of eight men that Rice ever
taught to go -four miles. He came to
~Poughkeepsie that year, not knowing q
thing about the course and not having had
a chance to learn by experience how to
coach oarsmen to cover the four-mile dis
lance. But his crew was right, and so
have been the succeeding boats Of Column
bia.
The men never nave been in bad physical
condition through entertaining or under
training. Such mishaps as have been sut-
fered have been because OF things beyond
the control Of any trainer. The varsity
Fights of 1905 and 1909 both finished sec
ond, and at the end of the race this year
Columbia raised Rice's pay and gave him
a contract good until the end of the 1913
season. If both sides are pleased then the
contract may be extended to 1918. Rice is
probably the best paid rowing coach in the
country.
The Rice system Of coaching, as far as
can be learned by observation consists In
keeping the men in good humor. Rowing
is thousands Of years old" said Rice, land
no one man has a stroke Of his own. The
thing you have to do is to keep the men
wo. king, and you nave to be sure you're
not driving them too much. These fellows
have a lot Of life before them, and 1 don't
want to send any man out into the world
anything but better for the physical ex-
erclse he gets from rowing"
And most OF them are testimony to the
good effects Of careful training. This
years varsity boat contained two men,
Renshaw, bow, n Hamann, two, who
when they entered college weighed about
l42 pounds each. In the race in July, three
years after their first race, they were
both ITO pounds, perhaps a trifle over.
These are Just two. IA is regarded as
the way to bring men up. They don't feel
overwOrked while they are training and
the Columbia crews have been able to go
the distance.
Coaching by ~InnuendO.
one day in the rowing room Rice bent
solicitously over a freshman on the ma
chimes and felt the end OF the oar handle
the lad was gripping. Hey, the sap's
running out" he said. " Better loosen
up a little on it," Another lad was rowing
with arm as rigid as could be. Rice de-
tached his hands from the oar handl and
worked them back and forth so that they
crooked at the elbow. They do bend, Z"
he said, looking around to some other
freshmen who giggled. Il thought he had
a ramrod through 'em."
Don't work your arms out so TO the
side" he told another oarsman one day.
That's the shoemaker's stroke" as he
illustrated the movements OF a shoemaker
pulling threads through. That's the
fourth today" remarked one OF the can
didates for coxswain. He's had the crawl
stroke and the banana str0ke-the one