Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25
PENIS Rowing Troubles.

The rowing situation at the University
of Pennsylvania is quite as serious as at
Yale At Pennsylvania there is division
of authority between the athletic associ-
alton and the college boat cub. The lat
ter organization was the one which intro
duced rowing at Pennsylvania forty years
ago, several years before any other sport
was fostered. BY virtue of contract
entered into when the present athletic
association at Pennsylvania was organ
lied the college boat club. which owns
the boathouse on the Schuylkill river,
secured the right to name three members
of the rowing committee. there being fve
in all, and to select the head coach In
return for this the athletic ASSOCIATION
agreed to pay 500 a year to maintain
rowing, the college boat club to raise
what other funds We're necessary.
For a good many years past the college
boat club has exercised no other junction
than to name a majority of the rowing
committee and to select the coach The
athletic association has paid all of the
bills, and instead of donating only 500
a year has been paying All expenses
amounting to more than $4,000 year.
The present disagreement between the
two organizations came to head with
the demand of the board of directors
that a new coach other than Eliis
Ward, be selected. The college boat CUP,
which is, made up only of oarsmen who
have sat in varsity boats favors Ward
by an overwhelming majority. What
PENNSYLVANIA wants is to remove the con-
troll of rowing from the college boat CUP
to the board of directors, so that II can
appoint the head coach itself. rms the
college boat club has steadfastly declined
TO do Wards contract still has one year
to run, and he declines to quit before
September l, 1913.
In case the two factions fail to agree
a hn n
syIvania undergraduates have little or no
confidence in Ellis Ward as head coach
Their contention is that as long as
Ward remains Pennsylvania is bound TO
be at the bottom in rowing because NOT
enough candidates can be secured to have
the university as we'll represented in this
sport as it is in others They contend
that neither Ward nor the members OF
the college boat club have the right to
block the progress of rowing. They feel
that Ward has outlived his usefulness as
a coach and that he is too old man to
continue in active charge of this sport.
Pennsylvania men also lament the fact
that they have not won race at Pough-
keepsie since 1901.
New Alliances in Track Athletics.
For the first time in a good many years
there will be no dual track meet between
Cornell and Princeton. The Tigers have
found that the expense of going to Ithaca
in alternate years is too great for the
amount of good they obtain from the
The Tigers have beaten
Cornell only on rare occasions, and figure
that they can get quite as much benefit
from a dual meet with some institution
closer at hand.
There is right now a possibility for a
dual meeting between Princeton and
NJ. G. Murphy, the trainer
of the Pennsylvania team, and Keene
coach of the Tigers, have
been very close friends for years, and
both have expressed themselves informal
ly as strongly in favor of such an annual
set of games. There would be practically
no expense to the meeting, and i'm addi-
ton it would draw a much bigger at
tendance than a similar meet between
Princeton and Cornell.
AS things now stand. Princeton would