New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-08
COACH COURTNEY
TO RETIRE AFTER
HUDSON RACES
Veteran Cornell Trainer
Makes Announcement
Penn Jr.s Beat Varsity.

Poughkeepsie, ". Y, June Charles
E. Courtney, veteran coach Of the Cor
nell crews, is serving his last year rs
director of the Cornell navy, and at the
end Of the present rowing season he
will retire from active participation in
the coaching of rowing at Cornell
This startling announcement from
the Sage of the Hudson, expected by
Cornell men ever since last spring.
when he suffered fractured skull,
came upon the rowing colony with
such audiences that It was the SEN
sation of the day.
Not once since he was removed from
the Cornell quarters at the Cakes on
race day last year and rushed to the
Ithaca General Hospital has Courtney
been unattended by a physician or a
nurse, and every time he has been out
with the crews in the few days he has
been here the nurse has been at his
eide.
He does not complain, but the strain
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more severe since the beginning of the
rowing season, is fast sapping his
strength, and he is now Convinced that
to try 10 coach another yetr would be
folly. Therefore. he is determined TO
retire with the passing into history OF
the 1916 regatta.
1t is his wish TO continue in an ad-
visory capacity, and although ne will
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coach, he will nevertheless have an in
fuential hand in the direction Of Cor
nel's rowing destinies.
IL is said that the Cornell rowing
authorities contemplate adopting a sys-
TEN Of graduate coaching with re-
cent graduate acting as head coach un-
der the personal supervision of Court
ney. II is preferable TO get man who
has been trained under Courtney, be-
cause he would have as a groundwork
for his coaching his four years Of ex-
perience as an oarsman. Courtney Is
TO have final authority, but only in an
advisory capacity.
Hardly less startling than the an
nouncement Of Courtney's retirement
was the beating administered to the
Pennsylvania varsity eight in a four
mile time trial by the junior combina-
ton this morning. Rain, which poured
necessarily all day, had no terrors for
the Quakers, and they hammered their
way down over the course in a trial
that bore every resemblance TO a race.
When at the finish the juniors rested
on their oars they were ten boat
lengths in front of the varsity boat,
and Joe Wright was in a quandary.
The time was 81 minutes and seconds.
Starting on even terms at Crum FL
bow, the varsity set off rowing a "a
stroke TO 80 by the juniors. With
their longer and more powerful stroke
the juniors showed ahead in less than a
furlong, but at the half-mile mark the
varsity was on even terms, and for the
next half-mile they battled along abso-
lutely together.
Then the juniors began 10 pull ahead
and at the mile and a half post were a
full length to the good. They increased
this advantage another half-length in
the next mile, and then began to row
away from the varsity boat, which was
getting a little speed out of its higher
stroke. At the finish the varsity was
ten lengths in the ruck.
Wright's difficulties in shifting the
Junior combination over into the var
sity boat in body are complicated by
the fact that Jerauld. rowing No. 4, is
a frst-year dental student, and ineligi-
bic TO row in the varsity combination.
Through a university rule he is un-
able to row in the freshmen eight, and
the junior boat is the only one in which
he can row. Wright is open 20 sug-
gestions.
With the arrival Of the three SYRIA
cuse crews and the Cornell freshmen
boatload this morning the regatta col
ony was brought up 70 its full quota.
The Cornell freshmen are game look
ing lot OF youngsters. and did not seem
to mind the fact that they had their
first spin on the Hudson in driving
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