Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-24
DULUTH OARSMEN A NATIONAL WIELDER
Boys Begin sculIing As Soon as They
 Don Knickerbockers.

The yowI raised by other colleges because Syracuse boated some Duluth oarsmen in it's varsity shell in June savers of sour grapes.
 Just why Cornell, columbia and Pennsylvania, the crews so easily beaten by the Orange squad at POughkeepsie should complain against Duluth Oarsmen is something of a mystery. The four youths against whom the kick is made are not pro | EfesiOnals-sO why should the rowing authorities make any russ over it? In some Of the organs that peel forth only with plaudits for the col lege in their home town, stories have appeared to the effect that the row ing authorities next year may bar Du- luth Oarsmen from POughkeensie com petition. Such yarns are absurd in an extreme. Just so long as a Duluth youth is @ bona fide student and is not tainted with professionalism, he will be permitted to engage in regat- tas. He has as much right in such a contest as any other amateur
 A Duluth Oarsman, it may be ex- pIained, probably is the greatest nat ural blade wielder in the country. Up in the Minnesota town rowing is the real summer sport. The boys there begin sculling as soon as they don kniCleTbOckers. By the time they
 
 expert in OaTsmanship. But that doesn't make them professionals
 A number of Duluth boys entered
 Syracuse university. Some of the Orange rivals now claim that they were influenced to make the choice. Whether they were or not we cannot say. But what if they were? Does mt every other college in the country that strives for athletic supremacy try to enroll the lileliest looking tal- ent? Are Cornell, Pennsylvanfa or Columbia entirely. free of the suspicion for the best Oarsmen, the best foot ball players, the best baseballers, the best track and field stars?
 Syracuse annexed a few Duluth oaTsmen, and with their aid had an
 easy time of it winning the big var leges, very much peeved over the beating they got are trying to alibi
 themselves by claiming that "Syra-
 cuse was nsportsmanlilke in boating the Duluth men" Reasoning along the same lines, it was aWfully unClub- by of Cornell to play Charley Barrett on it's football team last year. for Pennsylvania to permit Ted Meredith to compete in track events, for Co., lumbia to let Captain Watt play base ball on the Blue and White nine. Syracuse, it seems to us, triumphed at POUghl1eepsie in June, largely be- cause of the superior coaching of Jim Ten Eyck. No one can deny that the Orange boss is one of the greatest rowing authorities in the world. Pear after year he has taken raw material and worked it into finished product
 Every Syracuse crew that has been tutored by Ten Eycl1 has been a fac enhanced by the presence of the Du-
 luth quaret But even if they had not been in the boat it is more than
 likely that Syracuse would have been
 there or whereabouts when the start
 ing line was crossed.
 A Syracuse crew, coached by Ten Eyclz raced in ahead of a six crew
 field in 1914. No Duluth oarsmen
 were in that boat.
 Those who are trying to cloud the
 brilliance of Ten Eyck this summer
 seem to overlook what happened in
 the junior varsity race. That, too,
 was won by Syracuse and just as cas-
 fly as the big Orange crew won the
 stella event. Not one Duluth oars
 man was in that junior boat. It was