Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-22

| ican rowing that this country has | seen. He produced a, crew around three defeated veterans in one year i that could get more length to a drive | than could YaIe's, which had five vet | eranS in it, and was coached for the l third time by NickallS. It could sprint faster and sat it's shell better than 1 Nale'S. It was as clean and decisive ! a victory as any coach has ever won, l and il places HerriCk high in Amer | ican rowing. It was a complete vim 1 uiCatiOn of the graduate coaching idea as WGl as of American ideas over 1 transplanted English ones. It was an l overwhelming defeat for Yale and 1 Nickalls, and marks a new era in l American intercollegiate rowing. The vital point in the Syracuse vic l tory at POughkeepSie is the question l of whether the same methods which l have marked the production of other | Intercollegiate athletic teams are to 1 hold in rowing. Rowing is a sport 1 that has been remarkably free of all | the problems incident to foot ball, | base ball and track. College Oarsmen 1 have been made from the student l body with little or no previous row. 1 ing experience. In fact when the can l didates have rOwed at preliminary schools they have been benefited but i little.
 Advantage of Syracuse. 1 The question about the Syra cuse 1 crew is whether it is quite fair that college eights should be given such an 1 advantages as Syracuse possessed in 1 having the four Duluth boys who had 1 gained much rowing experience in the l boat club there. The victory at POugh- i keepsie was cut and dried and re- l Ceived without enthusiasm. If SyTa- | CuSe rows the next two years it seems as sure to win. for no eight made up of raw material can hope to cope with it. It is a question so perpleNing that the board of stewards do not know what to dO about it. The rule barring club Oarsmen from freshmen crews has not hit the spot. Neither is it fair to bar a student from intercOlleg- fate rowing who has happened to row a club boat The situation is an en- igma.
 As to the relative merits of Harvard and Syracuse there can be little ques- UOn. One crew coach, a man, who 1 has produced many winning college eights, said after the Harvard victory l that Syracuse could have gone the four miles at Poughkeepsie at a 34- stroke and had enough left for great finish. It is believed by many to be the best eight that has ever repre- seHted a college. There is no reason it should not be. Herriclz of Harvard 1 NiCkallS of Yaie Wright of PennSyl- | vanie Rice of Columbia and any num- Der of coaches could have won hands down with tt.
 Is Setback to Sport.
 The fun of college rowing received a setback when this eight came into being, and there is no present. day remedy to help it. At that, Syracuse has done no more in rowing than have the other colleges in their other ma jOr sports. But it is the single major intercollegiate sport which has no moot points as to the men participant ing.
 What Yale will do is a question. Nicllalls has produced winners in the past and it is not fair to judge a man by one years record. They will prob ably retain him. Yet they may do anything, for this defeat, so absolutely overwhelming, is gaIling to Yale men. Where to turn is a question. They have thought of both Ten Eyck and Jim Rice in former years, but both these men have been under contract.
 In fact, the Rice situation is an odd one. Rice seems to want to leave Co., luInbia, judging by his remarks. In his nine years as coach he has pro duced but one winning eight, yet he is under contract to 1921 at a salary above the average paid winning coaches. Columbia men have backed him and worked for him. Rice knows rowing-this is strokes and rigging as well as any man in charge of a crew today.
 Pennsylvania. has much to do in every lIIl6 IO ISSdlIl us lOllS -IOSJ IOW- ing prestige. The trouble with the Quakers is not their present coach. Joe Wright has Q wonderful personal ity, and is loved by all who work un- der and with him. He knows rowing, and at Toronto produced nine winners in II races some years ago against coaches like Ten Eyck and Rice. His overwhelming defeat at Poughkeepsie was particularly annoying. The trou- ble at the Philadelphia institution is a lack of interest in rowing matters by the rowing authorities.
 Penn is Handicapped.
 They work under a smaller cash
 appropriation than any other crew and get less men out. They need an awakening and the stimulating inf1u- ence of a man like Wright to build up a plan like the one Columbia con- templates. Intramural rowing from a boathouse which will accommodate more than half a dozen eights is the remedy, and without it they cannot hope for better crews than have been their portion.
 There is a great amount of talk about taking regatta matters out of the hands of the .ra aiIroads On acc011rt