Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-08
DULUTH OARSMEN
ARE ELIGIBLE FOR
SYRACUSE BOATS
AS Long as Athletes Are
Bonafide Students Have
Right to Compete
TEN EYCK GREAT COACH

Tho howl raised by other colleges because
| Syracuse boated some Duluth oarsmen in
its varsity shell in June savors of sour
grapes.
Just why Cornell Columbia and Penn
| sylvania, the crews so easily beaten by the
| Orange squad at Poughkeepsie, should COM
plain against Duluth oarsmen is something
| Of mystery. The four youths against
whom the wick is made are not profession
| als-so why should the rowing authorities
| make any fuss over It?
In some of the organs that peal forth
| only with plaudits for the college in their
home town. stories have appeared to the
effect that the rowing authorities next year
| may bar Duluth oarsmen from Poughkeep-
| sic competition. Such yarns are absurd
| in an extreme. Just so long as a Duluth
youth is a bona-fde student and is not
| tainted with professionalism he will be
permitted to engage in regattas. He has
as much right in such n contest as any
other amateur.
A Duluth oarsman, 1t may be explained,
probably is the greatest natural blade
wielder in the country. Up in Minnesota
town rowing is the real summer sport. The
boys there begin sculling as soon as they
don knickerbockers. BY the time they are
OF college age they are extremely expert in
Craftsmanship. But that doesn't make them
professionals.
Fail to Probe Alibi
A number of Duluth boys entered Syra-
cuse University. Some of the Orange riv-
ais now claim that they were influenced
to make the choice. Whether they were or
not cannot be said. But what IL they
were? Doesn't every other college in the
country that strives for athletic supremacy
try to enroll the likeliest looking talent?
Are Cornell, Pennsylvania or Columbia en-
tirely free of the suspicion that they all
1.ars
men, the best football players. the best base
ballers. the best track and field stars?
Syracuse annexed a few Duluth oars
men. and with their aid had an easy time
OF It winning the big varsity race. And
now the other colleges, very much peeved
over the beating they got, are trying to
alibl themselves by claiming that "Syra-
cuse was unsportsmanllke in boating the
Duluth men" Reasoning along the same
lines, 1t was awsully unclubby OF Cornell
to play Charlie Barrett on its football
team last fall for Pennsylvania TO per
nit Ted Meredith to compete inS track
events. for Columbia to let Captain Watt
play baseball on the Blue and White nine,
Ten Eyck a Wizard Coach
Syracuse, 1t seems to us, triumphed at
Poughkeepsie in June largely because OF
the superior coaching OF Jim Ten Eych.
No one can deny that the Orange boss is
the world. Year after year he has taken
raw material and worked 1t into finished
product. Every Syracuse crew that has
been tutored by Ten Eyck has been
factor in a race. The chances OF the big
Orange crew this season probably were
enhanced by the presence OF the Duluth
quartet But even If they hadn't been in
the boat, it is more than likely that Syra-
cuse would have been there or thereabouts
when the starting line was crossed.
A Syracuse crew, coached by Ten Eyck.
raced in ahead of six-crew field in 1914.
No Duluth oarsmen were In that boat
Those who are trying to cloud the brill
lance OF Ten Eyck this summer seem TO
overlook what happened in the junior
varsity race That, too, was won by
Syracuse, and just as easily as the big
Orange crew won the stellar event. Not
one Duluth oarsman was in that Junior
boat 1t was made up OF youngsters who
had no greater natural advantages than
their rivals in the other shells They were
boys who probably learned all they know
about rowing from Ten Eyek. The race
was a test OF coaching. And Ten Eyck's
system triumphed.
Those who charge Syracuse with having
been unspOrtsmanlike In boating Duluth
men are themselves unsportsmanllke In
saying so,