Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
(By SOL METZGER, Coach Washing
 ton & Jefferson Football Team,

| J Poughkeepsie- n-the- Hudson, the l scene of the annual intercollegiate boat races, is about to lose its job, if we believe the handwriting on the
 wall. Since 1895 every college crew in the land, excepting California, has lost races at this regatta. Indeed, Pough- keepSie has been both T Cornell Gi-
 braltar as well as a Courtney Auster- litz and Waterloo, rolled into one. On its historic waters-and one must use
 historic in describing the Hudson there was made some twenty years ago the never r-to-be-forgotten to reply of pr. Wheeler. then of Cornell, to the Yale representative who sought to ex- plain the twenty minutes delay of his crew in reaching the starting line.
 tshas waited twenty years for this op- portunity; a mere matter of twenty
 more minutes makes no difference" Twenty minutes later Cornell had won. When one goes adventuring into in-
 tercollegiate rowing history he must
 needs dip into the waters of the his
 toric Hudson at Poughkeepsie. Here,
 most of it has been made, and now
 seems threatened ones memory takes
 him back to the time when Ellis Ward,
 the Pennsylvania coach, ruled as su-
 prene as any kaiser. Then was Court
 ney, of Cornell. who longest held sway
 and who still has few years left. all rumor to the contrary notwithshand-
 ing Then. too there comes before one Ned Hanlon, the master oar of
 them all. His Columbia eight of 1901 was the fastest crew which ever row ed that course, yet one which fell be- fore Cornell in memorable record making four-m:.e race because it had been -"rowed out in too many time trials. We see the jovia1 Walter Feet, oarsman, coach and expert, whose Col umbia crew of '95-Captain Hamilton F'ish-won the first regatta To Pough- keepsie came Jim Rice with his uni formly splendid Columbia crew: Andy O'dea, the Australian, who tutored the Wisconsin eights even the one of berry-crate fame; Ned Ted Eyck, coach of the same crew. and Harry Vail, it's present teacher.
 Long years ago Jim Ten Eyck ap- peared with his Syracuse crews. pres ent champions and next to Cornell the most consistent winners. There was Murray Russell and Pat Demp- sey. of Georgetown; Vivian Nickolls brother of Guy, the Yale coach '(fa- nous Oxford oars), who came and went from Penn, thole-pins and all and who was succeeded by Joe Wright, stickler for the much -derided English tbole-pin rigging.
 Goodwin. Columbia's graduate coach, came and went. Connibear. the Wash ington tutor, fell before the skill of the East as did Frank Guerena the stripling, who brought his college eight from Stanford in 1915. a crew which turned the surprise of the day when it rowed second to Cornell. sans form. sans method, sans everything but good old American guts. And there was Richard Glendon, the Navy coach whose shell in 1907. fell before the smoother crews of the river.
 Every kind and manner of rowing, rigging and style-American. English. and Canadian--has fought ont it's amending argument over the Pouehkeepsie course. Rowing history at .Poughlleepsie is ripe with record and romance. Now it seems that cir cumstances are to deal this place a mighty blow.
 There is no one particular req son for this; rather it is the many There is above all else the objection to four mile racing and an evident desire to reduce the race to two miles. Were