Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-06-11
DR.. PET GRADES
NAVY CREW FIRST
Doesn't Know Why. But Admits
Midshipnen Have Out
rowed Rivals
STROKE is AWKWARD

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III Mailer Pee Who used III have
some conn tim MI Il rs,Nsitigss at CO
tafls ~, and Nsists has covered 4 nj III
lsef ii hero and eise. here. AMI
sil sIsfIrsi ten 4lafabIa ANA semen ls
file + II mar stsy Vii d a.l.tsl a.a 1.
di4nlfs Used lla "a ar NAVY crows
sim Ile Il II er tlle soc. ha eelle
.eransiy gieldpa III the naval Acaa
amy crew iae Sc prenasleY among the
ga tern college this season.
though ne Nas quite ure tiiat Penn
sisanIa Would win HI The Henley
slf e9urse 40 on ever thought af
Iaithholding iie ilr#t place from the
aii,sshipnlen
Il spi Il III Tie fret tbat BE biGgcst
row it:g event Of he year as regards
etting, speeta lilar effect ami attend
ms TIE historic Harvard re
paft .yef III BE hebl. ITO aniyer-
sity supremacy has heen definitely de-
9lfletl silaken down and settled With
out peratlYenlilre alihis Of And
moreover, never ID boating annals has
II been 80 tleeisi Sely determined thus
early i'll the season. writes l9r. Wall
Ter Poet the rowing expert
The My biz boat Vas without d
reer This season. AMI many there are
Who think that II Was tlle hes com
1ination ar ail years. barring q couple
Iof Charlie Courtney B Cornell crews.
We have taken d L NV vote among
the closest followers Of the sport this
spring, aud here ID the order ii which
the majority think the varsity crews
should he placed
fi1 United States Naval Academy.
University II I,ennsy lvania
ornell harvard.
syraeuse
Is Vale
iii 8 Princeton.
7.l Columbia
Rowing enthusiasts are most cn j
rtons 70 know why these midd are
Ii. class by themselves. Hid What
illaniier az stroke this wonde crew.
llses. especially Is II has beer point.
I'D ont that heir style Is lance
with that Of the other rowing a sstitn-
tons anu not III accordance With stIhe
orthodox fundamental principles Of
glle English stroke. ,9.aicl more or less
closely haYe been followed b. our uni.
versities
The writer has been HI touch with.
The Nays rowing development for
over 10 years, i IN coached i Column
sbia crew that won At Anna polls.
Briefly, Glendon teaching his men.
hninaIy, awkward stroke according
fo All accepted theories gets them to
commence to put on their power while
tine blades are Just BIT forward of
me right angle Ia the side of tho boat,
Glendon's rowing creed Is Stick To.
tho arc nearest the right angle, Ac-
eording to the simplest mechanics this.
Is ahere power properly prepelss
With IN abnormally long reach the
blades push water away from the sides.
of the boat and With 4 torso wing too
Tar toward the bow hey hove water.
inward which IL wasted energy and.
which does not count IN putting the
boat ahead.
Coach Glendon 81 the Naval Acads
erlly creas,s, was shown 4 similar criti-
eism by Dr Poet some weeks ago.
stT. eSlendon, Who certainly knows
something about rowing was not In
.slined to take them very seriously He
said that everybody knew that If The
reach was too great and the stroke
carried out too FAR, that there was 4
loss iii the misdirec elton of power He
lid. however. that this seldom hap
pened III practice, and that any de-
sarsl.rp from "a nearest the fght
angie was generally iinnaaterial3