Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-19
NEW CREW
COACH MEANS END
Of ENGLISH SYSTEM
Young Seattle Mentor Has On
p%ortunity for Big
Career.

New York, Aug. 1S.-Herbert Reed
a we'll known coach on rowing, says
that 1ale's move in engaging Edward
Leader as head rowing coach at that
university is one of the most inter
esting developments of a boating sea
son that has bristled with action.
He says. THE Ellis seem to have
reached the conclusion that further ex-
periments with either real or hybrid
English are useless. Yale has had
capable Englishmen in charge, no mis-
take about that. and upon two occa-
sions has been obliged to modify meth.
DDS and rigging at the last moment. in
the meantime making a poor showing
in the early cas- races.
1T might he said offhand that in
changing from the English methods
installed by men like NickalIs and the
Gorderrys to the method taught by the
young star from Seattle. Yale had gone
to extremes. This, / think. is hardy
true. for the far westerner is an
open-minded instructor who has shown
remarkable ability to get unison in his
crew. which, after all. is the main
thing, while at the same time being
willing to pick up a pointer here and
there from the old-timers who have
been coaching for more years than
Leaders age.
Leader Taught Himself
IF anything has been proved by the
young man from the northwest it is
that one may teach himself to row
and teach himself to coach. if neces-
sary. Leader ooh up his rowing I'M
der Conibear. who was himself self
taught, and if anything seems to have
improved on his instructor. There
are few old-timers, especially those
who have been in England either with
or without crews, who will undertake
to say that there is nothing to be
learned from England. 1t has seemed.
however, that most of the E%nglishilen
who have come over here to coach
have failed to understand the Ameri-
can material. There certainly is
something to be learned from the En-
glishmen. Even the late Charles e.
Courtney was willing to admit that.
But Courtney and other coaches have
fitted their stroke to their men, and
this last season certainly no man
fitted his material better than did
Leader.
1T is no disparagement of the new
Yale coach to say that he will prob
ably go on learning. for he is of the
progressive, ambitious type. with a
real career ahead of him. 1t is prob
able that he will ask for American
boats when he gets down to work Mt
New Haven-boats fitted to carry the
excellent material-and his rigging he
will work out for himself when he
picks his men.
Captain a Westerner
Fortunately for the future pros
poets of the Ellis, Captain Pelly is
himself a westerner, thoroughly in
harmony with the new mans meth
DDS. and the rowing committee is ap-
parently convinced that COMMON
in coaching is better after all than
short cuts. There is no
reason that l can see, with the mate
rial at hand, why Leader should not
show results at once. although of
not too much is expected of
him.
THE old exaggerated swing is sure
to disappear, although, Judging by the
work of his great Washington eight,
Leader is no opponent of swing in
sweep rowing. He heightened out per-
ceptibly after he arrived at Pough-
keepsie, without at the same time
going to extremes.
ITO put it in q sentence, Yale ap-
has decided to go In for
and racing by common sense
instead of by formula. Leader: a
young man Of pleasant personality.
will be a welcome addition to the
coaching forces of the east"