The Washington times., 1925-01-07

The. Naval crew VIII row Ii, the
American Henleys at PhiladeIphia
On. May so and in the Poughkeepsie
regatta. on June 20, ifi conditions
permit. and it has. besides, q good
schedule of dual and triangular
races. The annual practice cruise
Ii to the Pacific. coast this summer,
and the Naval oaFsmer1 will be.
transferred there by; train iEnme-
diately after the event on the Hud-.
The fact. that the Navy ana Yale
do not meet Is regarded as unfor-.
tunatA, as 1t may keep the rowing
supremacy unsettled for the sea-
son. The Navy did everything III
could to. secure a meeting, being
willing to row Yale under almost
any condition. However, the two
crews win meet q number Of the
same opponents, and may be COM
pared In this way.
The other races In which the
Naval Academy crew VIII paftici-
pate are: April Is, Massachusetts
Tech. at Annapolis; May 2. Prince
ton, at Princeton; May 70, Har.
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May 0 and lis are Open dates, and
one or both may be filled. Penn
sYlvania usually sends It's crews
60 Annapolis, but it may not do
IL this year, as Il viii meet the
Navy both In the HenIeys and at
POughkeepsie.
The one thought in connection
with rowing is to bring back to the
Navy the prestige OF the Golden
Era" of 1920. 1921. and 1922. In the
first OF these years, the Naval
Academy won the Olympic cham
pionship, and in the other two 1t
was the victor at POughkeepsie.
The elder Glendor. who had
brought the Naval Academy crews
to their high position, left at the
end Of the season Of 1922. being
succeeded by his son. Richard y.
Glendon. The younger GIendonss
sCie experience In aquatics was an
apprenticeship OF two years under
his father at Annapolis.
The younger Glendon, however,
started his work atspicionsly. With
only one veteran OF the previous
year he produced a crew which won
all OF its preliminary matches and
was defeated only. by the Univer-
sity Of Washington at Pough.
Last year was a bad one for
Naval Academy rowing. The crew
failed to develop satisfactorily, and
the crew had to LIE changed with
nearly every race. Toward the eEd
Of the season 1t found itself, and
rowed a. good race against Yale
and the Naval Academy graduates
in the Olympic tryouts.
This year the material is the
finest for q long time and Glen
don, jr., has, Of course, been gath.
ering experience with each sea-
at Annapolis and the third as
varsity coach. It is believed that
he is capable to developing q high
grade crew with such material as
he has this year.
Quite a number Of the crew
candidates belonged to the plebe
crew Of 1922, from which the
present coaches largely formed his
strong varsity crew of 1929. It
viii be the fourth year for these
under the tutelage of Glendon, jr.
The others have worked with him
either one or two season. The
squad, as a whole, has reached the
point where the best results should
be obtained from them.
Glendon will have his charges
at work on the machines and in
the pool by February 1, and win
get them on the water just as soon
as conditions permit. Lieutenant
Commander Billy Greenman, captain
of the Naval Academy crew OF
1912, has been named as rowing
representative of the Navy Athletic
Association, and is proving cap
able and enthusiastic aid to
academy rowing.