Evening star., 1928-06-16
TUTORS AGE RANGE
IS FROM 70 TO 25
Ten Eyck Oldest for College
Oar Test Tuesday--UI-
Erickson Youngest.
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June lG--About every
existing variety of college rowing coach
will be trying for the intercollegiate
championship in this years race at
Pougnkeepsie next Tuesday.
They are picturesque septet. these
men behind the crews, and all kinds OF
rowing environments bred them-from
the low-lying, salt-scented country up
aries of the Pacific Coast and from the
old school of professional oarsmen to
the present generation who learned
their stuff In college.
Both the intercollegiate champion Co
lnmbia crew and the Navy eight, which
will attempt To regain its old supremacy,
are coached by native products of
part of New England where men still
go down to the sea in ships. They are
the Glendons, father and son-Old Dick
at the Naval Academy and Young Dick
at Columbia. Helping the latter Is his
brother Hugh, whom Rich Is starting
in at Columbia as his father started
him at Annapolis.
West Furnishes Three.
The West with three, has the biggest
representation among the seven head
coaches now assembled on the high
lands of the Hudson TO train for the
big grind and all arc products OF the
University of Washington.
AL UlbricksOn, at IS the youngest
head coach Of rowing in the country,
stroked the Washington eight on the
Hudson two years ago and replaced
Rusty Callow AZ coach this season after
Callow. another of the constrained
coaches. shifted his activities to Penn
sylvania. The third Western-trained
coach at Poughkeepsie Is KY Ebright OF
California, former coXSWain at that
same great rowing institution, Washing
ton.
Outstanding among the coaches OF
the older generation We have Jim Ten
Eyck of Syracuse, now 70 years old and
in his twenty-fifth year as head coach
of rowing at Syracuse. Jim can look
back on lifetime at the oars and still
can hold his own with any man In a
single scull. Light as he was in his
rowing days, he was one OF the best In
the world in his time.
Jim at Syracuse has little help this
year in Charley Whitcside, a former
Orange oarsman, but he still rows the
boat" and his own homely but effective
theories Of making boat go" still are
In force. Syracuse. like the Brooklyn
National League ball club, has had its
greatest rowing success in presidential
years, and Ten Eyck hopes for some
thing on the Hudson despite his drcary
showing in losing three races to the
old Orange rival. Cornell.
Last Of the seven, there Is Jim Wray
Of Cornell. who teaches rowing with a
slightly English slant. This Is his sec
ond year with the Big Red boys and
he has had time now TO get started
the rowing system which enabled Har-
ward to beat Yale six times between
1905 and 1916. when Wray was coach
ing the Crimson.
Each Knows His Rowing.
They learned 1t In strangely different
ways. but all these widely varied types
Of men know their rowing. Each has
his little diosyncracies--the Glendons.
especially Old Dick, like their crews
rigged low with an extreme layback
and kick on the finish of the stroke,
the Washington coaches stress the
smoothness Of the body swing. Ten
Eyck's crews apply the wallop at the
catch and Jam 1t on again at the finish
with a quick flip or feather" OF the
oar as 1t leaves the water. Cornell
feathers more slowly.
Thus the triumph on the Hudson Is
victory for particular coach and his
theories Of rowing as we'll as for this OF
that particular college banner. Last
season the finish was Columbia. Wash
lngton, California, Navy, Cornell, Syra-
cllse and Pennsylvania. How VIII 1t be
this year?