The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
L ALKING
IT OVER
by JOE WILLIAMS.

DOUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June II
4 Its about time they changed
the name Of this regatta and called
it the Glendon family outing. If
one Of the Glendons doesn't win It.
the other does.
Tuesday the old man won II with q
NAVY crew IN a steady rain and behind
curtains Of fog that all but hid the climax
from tie comparatively few thousands
that Allied the observation cars and lined
the banks The time was pretty close to a
record performance. is:54f-5 seconds
some twenty seconds higher than the best
This made the sixth Poughkeepsie the
two Clendons-Old Dick and Young Dick
have split between them in the last ten
years and adds further emphasis 70 tbs
efficacy Of the system Of padding. which
is peculiar to them.
OF course. old Dick didn't do any actual
padding on the river himself. being ca
years OF age and his active padding days
having long been over. But 1t seems 70
be custom IN rowing to give al the
credit 70 the coach and so IL vas not IN
usual that at late hour Tuesday night
the lobby Of the Nelson house still shook
and shivered to the hooplas and whooplaS
touched of BY ford faced middles to the
genius Of the veteran New England sea-
man.
Perhaps this stressIng Of the Importance
OF the coach is something the Carneigie
Foundation detectives should look into. AZ
any rate the personnel OF a rowing crew
is private and personal matter that /,
known only to immediate relatives and
close friends.
Still in studying the makup OF the Navy
boat. I found that while the young men
as padders were practically unknown. a
number OF them had high standing as
football players. including Gray at bow,
and Erson at six. stefandies at five and
Crinkley at four. all Of whom were var
sity men last fall.
DUT Tuesday they were just a
ID group Of muscular young men
padding Old Dick Glendon's skiff,
and when the race was over and
that eerie tumble Of moaning
whistles had died down over the
gray belly of the Hudson, it was Old
Dick, who had not even been out
in the rain, who became the lion
of the moment, and not the young
men who had smashed their way
over the four mile course to register
the most surprising upset Of the
year.
7 am told that a little later in the
evening Old Dick went over to the Navy
boat house and told the young men how
proud he was OF them and it may be
that this is all an oarsman ever expects
or wants but 1t does seem that the pub
lie distribution OF homage could be a
little more evenly distributed. After all,
what will the Russians think.
Nevertheless it was a fine victory for
the Navy boat and q fine comeback for
Old Dick who was thought to be out
moded and. II you believe all you hear,
was merely being carried along at Ann
apolis as a sort Of sentimental gesture.
1t was at the Navy that Old Dick began
his coaching career back in 1904, and
that was many years ago by anybody S
calendar.
Very few people figured Old Dick or
the Navy boat had chance to win Tues
day. The combination had started four
times and had been whipped three. Their
only victory was scored over M. I. T.,
and very little Importance was attached
to this victory because M, I. T. Is by way
Of being a sort Of Pat Redmond among
the racing shells.
C,d Dick made a couple OF shifts in his
boating before the race and sent the
young men out on the water with his
blessing and with the abjuration mot
to sink whatever you do" year ago,
the Navy boat was caught by the back
wash OF patrol boats and swamped. 1t
was different story this year.