The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-28

Still, I can't be restrained from
 making the announcement that old
 Jim Ten Eyck will put well-tutored
 boatload of husky Syracuse oarsmen in the annual Poughkeepsle derby on the Hudson this June.
 You may have heard of Jim Ten Eyck, as he has been around for something like fourscore years. You
 need look no farther than Lincoln's Gettysburg address to learn that fourscore years add up to 80. This will be Ten Eyck's 28th con- secutive year of teaching the Syra- cuse boys how to lean back on an oar. He was made professor of row. ing there in 1904. And while he isn't bragging that this will be his best crew in all that stretch, he does give one the idea that the 1891 Orange
 men won't be beaten by anything less speedy than a power boat. Old Man Confidence
 Many years have passed since the
 ancient rowing professor felt so heartened by group of sweep swingers. Before the war it was his custom to produce @ winner every three or four years. Since 1920, however, he has had to be content with yearling triumphs, of which Syracuse has had four in the last nine summers
 Cornell varsity's big red boat cut down the four-mile course to victory
 a year ago, but trailing them by only a few yards was the Orange shell from Syracuse. Of that eight pared crew, six have returned for at least one more year of rowing under Coach Ten Eyck, while every man who pulled a swepe in the frosh boat
 has returned to bid for the two va cancies. In all, the venerable coach has rallied 21 of the 29 athletes, in- cluding coxswains-and they fall
 under the general heading of ath- letes-who filled the varsity, junior varsity and yearling shells of 1930.
 No matter how you look at it, that
 more than makes up two boatfuls
 for varsity and jay-vee competition. The oft-repeated statement that : rowing is a strain on the heart ships water and sinks before Coach Ten Lyck. He's as sound as dollar after 75 years of it.
 Father and grandfather were champion scullers before the ancient Syracuse coach. If it hadn't been in
 the nature of child to learn to walk at tender age, the Ten Eyck infant IllSnC nave gone out III TOWDOdL
 first. As it was, his father gave him
 a pair of oars on his sixth birthday. During Old Jim's heyday, the pop ular way to train was on rare meats washed down by generous quantities of ale. But when he became a teach
 CT. of the sport, he quickly substi- tuted more common sense diet. eX- cept for one occasion.
 "AngcP' Medicine
 That single occurance was when Old Jim's son was stroking the yearl- | ing crew at Syracuse. Before race,
 Young Jim complained of feeling i'll. 4 He had lost weight and there was a l question about his being able to fill
 of the crew finally persuaded the lad | to stick it out, though he was far from being in good shapew hen they embarked for the starting line. At the starting mark, Old Jim handed his son a bottle labeled Angels Medicine" Taking couple of healthy pulls on the bottle, Young Jim stayed in the boat and pulled his team to victory.
 The old mans loyalty to Syracuse
 is one of the finest things in colle-
 giate sportdom. The years in which
 he developed winning eights brought
 him many fattering offers to coach
 elsewhere. He stayed with Syracuse
 because he was happy there and be- cause of his love for the Seneca river and Lake Onondaga. Furthermore,
 Syracuse wanted him-and they still