Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-29
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DOWN ON THE SEVERN RIVER off Annapolis tomorrow
the curtain rises of the few remaining truly amateur
sports Navy top rowing of times and conqueror
Russia in the 1852 Olympics goes up against Cornell and
Syracuse and the tip is out that Cornell especially
least hold its with boat seeking its 3st consecutive
victory.
But after the chartcaing and the finish there will
small ceremony at the boathouse where polishing rights
the Clifford (Tp) Goes Trophy will be assigned the
winner AS prizes would be just another piece Of fancy
metal it not committed the memory OF three
the greatest in American rowing all coaches TwoPop
Courtney and Jim Ten Eyckare dead The third Old Dick
Glendon will be celebrating his seth birthday
To crew folk these Abner Doubleday, Connie
Mack and Clark Griffith baseball and Alonzo Stage,
Knute Rockne and Pop Warner in football This fabulous
rowing trio represents SO OF intercollegiate racing
claims "a Poughkeepsie championships and probably sets of
more oasman stories than dozen crew figures in history
CHARLES E. (POP) COURTNEY came first He coached
at Cornell for 80 and jumped contract
to to rowing foundry the promise more grants
n-ad athletes there such things Courtney was
the greatest sculler of his time and under won
SO of 46 races of varying distances and conditions Seven
clean sweeps OF IRA regaas than
by another institution, fell to Cornell Courtney.
rowing coach has be almost incurable devotee of
the sport because is often labor of love- Courtney
proved There time back in 1888 when Cornell owed
Coach Courtney $125 in back salary student rally
for the purpose Of raising the money Pop Courtney
not much concerned with what the season
coming up Thus he was introduced follows:
THE famous and highly successful coach has agreed
Corne chances for the and that
not defeat Pennsylvania Columbia will coach her for
nothing!"
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DICK GLENDoN QUITE PROPERLY was spawned at
Cape Cod At the turn of the century prominent
tonan suggested Naval Academy officials that Gendon
be engaged rowing coach. One of his supporters
Charles Francis Adams, who later may may not have
become Secretary of the Navy under President Coolidge
the strength of knowing how to pick rowing coach
They gave Glendon trial at Annapolis. He came in
coach Columbia for four But it at Navy that he did
the big job Gndon made the Naval Academy the power
then that it is today under Rusty Calow
One of Gendon'S good early shells stroked by a
midshipman named Chester Nitz Later the Navy
became better until the peak reached in 1920
Old Dick took Annapolis boat to Belgium and the
Olympic gold medal Thrtytw years later Caow duplicated
the feat but with Russia thrown in the nalist to add
interest and drama.
RowING's GREATEST NAME, however was that of James
Ten Eyck who coached at Navy from 1899 1901 then
shifted Syracuse for IS One after he charge
of the Orange he produced Poughkeepe champion which
Is the rowing equivalent breeding Kentucky Derby winner
Ten Eyck started rowing 1854 He his first that
year at the of 49, Twenty-Five later he and three
other oarsmen combined to win the worlds four-oared
championship
cannot be said that old rowers never die They do
but only gradually In 1917 when Ten Eyck &C. he had
to prove to himself that he still could paddle himself
distance he rowed from Syracuse to Albany via the Erie
Canal and Mohawk River then down the Hudson to New
York-a distance of $50 miles. When he 10 he
raced physical culture exponent from New York to Albany
TEN EYCK 1888 but in that year as in so manv
Others he had to hesitate before he state his age He
kept track of it, 1.-THE only way can remember" he
once sad alphabetically is that born the year that
America won its first International Cup Race-lS51"
Two before he died. when Ten Eyck S. spring
floods covered the Syracuse boathouse with of water
This meant the Orange shells had transferred to hot
dog stand located higher ground Ten Eyck permit
no one except himself to the boat which
at time through the tricky food waters bridge abuments
ah0 Tho dopo
1t considered shell so feet long and almost egg like in
fragility it quite a feat.
Rowing his fe just the Pop Courtney
and Dick Gendon. While the oxygen machine pumping
into him the last few beath Of e Eyck heard
say, "what way for oarsman to eat"