Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-28
WIN, LOSE OR
UkAW By FRANCIS s1ANA
Give a Hand, Anyway

SYRACUSE, JUNE 28-The comeback try most always
is something special Dempsey became idol until
after his defeats by Tunney highway accident
that almost his life to make Hogan popular he is
Babe Zaharas meyer had many friends
There is something about guy doll trying to come
back that stirs people, But what about whole boatload OF
guys On nearby Onondaga Lake today there to be
eight of them trying and probably rowing crew in history
had many rooterS
These of course, would be the Nays "Admiras" who
are the young who swept everything in sight dur
ing their Academy days and then shipped out to Helsn
in 1852 and licked the Russkys. Not many know their
because to pull an oar in crew is to invite ano-
nymity but this "old" Navy one that will be re-
membered.
$3.50
IT IS REMEMBERED as is Native Dancer, who won his
fans via elevson Millions who the gray Dancer
in person thrilled to his comefromb behind victories
Saturday afternoon Fewer people the AdmiraS but
nonetheless the following is there.
Up here in a knowledgeable atmosphere far
racing is concerned people looking the Admrals
longshots. When this Navy crew 81 races in row.
and taught and beat the Russians at the same time
it made wondrous Coach Rusty Callow, dry sort
who wouldn't admit that Ty Cobb could hit until he DELHI
Grated finally called the mdsipmen he coached "the best
shell of all time"
They're all officers now-Bob Detweier Jim Dunbar
Bill Fields Wayne Frye, Charles Manning, Dick Murphy
Henry Proctor Frank Shakespeare Ed Stevens-and
they're here their own shooting for the right to
resent the United States in the 1855 Oympc There isn't
dime in it for any of them. Nothing but callouSe
cramps and monasc fe They four years older than
when they the oympcs in so after taking the Inter-
time in
All are in their midtwenties and earlier this year when
they regrouped and decided to have another at it, they
were for the most part overweight and of course under
trained They got couple of ckngS right off the bat but
in mid-May they showed that old form. They whipped
Penn and Wisconsin the Schuyk for the Stewards Cup
and smashing time trial against Princeton June
Lake Carnegie made up their minds for good They
going all out.
THE ADMIRAIS NO. 2 OAR Bill Fields from Forsythe,
Ca had the poor taste to break his wrist in Soba game
For time he eliminated from the old original SHE'LL
Then he returned his injured wrist encaSed in steel cast
Honestly better with this gadget," Fields said
today. Somehow I get better control"
The hot crews colegiate-Cornel Yale, Washington
and Stanford Most coaches like CornS chances although
they put Cornell and the Admiras and Yale in group.
"Its going to be awfuy close" is the popular word.
Not until late this afternoon there any chance of
knowing how the old AdiraS would fare and then
thing will be botched-up affair, according to the
coaches Seems that for the Olympic trials the socaled
"Admrals" Cornell Washington and Stanford sched-
uled to meet in one opening heat.
Coach Calow who has postponed his retirement
his top. You've got to finish onetwo to qualify the
semnals Friday" he complained I'm the other heat
there's only Yale and Wisconsin The third that
is the Detroit Boat Club which admittedly planning
token race"
What it all adds up to, apparently is that the Admrals
will have to do the hard way if they to win, and
Calow who may be the best rowing coach in the land
mite bitter about it all.