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Show ROWING OUTLOOK NOT BRIGHT Coach Jim Rice Predicts It Will Be at Least Year Before Normal Conditions Con-ditions Are Resumed. Jim Rice, formerly coach of the Columbia Co-lumbia university crews, who is hibernating hiber-nating in New York, thinks that it will take at least a year to get back to anything any-thing like a normal basis in rowing, and he does not expect to see any of the big regattas at Poughkeepsie or New London until 1920. Judging by the action of the basketball league in deciding not to play a championship series this year, one is inclined to think that Rice has stated the case properly. There will be rowing at the colleges next spring, according to Rice, but it will be on a more or less informal I? y 0 u A - d y y,,- ) t - vy ; I t 1 i Sf' 1 x I t rt S- . 1 .y i f r - s I kyy-.y c,- v: "y ' v.y:. vy ;pV,vy'y - Coach Jim Rice. . scale, with all races limited to two miles or thereabouts. This will make for smaller expenses, will call for less material and will do away with many of the frills which have heretofore surrounded sur-rounded college rowing. It will be a good beginning. The more so because it is likely to lead to some real reforms. |