Show ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ROWING SYSTEMS ale V 8 G X coach vivian of of vivian Nic nickalas kalls former coach of tho the university of pennsylvania crows crews Is 13 not obsessed with tho the idea that till any y ono one particular prescription Is tho the only proper ono one for propelling an eight red ired shall A favorite winter sport always revived at intervals but esac V coach rice of columbia dally popular in tho the last laet three years sears has been discussion as aa to whether the english or american rowing system Is superior some borne of tho the literature which tills haa been written along these dittes would convince the credulous that there Is a definite national school for every movement proscribed prescribed here or in the house of commons on patriotic lings la Is not oppressed with any such buell notion 1 I have been learning about rowing long enough to realize that I 1 still have a lotof lot of things to learn said tho the penn coach all this talk about rowing being a question oc at nationality Is hard tor for mo me to understand and none ot of the other good american coaches choln I 1 have come la in contact with seems io fo pay much attention to it when you on put eight men in ili a shell it matter from tho the standpoint of at technique whether they are british Ame american or hottentots Hotten tots the job they have to attend to Is to pull their shell over the finish line a winner I 1 never noticed many good crows developed on oil the tho theory that the oars men were performing a national patriotic exercise of course when it ft spert develops in two distant sections of 0 tile the world differences in ili style are bound to crop up it p I 1 thin la Is generally true that more poop ye ve a deri definite nito idea ot of what may eldered as good rowing form lu ili t arttns artt and nd than in ili america that th it Is probably because more row for pleasure yle asuro a 02 the other side when it comes to coaches men like jimmy rice and charlie courtney Court noy 1 I dont notice them striving to maili e the stroke they teach different from someone elsos they aro are all trying to get the best out of their crows in ili tile past few years especially whatever differences may have existed between american and english ideas of have tended moro more arid and more to disappear 1 I think england learned a lot from american crews which have lave rowed oi on the other side and perhaps some of the american crows crews who made tho the trip picked up a bit of knowledge over there for my own part I 1 have been learning something about rowing every day I 1 have hava been in this country it if 1 over ever reach tho the stage where I 1 think I 1 know all there Is to know about tho tha rowing game it will be about time for pennsylvania to gently lose mo me and aal get a new coach |