Show COLUMBIA IS WINNER OVER COAST ENTRY Poughkeepsie Classic Sees Dark Horse Defeat Favorites N N. Y June 30 P By The Associated Press CO Press Co Columbia lumbia was out of the tiie Intercollegiate rowing wilderness today on the sweep of or the Glendon Olendon stroke After Alter thirteen long years ears of ot famine seasons In which hopes had been lift lift- lifted lifted ed cd high only to t fall shattered when the big test came the New YorkerS Yorker found the magic touch yesterday esterday and won the thc Intercollegiate varsity four- four fourmile fourmile mile championship with the youngest crew that ever er battled for blue ribbon of or rowing Since 1914 when Columbia last won the varsity title her crews have had a habit of cracking at critical moments This j 3 years year's ears ear's old 19 j 19 old car aggregation not only refused to crack but rowed the heart out of the crack California eight and the Naval acad acad- academy academy emy twin favorites before the race and then flashed nashed a startling exhibition tion of or finishing grit and speed td to beat off orr the final of or the championship Washington crew The Washingtonians went down like Uke the champions they were fighting fight fight- fighting ing but they were mastered by a crew that harnessed harne sed speed form farm and steadiness with an unconquerable spirit and strategy strat gy ordinarily reserved for oarsmen far beyond be ond their tender years jears The victory of or this startling Co Co- Columbia Columbia Co- Co lumbia combination was dime novel stuff It out did the most heroic stories ot of youthful fiction Its achievement in only two years jears of or the coaching by Rich Glendon Olendon head coach and his father Old DICK originator or the me stroke reflected remarkable tribute to the teaching skill of these masters mas mas- masters whose system m produced three championship Poughkeepsie eights at atthe atthe atthe the Navy before going to Columbia I Six of or the eight victorious oarsmen In lit addition to their little coxswain were In the championship freshman crew developed by Glendon last sea sea- son Most of them came to Colum Colum- Columbia Columbia Columbia bia with little or no previous pre rowing experience with the exception of their completion and sophomore stroke Eric Lambart of New York They had been beaten over short distances earlier In the season by Yale Princeton and the Naval acad acad- academy emy But Poughkeepsie was their main objective In reaching It these sophomores soph soph- sophomores aided by one junior and one senior six sir of the country's country most formidable crews while Lam Lam- Lambart Lambart Lambart bart and some of the greatest oarsmen of or this day among them the Navys Navy's famous pace setter Tom Eddy |