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Show VETERAN SCULLING RACE IS PLANNED New York, N. Y., March 25. James H. Reilly, the one-time sculling champion, cham-pion, is planning for a veteran's race on Saratoga lake next August. Reilly Reil-ly came Into prominence again two years ago by rowing Jim Ton Eyck. coach of the Syracuse crew, a match race at Saratoga, According to the plan announced by Riley no oarsman under sixty will be allowed to compete. com-pete. The distance probably will be a mile. The men whom he has already invited in-vited are Pat Luther, Fred Plaistead, the old Yale rigger; Jim Ten Eyck, Syracuse coach; George Falkner of Boston; Charles E. Courtney, coach of the Cornell crews; John Kennedy, the retired Yale coach; Mike Davis of Boston; Ellis Ward, the retired coach of the University of Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia crews, and John F. Scholcs of Toronto, To-ronto, father of the winner of the diamond sculls. Ellis Ward is the veteran of the lot, having passed the seventy-fourth milestone. |