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Today's should be an interesting race even if Columbia has not developed enough to make it a close one, for the Lion's style of rowing is the antithesis of that taught here by Tom Bolles. Under a system devised by Old dick 'Pop' Glendon, this Light Blue style involves the use of a slow recovery, a long reach, a long layback...
...Glendon (Henry Hull) is a respectable botanist. On moonlight nights, unless he gets his mariphasa, he turns into a wolfish Mr. Hyde, does his best to strangle his handsome and devoted wife (Valerie Hobson). These habits do not seriously endanger his career until another werewolf (Warner Oland) who has run out of mariphasa flowers tries to steal Dr. Glendon's last blossom. The result is a fight between the two and the liveliest sequence in the picture when Dr. Glendon is shot by a pistol bullet while chasing his wife about their house in an effort to bite...
Died. Richard John ("Rich") Glendon Jr., 38, Columbia University's crew coach since 1926. son of the Naval Academy's famed retired crew coach; of a shotgun wound, declared accidental by a medical examiner; while duck shooting near Chatham, Mass...
...keep up with Washington while the other shells slipped back. For a time Washington kept on gaining, rowing 36 to Navy's 34, but by the end of the second mile Navy was only a length and a half behind, still rowing a lower beat of the long, stylized Glendon stroke. With a mile and a half to go, Navy was less than a length behind, still gaining. The Washington stroke, John Ginger, bothered by having to watch the Navy boat as well as Cornell, stepped up his stroke to 38. In the Cornell boat, Burke had stopped watching Syracuse...
Coach Richard ("Dick") Glendon of Navy, whose son, Richard ("Rich") Glendon Jr. coaches Columbia, had thought well of his crew but was satisfied to watch the race from the observation train. When it was over, pleased at a result which contradicted rumors that he was too old to function, he entrained with his son for their farm on Cape Cod, where he planned to spend the summer playing checkers...