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Richard J. Glendon, Columbia championship crew coach, underwent an appendectomy in Manhattan...
...biggest crew pageant of the year, the Intercollegiate. Before the start it seemed as if the winner would be either California, coached by bespectacled Carroll "Ky" Ebright, stroked by huge Pete Donlan and considered this year's greatest Western crew, or unbeaten Columbia, coached by Richard Glendon Jr., captained by Horace Davenport, considered this year's greatest Eastern crew. Cornell and the Navy were considered worth watching. Few thought there was much chance of a Wisconsin victory because, on account of late ice, Wisconsin did not start rowing this year in good season. Washington, which had beaten Wisconsin...
...supposed chief contenders, California and Cornell, were not even given a chance to trail. Instead, their shells sank and the 32 oarsmen were forced to dive into the rough-watered Hudson, to be picked up by Poughkeepsie police launches. And, as darkness annoyed the radio broadcasters, Junior Glendon's unbeaten Columbia crew shot first across the finish line, with Washington second...
...Glendon coached crews never have raced each other in a dual meet until this year-as you have stated-but in the 1924 Olympic tryouts, Glendon Sr.'s Navy Officers' crew met and defeated "Rich's" midshipmen. Yale, in turn, beat the officers' "Grandfather Eight" by a few yards...
Again Columbia. Richard Glendon Jr. is the only eastern coach who can boast that he has lost no races. Last week his Columbia crews defeated M. I. T. For once, the dirty Harlem River was clear of debris. Columbia's freshman coach is Hugh Glendon, brother of Richard. Hugh, too, has lost no races...