Last week Navy's crew coach Richard Glendon telegraphed to Columbia's coach: "I can't lose and may win the Navy-Columbia race." He couldn't lose because Columbia's coach is Richard Glendon Jr. Any victory would be a Glendon victory.
But if Glendon Sr. did not lose his race, neither did he win it. At the end of the race Columbia's crew sat up very straight and flattened their oars as crews do when they finish first. Three lengths behind them the Navy men were still rowing. A little later they too flattened their oars but...
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