Australian Rowing
Australian Rowing. A Country Which Has Produced Such Scullers As Beach And Searle, Not To Mention Trickett, Laycock, Kemp, Niel Son, Stanbury, And Many Others Of Less Calibre, May Well Claim A Place In A Work Treating Of The Science And Art Of Rowing. In The Limits Of A Chapter ...
Boatbuilding In Australia
Boatbuilding In Australia. It Was The Opinion Of Hanlan That In The Matter Of Boats And Sculls He Had Never Been So Well Served As By Donnelly And Sullivan Of Sydney, A Judgment As Regards Sculls Endorsed By Beach And Searle. Chris. Nielsen, The Sculler, Has Brought Out A Boat ...
College Rowing At Cambridge
College Rowing At Cambridge. The Casual Visitor Would Scarcely Imagine That Cambridge Resembled Either Macedon Or Monmouth In The Possession Of A River. He Sees In The Backs What Looks Rather Like A Huge Moat, Designed To Keep Marauders From The Sacred College Courts, And Filled With Discoloured Water, Destitute ...
College Rowing At Oxford
College Rowing At Oxford. If We Try To Examine The Causes Of Success Or Failure, Of A Run Of Good Crews Or Bad Crews From One University Or The Other, It Is Sible To Overestimate The Importance Of Good Ization, Good Management, And Friendly Rivalry In The College Boat Clubs. ...
Combined Oarsmanship In
Combined Oarsmanship In Now That The Novice Has Been Safely Launched In His Racing-ship, We May Hark Back For A Space And Consider Some Important Points Connected With The Organization And Management Of An Eight-oared Crew. And First As To Its Selection And Arrangement. As A General Rule, It May ...
Combined Oarsmanship In Eights
Combined Oarsmanship In Eights. The Novice, Having Passed Successfully Through His Period Of Apprenticeship, Is By This Time Ready, Let Us Suppose, To Be Included In An Eight-oared, Sliding-seat Crew, Either For His College Or For The Rowing Club To Which He May Happen To Belong. He Will Marvel At ...
First Lessons On Fixed
First Lessons On Fixed Seats. 35 " We Sit Upon Our Lexicons As Happy As A King' (we Refer You To The Picture), And We Practise How To Swing ; We Go Every Day To Chapel, We Are Never, Never Late, And We Exercise Our Backs When There, And Always ...
First Lessons On Fixed
First Lessons On Fixed Seats Rowing. If The Tiro Who Aspires To Be An Oarsman Has Ever Seen A Really Good Eight-oared Crew In Motion On The Water, He Will Probably Have Been Impressed Not So Much By The Power And The Pace Of It As By The Remarkable Ease ...
First Lessons On Sliding
First Lessons On Sliding Seats Let Me Assume (i Am Still Addressing My Imaginary Novice) That You Have Passed Through The First Few Stages Of Your Novitiate. If You Are An Oxford Or A Cambridge Freshman You Will Have Been Carefully Drilled In A Tub-pair, Promoted Later To A Freshmen's ...
Four Oars And Pair Oars Swivel Rowlocks
Four-oars And Pair-oars--swivel Rowlocks. A Good Coxswainless Four-oared Crew Sents Skill And Watermanship, As Guished From Mere Brute Strength, In Their Highest Development. I May Lay It Down As An Axiom That Any Man Who Can Row Well In A Swainless Four Will Row Equally Well In An Oared Crew. ...
Introduction To Rowing
Introduction To Rowing. My Object In The Following Pages Will Be Not Merely To Give Such Hints To The Novice As May Enable Him, So Far As Book Learning Can Effect The Purpose, To Master The Rudiments Of Oarsmanship, But Also To Commend To Him The Sport Of Rowing From ...
Measurement Of Oars Rowing
Measurement Of Oars Rowing. On This Matter There Is Now A Great Divergence Of Opinion Amongst Rowing Men. From 1891 Inclusive Up To The Present Year, The Leander Crews Have, With Trifling Divergences, Rowed With Oars Built On The Following Measurements :— Ft. Inq (i) Length Over All . . ...
Measurements Of An Eight Oared
Measurements Of An Eight-oared Racing-boat. For Purposes Of Convenience, I Have Taken The Following Measurements From A Boat Built By Rough For Leander, In 189r. In That Year She Carried A Very Heavy Crew, Who Won The Grand Challenge Cup At Henley In Record Time. She Repeated Her Grand Challenge ...
Pace
Pace. There Comes A Time In The History Of Every Crew When, Having Been Plodding Along Comfortably At Thirty-four, They Suddenly Realize That The Race Is Barely A Week Off, That If They Are To Have Any Chance Of Success They Must Raise The Stroke, And That They Don't Know ...
Public School Rowing
Public School Rowing. The Principal Rowing Schools In New South Wales Are The Church Of England Grammar School, North Shore, The Sydney Grammar School, And St. Ignatius College. Under The "athletic Association Of The Great Public Schools " An Annual Regatta Is Held On The Parramatta River In May. The ...
Recent Controversy Are Athletes
Recent Controversy: Are Athletes Healthy - Views On The Training Of Oarsmen. It Would Not Be Right, I Think, To Send Forth A New Book On Rowing Without Referring To The Controversy That Has Recently Been Carried On In The Columns Of The St. James's Gazette Under The General Title ...
Rowing Ailments
Rowing Ailments. I May Preface What I Have To Say About By Stating, As Emphatically As It Can Be Stated, That Every Man Who Proposes To Take Part In A Race Ought, Before He Begins Practice, To Be Thoroughly Overhauled By A Medical Man. I Do Not Believe That Any ...
Rowing Aquatic Axioms
Rowing Aquatic Axioms. I May Add Here Some Axioms Which Have Been Printed Before,* But Which I May Venture To Repeat In A Treatise On Rowing. The Years That Have Passed Since They Were First Set Down Have Not Weakened My Conviction That They Are Accurate. I Still Believe Myself ...
Rowing Discipline
Rowing Discipline. Not The Least Important Point In The Manage Ment Of A Crew Lies In The Preservation Of Strict Discipline. While They Are In The Boat And En Gaged In Rowing, No Man, Except The Captain Or The Cox, Should Speak A Word, Unless He Is Appealed To By ...
Rowing Leisure Time
Rowing Leisure Time. It Seems A Mere Platitude To Say That A Man Who Can Occupy His Spare Moments In Writing Or Reading Is Likely To Be Happier And More Even-tempered Than One Who Is Never Seen With A Book Or A Pen In His Hand. Yet It Is A ...
Rowing Paddling Technique
Rowing Paddling Technique. Paddling Should Be To Rowing What An Easy Trot Is To Racing Speed On The Cinder-path. A Crew When Paddling Is Not Intended To Exert Itself Unduly, But To Move At A Comfortable Pace Which Excludes Any Sense Of Fatigue, And Enables The Men To Give Their ...
Rowing Position Number 7
Rowing Position Number 7. This Position Is Every Whit As Important As That Of Stroke. Indeed, I Have Known Many Crews That Were Made By A Good No. 7, In Spite Of An Inferior Or An Inexperienced Stroke. Of The Converse I Cannot At This Moment Remember Any Instances. No. ...
Rowing Rate Of Stroke
Rowing Rate Of Stroke. The Practice Rate For Paddling Ought Not In The Early Stages To Be Less Than Twenty-eight To The Minute, Which You May Raise Two Points When Rowing Hard. Later On, When Your Men Are Doing Their Rowing Work At Thirty-six Or More, And When They Are, ...
Rowing Sculling
Rowing Sculling. In Writing An Article On Sculling, A Sculler Must Of Necessity Be Egotistical. He Can Only Speak Of What He Himself Feels To Be The Correct Way Of Doing Things, And Cannot Judge Of How A Different Man Feels Under The Same Circumstances. I Fore Put In A ...
Rowing Staleness
Rowing Staleness. In The Practice Of Almost Every Crew There Comes A Period, Generally About Half Way Through Train Ing, When They Begin To Show The Effects Of Hard Work By A Certain Lassitude And Loss Of Vigour. This, In Fact, Is Not Genuine Staleness, But Is The Half-way House ...
Rowing Steering Somehints
Rowing Steering - Some Hints To Novice Coxswains Many People Think That Any One, Provided He Be Of The Proper Weight, Is Fitted To Fill The Post Of Coxswain. Nobody, However, Knows Better Than The Actual Rowing Man What An Amount Of Useless Labour And Irritation A Crew Can Be ...
Rowing Stroke
Rowing Stroke. For Stroke I Like A Man Of Not More Than Twelve Stone. A Few Good Strokes, E.g. The Late Mr. J. H. D. Goldie, Have Topped This Weight By A Few Pounds. But A Real Heavy-weight Is Almost In Variably Slow And Lacking In Initiative When Placed At ...
Rowing Swivel Rowlocks
Rowing Swivel Rowlocks. There Has Been, During The Past Year, A Move Ment In Favour Of Using Swivel Rowlocks, Not Only In Sculling-boats, But Also In Pairs, Fours, And Eights, Though The Majority Of English Oarsmen, Even When Inclined To Use Them In Pairs And Fours, Set Their Faces Against ...
Rowing Training And Diet
Rowing Training And Diet. The Rules Of Training And Diet Should Be The Rules Of Common Sense, Applied To Cases In Which The Body Has To Prepare Itself, By Severe Work And Perfectly Simple, Healthy Living, For An Exceptional Effort Or Series Of Efforts. Rules There Must Be, If Only ...
Rowing At Eton College
Rowing At Eton College. In Most Books That Have Been Published On Rowing Matters, A Chapter Has Been Devoted To Rowing At Eton. But These Accounts Have Been Mainly Of A Historical Nature, And Have Not, I Think, Dealt Sufficiently With The Career Of An Eton Boy, From The Time ...
Rowing In America
Rowing In America. The Sport Of Rowing, As I Gather From Mr. Caspar Whitney's Well-known Book," Was In Its Infancy In America When It Had Already Taken A Prominent Place Amongst Our Amateur Athletic Exercises In England. The Detroit Boat Club, Established In 1839, Was The First Rowing Organization In ...
Rowing The Day Of
Rowing The Day Of The Race. On This Tremendous Day, Towards Which All Their Efforts For Weeks Past Have Been Directed, The Coach Will Find That All His Crew Are Suffering From That Peculiar To Which Rowing Men Have Given The Name Of "the Needle." It Is A Complaint Against ...
Rowing The Necessity Of
Rowing The Necessity Of Having A Butt. Let Me Turn Now To Lighter Matters, For There Are Lighter Matters Connected With Rowing. And First Let Me Insist On The Necessity Of Having A Butt In A Crew. It Appears Strange At First Sight That The System Of Training—that Is To ...
Rowing The Race
Rowing - The Race. " I Shall Say, Are You Ready?' Once ; If I Receive No Answer, I Shall Say, Go ! ' " It Is The Voice Of The Umpire Addressing Us From The Steam Launch In Which He Will Follow The Race. He Must Be A Man ...
The Key Combined Oarsmanship
The Key Combined Oarsmanship In Eights From The Hints Given In The Preceding Chapter It Will Have Been Gathered That Good Are Of All Sizes And Weights. But It Must Not Be Forgotten That No Small Part Of The Motive-power Of A Crew Comes From Heavy Men. By Weight I ...
University Rowing
University Rowing. There Are Three Universities Of Australia—those Of Sydney, Melbourne, And Adelaide. Racing Was First Instituted When Sydney And Melbourne Met On The Water Of The Latter In String Test Gig Fours Over A Three And A Half Miles Course. In The Following Year They Met On The Parramatta. ...