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Rowing.

THE BHORT STROKE. Raving men st Henley, says a Home paper, are finding there is something to farn from foreign competitors, after all. The result of the final in the Grand Challenge Cup has caused most of the old critics to change their minds re

the short stroke. When the first

Crow came to Henley they were not able to win the blue ribbon, but they did demonstrato, that without protenos to style their pace was good, and when in 1906 and 1907 they succeeded in carrying off the Grand Challenge Cup many English experts considered that the short stroke should be adopted by English clube, Io 1808 no Belgian crow competed, but this yee the Belgians have woe in no uncertain fashion, and the old Varsity hands who

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longer stroke would probably tell; but

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