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ROWING: THE SUPREME SPORT.

DEAN SWANN'S ADURESS AT, ROTARY CLUB:

A MENTAL TRIP TO CAMBRIDGE.

THRILLS OF THE UNIVERSITY

BOAT RACE.

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At the Rotary Club tin yesterday, the Very Reverend Dean Alfrend Swann gave an interesting pådress on "Rowing" in the course of which he gave his audience a clear insight into the.. exacting natura of this sport, the preparations necessary before at- taining any measure of success and the wide intereat taken in

·England in the University. Bon't Race.

The speaker gave claborate details of the training of University oarsmon and spoke of the joy and satisfaction which the earning of a rowing blue entailed.

In introducing the speaker," the Hon. Mr. Shenton, who presid- ed, said Rotarian Swann did not take up rowing seriously un- til he went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is a member of a famous rowing family. His father, the Rov, B. Swann, rowed for Cambridge, and his brother, Archdeacon Swann, rowed" for Cambridge. Rotarian Swann, himself in his turn, rowed for Cambridge, I believe I am correct in saying that that record of 'n father and two sons' rowing for their University has never been beaten.

Among the many victories to Rotarian Swann's credit, I should like to mention, in particular, that in the year 1815 herowed for England. ogninat various countries and in 1920 he rowed for Cambridge University, which is the highest ambi tion to which any rowing man can rise, either for Oxford or Cambridge.

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Referring to the trophies exhibited on the wall, the chairman said that they included one for single aculla, double sculls, four cars and eight oars,

"I believe that unless Rotarian Swann exhibits these trophies. again, you will never see such, a record again.".

TRAINING OF 'VARSITY CREWS.

Fixed-Seat Bawing,

wrong. Here, comea în again the discipline of rowing. The coach, in all probability, will deliver him self of some extremely personal re- marks, but the object of them, never, dreams of answering back.

Day after day this boat goes outs and forty or fifty others like it, no matter what the weather. Ne- thing whatever, short of illness or the freezing over of the river, in- terferes with the daily practice. The foetballer perhaps plays only two or three days a wook, and for

at a time the ground is im days possible so that he may then play golf, or motor or take his chạc.. The cricketer can only play when it is fine, and more than a drop of rain sends him hurrying to the pavil tion. But the rowing man has to turn up every single day in term time from. October to June, hail, rain or snow.

A Hard Service.

Rowing at the Varsities is un- questionably a hard service, but, like other strict disciplines, it brings out the best in a man and prepares him for the still stórner disciplines of life which lie before him

Alcanwhile, as practice proceeds, the crew gradually becomes more uniform, and less energy is thrown away uselessly All good coaching is directed towards the attainment of maximum efficiency in the ex- penditure of energy. And uniform. ity is, a aine qua uan of good rowing. A crew of unpolished oars who are doing their work together will always beat a crew which though better individually, are ap- pying their power raggedly.

The freshman has his first taste of battle towards the end of the October term and then he looks forward to the Lent Races in the following: term. Already he is hoping to be in his College first boat. Ambition, the constant spur of the oarsmap, is at work. And the ambition of the average days. man ia remarkable in that it fre quently flourishes in very indiffer- ent success. Although, for every frealiman, the coveted "blue" is tho goal before him, the great majority con recognise that it is going to keenness in no way flaga, There be beyond their reach. "Yet their are many rungs in the ladder of Cambridge rowing success. The "blue" is at the top, the trial cap comes next, then the College first May Boat Colours, then the first Lent Boat. There are also many, into the air and deposits him igao-won. But apart from all these occassional University races to be miniously on his back in the bot tem of the boat.

The Dean's address whe 口白: follows-My subject to-day is go- The freshman is put first into a ing to take you away from all the tub pair with fixed seats. Here lie more sericus concerns of life, and starts to learn how to hold his oar: away from the range of subjects then, how to keep it at the proper which generally engage our atten- angle, so that when he takes a tion. When I was asked to talk stroke the blade neither runs down on rowing, I was rather doubtful to the bottom of the river and re- whether I eculd make it interestsults in a "crab," nor flies out ing to a body of men for the ma jority of when an occupation cf such physical violence as rowing has passed out of the field of pus- aibility. But on reflection 1 thought that for this very reason you might enjoy it F

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I want you to imagine that you are in England and coming with me down to the River. We will go first to the Cam at Cambridge, then to the Thames,

I chose this date to speak on row- ing because I knew that Henley Regatta would be just over, and that would give me a point from which to start. But I have found that if I am to give you any sort of an idea of what rowing involves I shall have to limit myself pretty strictly, and actually there 18 g ing to be no time, I fear, to em hark at Henley.

dan river clubs must also forgive me for confining myself to Univer, sity Rowing.ENDAR.

Cambridge.

there is for every man in every boat the glittering possibility of He must then begin to learn how races, and, if four bumps are made, making a bump in Lent or May to keep his feet firm on the stret-of hanging up his proudly em cher. This is perhaps the most fun- blazoned car in triumph on his wall, damental of all the arts of rowing. Even the fifth Lent boat, composed The stroteher is to the carsman perhaps of Rugger men, making a, what the concrete bed is to the light-hearted descent upon the power plant; if he is not firmly river, may gain this triumph, and based upon it he cannot fail to be it is one that is never forgotten. ineffective..

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Silding Seat Bowing.

We must pass on to the May races and rowing on sliding seats. But arst I had better say something about racing boats.

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Having begun to balance on his feet and to keep them still as he takes his stroke, the novice must learn to swing properly. He is taught first on a fixed soat with the express purpose of making him swing. And yet he must use hig

Rowing is first learnt, as we have ege to drive his body over. And seen, in a tub pair. This is a here is literally, where the rubbcat which the landsman knows as camies. If you go round to the "akiff." Its purpose is to pro room" of any rowing freshman in

vide a stable craft for instruction. I am going to take you to the

An evening in the October term The beginner then 'goes out in a Cam and to Putney, and 1 must you will find him prone in his arm clinker built eight. This is a com- ask Oxford men to forgive me for ebair using the seat as a mero paratively heavy boat, built cf. taking them to their rival. Any back rest with the rest of his ball lapping one another. These over- longitudinal planks, slightly over- Rotarians also who are or have son overhanging ac that it shall been interested in the great Lon-touch nothing. He is feeling Ex-lapping planks offer some resist

actly as he probably did at school ance to the boat's rolling, like a after a good licking. In fact he number of small bilge keela.. is extremely sore, and he wenders kind of boat. therefore, is suitable how on earth lẻ is going to row for more: elementary rowing. In. to-morrow and what possessed him the Lent races these beats are used, te do thie thing. But this is ons Incidentally they are also used by of the many disciplines of Yowing tho Bont Clubs here, but in this He will row to-morrow no matter case, I would hasten to add, they how sore he is. And, pain cr no are of course only used because of pain, the oarsman must know to their strength in rough water i use his legs to drive his body over. The Mays, which always take and back, and by far the best way place, inccngruously enough, at,the to learn this combined movement, beginning of June, are the prin- in the opinion of orthodox oarsmon, cipal inter-College races, and they

is to are rowed in what we call light want to give you some idea of what completed the elbows begin to bend with which I certainly agree, i begin to row on a fixed scat

ships. By the time an oarsman Bowing on a fixed sent is not is promoted to this type of boat nearly so much fun as that on he must have eradicated all his is sliding seat rowing slides, but it makes an invaluable cruder faults These boats are foundation. At the Varsities, something over sixty feet in length where the discipline learnt at and not more than one foot eleven school is still strong, this can be inches in ben, and they are ex- insisted upon. The London Hiver tremely light for their site Feur cubs do not demand it, because normal members of a crew cou stool all day and treat rowing as a In this camp the boat ja made of

Picture yourself, then, at Cam- bridge at the beginning of the Octo- ber Term. The leaves are falling from the great trees along the Backs and there is a jolly nip 10 the air. The Backs of the Colleges at this time of year, in the summer as in the Spring, are a glory to behold, but this is the setting for punts and canoes and other offemi nate craft. We are going to the lower river where more serious busi ness is afoot, all the year round.

Down Jesus Lane we find ourse, Ives in a stream of bikes and motor bikes all making for the river. A we cross Mid-summer Common we soon see a row of boat houses, out apparently no river. If we had be no river to row on, and when

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The Stroke

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movement up and down spoils the. stroke.

When about half the stroke is

is involved in a single good stroke so that from that moment slide and

thu finish. The finish occure when

Imagine the boat already under body and arms are converging to weigh, and 'et us take one indivi the knees are driven hard down, dual and watch his position and the body has swung to about thirty mcvements from the beginning of degroos past the vertical and the the stroke to the beginning of the bands ronch the chest, the elbows

slide is "full forwards, siden. A that is, perversely in its aftermost

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bargos as at Oxford there would men who have to sit on an office lift their boat above their heads. ranged being firmly drawn back pase the

you catel eight at last of same

In Training

water, you wonder that Can Picasantry, very naturally fib at a skin of wood, caly, an nighth of position. The feet, and oxpscially Then the preparation for the next -

the initial purgatory involved.

an inch

shaped over the the heels are firmly pressed against have the cheek to call this thing a

framework of ribs, and keelson, and the stretcher. The back is straight, river. It is more like an ordinary A Crock Eights..

the skin is French polished to a but not rigid since pass and loose canal, and the water is moving. Having bad their spell of tubbing high degree, with the result that nuss are essential, and the body is just about as fast. This, as a mat your freshmen are put into it presents an exceedingly smooth pressed down between the knees as ter of fact, is because although the crock eight and let loose upon surface to the water, reducing fric- for a lung practice and physical Beat houses are fifty miles from the river. The boat wallows and tion and its resultant head-resis fitness will allow it comfortably to the sen they are, only fifty feet rulls its riggers: almost under tence to a minimum but also mak-go. The arms also are straight, above it, and most of this fall is water: knuckles hit the gunwale ing it a much less stable craft than, effected by means of locks, and skin is scraped off the knees; the clinker-built boat,"

However, inspite of the inade blistered hands are nimcat as sore In order to achieve any degree quacy of the river, a great deal of as skinned tails, water flies in all of offimency in a light ship," an activity is already evident upon it directions Somo blades merely oncaman must lieve acquired a con- Up and down the river boats called slap the water while others grout siderable mosaurs of skill

ts of skill in waters "tub pairs" are moving In each up the river bottom. No two ours manship. are two freshmen being couched by ontor er leiva the water together,Light ships are always fitted asonlor undergraduate. The first no two bodies or pairs of wrists with sliding sants. The sliding sont elementa of the art of rowing are move simultaneously. It is a pain- nct only adds much to the possible length of stroke, but also greatly you imagine that there cannot be very now and then the crew increase the www which may be much in propelling a boat through "casted" and the coach, getting applied to the par, since the legs the water, but you very socnoff his bicycle on the towpath uses now not only lift the body cvar, change this opinion when you be, the interval of stability to point as in the case of the fixed Boat, but

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stroke begins. The wrists, are: fret dropped. This has the double effect of dicking the blade out of the water and turning it into the "fen- ther" so as to reduce air resistance on the swing forward. The hands shoot away from the body, but in with no bend at the elbows, but such a way as to load it up again again not rigid. The our blade to the perpendicular; The knoos at is vertical and just covered by the this time are still hard down. The water, and the oar is pressed out movement of the hands and body warde, so that there is no ancklash bore must be very rapid, olso the knoes will come up and be struck to take up in the rigger itse

The stroke now begins with a by the hands; and also because the spring from the stretcher. The body must be abend of the slide les drive the body and slide back before it moves, so that on the wing: simultaneously. The body, having forward the weight may be firmly the longer way to go: moves fas prend down again onto the stres

gecher for the next stroke Ale tertium the slider but they together. If either precedes the quickpeas here enables the opreman other, the rowing becomes to that, to move more slowly and steadily extent second class. The blade of she approachon his full-forward the oar moves horizontary puny (Continued on Page 1)