New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-16
FTTERs TO THE EDITOR.
ROWING AT COLUMBIA.
.--,. rovtEs AND MEiKLEriAM s1EoKEs-WHAT
sroRRow DID AT HARVARD

- ,yovrEs AND NEIKLEKAM sTEo<Es-WhAr
sroRRow DID AT HARVARD
-. EDITOR Of The Tribune.
a.. ,otce a number OF curious Measurements
=. ma various papers about Columbia rowing ma
d n,ch rohody seems 10 correct. IN REGARD 10
u, Corrles stroke" 1.-The Meikleham stroke OK
-. ,.n,-s ago" etc. The facts CT the matter
80. Rowing matters at Columbia were icr
" r,,ner of years in the hands Oh 1"spe. a.
cn,n,ln stroke and captain or the Coiunioia ~
rho visited England in 1876 or thereaoou'S' Jus"
:, Covvles was In the class of S. ana was cap
~ " ,-o,,a Of the So and SO Varsity crews
crews were coached by Goodwin. ASSISTED
- r,,sco r c. Cornell. George Rives and others
roved what was called then tine hheHsn
s,roko This stroke was characterEed D! io.e
,ocb forward a sharp. quick eaten Win 'iie '"0A'
- rigid and not bent until the body mao swung
hack past the perpendicular when INC a' ,H w. VIZ.
- IN high on tho chest. ard the shoc WIS
,,'a hool A great EFFORT was made not 10 hang
- 49, e,,sb ON the recovery the arms were hrst
.o. awav from the body as quickly "a poss'pie'
,ben fully extended the body was swung Ior"&To
,ovlv and the slide held until the oody reacheo
,bA perpendicular. when 1t was SLOWLY prousn
<..ra~a ,bo arms all the time being held rigid;
~. .o-, re,nr finished by the long reach for
-, - 49,, ho5v followed by the sharp catch 10
begin the second stroke
CO ,or ss the writer could Sec on the day OF the
c,lur,hia class races. this Is exactly the stroke
Cov,es Is irving to teach the present Varsity ana
,,osbn,an crews The 1852 Varsity was I'M
,or.unate. first by losing It's coXswain by GROWING
=. Nor,rordon; and. second. by not getting any
60 NTH Harvard through a dispute, and the
- :, bancroft the Harvard coach 70 let
80 --ov- row The referee. Clifs Watson. OF Har-
.o-d Guarded Columbia the race. ordering the
Letter n ro& over the course.
7rre "a crew rowed. but was badly beaten oy
,,ar,~,,d Walter 3. Peet began his rowing career
,-,gr, AVID ofro lxe ~ IA n
man crew which easily defeated the Harvard
,-s,r,en on July :. 1852. IN two-nlile race on the
IIo,ler, P'ver In 1854 he captain OF the Var
s,,v This was new crew Of light men, and was
NOT successful He also had much TO DO with me
tsr successful against Harvard. and probably the
hest eight-oared crew that ever represented CO.
'" sDce thee Feet has had more to DO with Co
Iur,bia crews .han any otnef COacIl' anu go
rers Columbia has had s largely due 70 him ms
latest success was the 80 VARSITY which woT tnn
duties have prevented his taking any part IN inc
Wj,lianl A. Mciieham was captain Of the 80
an accident IN the race against Harvard; he'd az
Sreit( craNs captain Of the last two. and was
one 81 he best oarsInen Coiumua ever a,arc,
in athletics and to this may be attributed much
Of tie success Of his Sc crew. -, o,
NUN The same stroke II 1850 the famous st9rrow
was captain Of the Harvard crew ne my troLe
sometimes called the Storrow-l aukner SIIoT ~;
THIS crew was coached. as 20 WaternlaiS sup, ~
Fau!kner thu weknoNn proiessonati anG W Fsst
nigh ravclut on.zcd rowing. !; was extremely
ard easily won from both Vale and Coiumn3l,h.
peet who was ~ New-London with the Coiumola
crow studied Storrow's crew carefully ana az d
result evolved during the winter The modlneu 10
lumha stroke rowed by the 80 Io!uinoa FroebS
ma hy ali successful Columbia Vars ~ ana RESP -
man crews Stree. The success Of Harvard IN -
ana OF Columbia in 1855 forced Boo, Coo 2Sod 10
study the natter and in 1887 he evolved me Hqul
fed Yale stroke. rowed by al Yale crews from '''"'
.fr,a - ra period.
We hear rnucn in the papers now ABOUT ne lem
Cook stroke that was learned at Henley aSt ETai,
~. : venture 70 predict that the stroke the 12e
crew will row at Poughkeepsie VIII be more IKE
,La -owod ~ the best Yale crews or the l;'St Tn
Years ina? Ike that being taught Harvard by Mt,
1,b-nan This Is only a surUse Or course. ~ ~ -
r., jdca that az the end of four miles 4ale VIII oe
Co1,1d in nor usual place at the head or the pro
cSssion' with Cornell second and Harvard N her
usual position. -. ..12oh"
Cook goes ~. forever. He krows more ahout row
irr and tolls laas the outside public thah any
other man this side of the water. unless II Is
Pow Bancroft. dear 10 the heart OF me
ara graduate and SO little loved by President
yrIiot Notwithstanding the fact that he mas peen
Mayor OF Cambridge and Is an overseer OF Harvard
1@e,veraiiv COLUMBIA, 81.
York. June :, ls3I