The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-09

He was then sturdy sculler, but could
not be called a finished sculler. He
was unsteady in his boat as could be
seen when he reached for the stroke.
The SOULS would waver, as he failed to
ride. the shell properly. He was a
strong one, though, and when he put
the oars into the water he could drive
the boat hard. Maybe one of the rea-
sons of his unsteadiness was that he
had difficulty in getting boat to fit
him. He is a big fellow, standing six
feet five inches, 1 think, and at first
rowed in borrowed shell. Being of
such high gear, the boat did not fit
him. When he got his own shell, he
wasn't sufficiently accustomed to it. It's
easy to see how he could beat Black
stare. The latter is a chunky little
fellow, who rows quick stroke, and
that is the reason he pumped himself
when rowing against Howell. Black
static would take the lead with such
rowing, but when Howell got 60
ing, his powerful stroke outlasted that
of Blackstaffe.
Howell took the right means for
making himself a sculler the same as
the other English amateurs do. He
got professional Sculler to teach him
how to row, and no doubt he has i'm
proved under the direction of a sculler
who knows the right way to handle the
sculls."
Edward H. Ten Eyck, winner Of the
diamond SOULS at the Henley royal re-
gatta in 1897 and the only man who
has defeated Howell in a sculling race,
speaking of the winner, last night, said
that Howell is fast man, and, in COM
parison, he would rate him about Joe
Whitehead's equal in mile and half
race Howell has peculiar style in
sculling. He appears to do his work
awkward.y, and to watch him seulling,
one would not realize that his shell was
going fast.
The young man is of powerful build,
being more than feet in height and
weighing about $50 pounds. Ten Eyck
encountered Howell in his second heat
IN 1897 and defeated him by three
quarters of a length in the mile and
516. The time for the heat was 1888. In
his final heat, Ten Eyck met Black
static, whom he defeated by nearly
three lengths in S.35, the record for the
course. Both heats were rowed under
the same conditions and with the times
as basis, Ten Eyck said he would rate
the Cambridge college man and the
English champion on an equal.
Blackstaffe, Ten Eyck believes, IS not
fast man and figures that he cannot
do better than 955 for a mile and a
half with turn. Howell, in 1897 made
his first try for the SOULS, and Ten
Eyck believes he has improved since
then, while Blackstaffe, who had been
rowing some time, had little TO gain
by experience. Howell, in his victory
last year, established a new recor1 for
the course, setting the figures at S29.
This in itself is nothing significant,
as Ten Eyck says there are good and
bad days on the course. The wind can
play an important factor in time, and
as an instance, he cited a trial which
lie rowed one morning, and ov-r which
tie English papers made much talk
He rowed the distance on that occas-
ion in less than eight minutes. Before
he started for England he rowed the
same distance on Lake Quinsigsmond
IN $40. Howell's victory is a pleasing
one to Ten Eyck, principally from the
fact that he is an American. Black
static Ten Eyck met in a social way
after the regatta, and feels for him
in his succession of defeats at the Hen
ley. He has tried so persistently and
has always reached the final. that it
is some wonder that he has not be-
come discouraged by this time and de-
clined to enter the regatta