Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-04
PRONOUNCED STAYERS
OF HIGHEST ORDER
Capt. Frank Beddington, an
English Amateur Sculler,
Praises Harvard.

The New York Heralds European edition
publishes the following from its correspond
ent:
london Monday.-Capt. Frank Bedding
ton, a we'll known English amateur sculler.
contributes to the Herald the following in
teresting impressions OF the Harvard and
Cambridge crews now in training for the
race on Saturday next:
"Putney, Monday.-The general topic in
rowing circles here today has been the won
derful trial of the Harvard crew on Situr-
day last and what the Cambridge men may
be able to accomplish tomorrow, when they
intend doing the full course at racing
speed. The Americans have immensely i'm
proved since they first started practice hare,
and it is difficult indeed to find fault with
them.
Every one here expected to see typical
American crew. but such is not the case,
for instead of a short, bukety' stroke that
we have always heard that American row.
ing men use the Harvard boys row very
long and reach well out with a good hard
finish. If it were not for their dress had 1
seen them for the first time l should not
have been able to distinguish them by their
style.
Boat Travels Well.
Their boat travels we'll between strokes
and does not dip, as the Cambridge shell
is inclined to do. This is not on account
of the boat. but difference in the finish.
The Contabs go farther back from the per-
pendicular than the visitors and must ex-
haust themselves more in doing this Re-
SIDES, they slightly stop way on their craft
Inc Harvard men appear to get their
na1os away more smartly. more In the
style OF professional, whose one end and
ann Is to keep his boat running all the
time. 1t must be more difficult to recover
when going 80 far beyond the perpendtcu-
lar.
'Stanbury, an Australian professions,
used to say: 1T is not the rowing that heat.
man, but the recovery and the Ameri
cans have proved themselves to be stavers
OF the highest order, for after their trial NJ
saturday last they were by no means
banked.
Tally Thirty-Seven Strokes.
several times in practice the Harvard
members rowed ten strokes in fifteen sec
onds, or forty per minute, but the taI,v at
the END or sixsy seconds has been thirty
seven strokes. That is all that Is wanted
II Is nonsense. therefore, to assert as so
many English critics have tried to do that
they cannot row forty. Rowing forty.' as
IL Is called. Is very different thing At Hem
ley, where the oars move in the direction of
the stream, and rowing at Putney with a
fast running tide. where the oars are heine
forced against the direction in which the
water is moving
I'm the opinion of some of the very hest
experts. amateur and professional, so far
there is nothing to choose between the two
crews. L think 1t of great advantage to the
crews to have with them always a doctor.
and the same doctor. That alone is a con-
siderable point in favor of the Americans.
This afternoon only light work was done
by the rival crews, Cambridge going out
first and launching their new boat. which
appeared to carry them excellently. This
craft has been completed in five days, a
record In bodybuilding. although it is
rather late In the day to try a new ship.
They padded up to Hammersmith. and on
the way back had racing pace spin of two
minutes. and were rowing a spare man ar
No. 4. as Donaldson is suffering from a
| mosquito bite.
The Americans Out.
| THE Americans. who went out for an au-
tomobile ride on Sunday. got afloat lust as
their opponents were taking their boat out
OF the water. and appeared to move their
ship with great power. They only did light
work. the principal portion of which was a
! half-minute burst from the stakeboat at rho
rate of thirty-eight strokes to the minute.
They did not. however, get off we'll and
| the boat rolled considerably They met with
a great ovation from the crowds on the
banks.
Great Interest in the Race.
II cannot recollect anything approaching
| the public interest that is being take in the
| contest in any other boat race of any &C.
scription. Every one is talking about IL.
| People who never have seen a boat race of
any sort ask. Who's going to VIM Crowds
| line the bank daily. One thing is certain,
| it is going to be a great race.
~ don't agree with the Harvard men for
| having had the blades of their oars shaved
narrower, and cannot imagine what has