South Bend news-times., 1915-06-24
FAME Of COLLEGE
OhRSMAN IS BUT
PASSING REWARD
M0nthS of Labor and Spartan
Like Efforts Bring But Few
Minutes of Glory for the
Men Who Man Shells.

NEW YORK. June Z+.-"A college
Carsman touches the heights of un-
selhshnoss. someone once remarked.
"He is cussed for six months by the
coach. ne works like a Trojan during
every spare moment during those six
months. is cheered by the crowd for
20 minutes and then is forgotten for
ever"
How true is the above
College football gladiators, track
and field athletes and diamond stars
have their names written large in the
collegiate hall OF fame. Their names
are la sded in song and story. Their
pictures peer out from every news
paper i'm the country and their PROV
ess is heralded from one end OF the
land To the other
But who ever heard of a college
oarsman being dragged into the focus
Of the sporting spotlight so that the
public could liOnize him a bit for what
he has done
The chances are about 100 to one
that you never heard OF "a chap named
G. G. Lund of Boston. other than to
hear him mentioned as member Of
the Harvard varsity crew. Yet Lund
has brought as much fame 10 Har-
ward on the water as Charles Brick
ley ever brought through his football
skill
Lund Great Stroke.
Lund is the chap who has stroked
Harvard 10 nine acquatic victories in
a row. He smashed all precedents
last year when he stroked the second
Harvard crew TO three victories in the
big Henley regatta in England. 1t
was the first time that an American
cr r
cared race. yet Lund's achievement
hardly was mentioned in any OF the
papers.
Lund vas at stroke oar when the
second Harvard team beat the Annap
oils varsity and Yale juniors in the
two 1914 regattas. Harvard. with
Lund at stroke oar. won two races in
the 1914 American Henley at Phila-
delphia. 1t was Lund who stroked
Harvard to victory this year over the
navy crew at Annapolis and Cornell
crew at Ithaca, y. Y. on May %.
Foe the benefit of the uninitiated it
il may be explained that the stroke
oarsmen on a crew is the chap who
sets the pace He is the man who
must not falter; the man with the
iron nerve and the iron will. He Is
the man who must respond first to
every call for higher stroking and ii
is upon his perfection Of stroke that
victory depends. A crew without a
good stroke oarsman is like a football
team with a blind quarterback; like
a baseball team with an armless
pitcher.
Irishman Won Race.
Columbia won the big Poughkeepsie
varsity race last June because it's
stroke oarsman- a little Irishman
with mighty arms and stout heart
rose up like a Titan in that final
heart breaking half mile and by his
marvellous generalship and his Won
derful stroking enabled Columbia 10
maintain to the finish line the slight
lead that ii had over Pennsylvania.
1t was the grit and the never-say-
die spirit of that little Irishman that
stiffened the backbones of his weary
fellows: that filled them with a new
hghting spirit The little Irishman
pushed that Columbia stroke well
above the 40 notch during the last
half mile. and although wearied and
tired almost 10 the point of exhaustion.
his fellows followed him-and Colum-
bia won.
It's a safe bet that today there
aren't 100 persons OF the $4,000 who
saw Columbia win that race that can
recall that little Irishman's name. And
we daresay that there aren't so Of
Columbia's immense alumni that can
recall the name of the chap who
stroked a Columbia crew to victory