El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-23
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nv lOEkh- June 20 n EV-AN7E
M oarsman touches the heights Of
i unseIfishness." some one once re-
marked. He is cussed for six mouths
by the coach, he works like a trojan
during every spare moment during
those six months. is cheered BY the
crowd for 20 minutes and then is eor-
gotten forever"
College football gladiators, track AID
field athletes and diamond stars nave
their names written large in the col
Iegiate hall Of fame Their pictures
peer out from every. newspaper In The
country and their prOwess 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 bit for what
has done.
you never heard Of a chap named c.
c Lund of Boston Yet Lund has
brought as much fame TO Harvard on
the water as Charles Brickley ever
brought through his football skill
strOked Nine Victories.
Lund is the chap who has stroked
Harvard to nine Aquatic victories IN
a row. He smashed all presidents last
year when he stroked the second Har-
ward crew to three victories IN the big
Henley regatta in England II was
the L1rSL time LlaL All american NAEH
ever captured the historic eight cared
racs vet Lund's achievement hardly
was mentioned in any Of the papers
Lund was at stroke oar when the sec
ond Harvard team beat the AnnapoIls
varsity and Yale juniors in the two
1914 regattas- Harvard, with Lund ct
stroke oar, won two races in the 1913
American Henley at Philadelphia It
was Lund who stroked Harvard TO vic
tory this year over the navy crew al
Annapolis and Cornell crew at Ithaca,
y. Y, on May %.
What the Stroke Does.
For the benefit Of the uninitiated Il
may be explained that the stroke oars
men on a crew is the chap who sets the
pace. He is the man who must not 12l-
ter. the man with the iron nerve and
the iron viii. 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 quarter
back: like a baseball team with an
armless pitcher
Columbia Had Stroke.
Columbia won the big POughkeepsie
varsity race last June because Us
stroke oarsman-a little Irishman with
mighty arms and a stout heart-rose
up like a Titan in that final heart
breaking half mile by his marvellous
generalship and his wonderful stroKlng
finish line the slight lead that it had
over Pennsylvania
It was the grit and the never-say-Cie
spirit OF that little Irishman that stt-
fened the backbones Of his weary tel-
lows; that filled them with a new fight
ing spirit. The little Irishman pushed
that Columbia stroke well above the
40 notch during the last half mile, and
although Wearied and tired almost to
the point of exhaustion, his fellows
followed him-and Columbia won.
It's a safe bet that today not 100
persons Of the $4,000 who saw Columbia
win that race can recall that little
Irishmans name. And We daresay that
there aren't so Of COlumbia's immense
chap who strOked a Columbia crew 10
victory in 1914 for the first time in
somethink like 80 years The name OF
that little Irishman was Mccarthy.
Two chaps nearly gave their lives for
the sake of Yale in 1913. They roWed
in the boat that was beaten so decis-
lively by Harvard. Those chaps stuck
crossed and then they collapsed in
their seats. Their magnificent young
strength had been broken by that ter
rifle four mile race What they SUI
fered during the last two miles nearly
reached the crest OF human agony. Yet
they suffered and stuck to their posts
with a stoicism that even the Spar
tans couldn't excel
And for this they got BRIEF sympa-
thetic mention in the papers the next
day-and since have been forgotten
There are thousands Of people IN the
United States today who can tell you
the name of every man who played on
the 1914 Yale and Harvard football
teams but We daresay that there