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...athlete who, "by his performance, example and influence as an amateur and a man, has done the most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship."* But even those heroes might be edged out by the winner for 1939, announced last week. It was 25-year-old Joe Burk, world's singles scull champion, unbeaten in 37 consecutive contests from 1937 through 1939, twice winner of the famed Diamond Sculls at Henley Regatta, and-as the Sullivan citation said-"a fine example of young American manhood...
...four-day regatta. With polite murmurs of "well rowed!", they watched U. S. oarsmen make a clean sweep of the three major races: the Grand Challenge Cup (Harvard's varsity crew), the Thames Challenge Cup (Tabor Academy of Marion, Mass.), and the Diamond Sculls (Joe Burk of Bridgeboro...
Britons who thronged the banks of the Thames last week for England's No. 1 rowing carnival, the annual Henley Regatta, saw an amazing performance. For four days they gaped at a red-haired American sculler, Joseph William Burk, who decisively outrowed his opponents over the mile and 5/16 course day after day in the elimination heats of, the Diamond Sculls, most famed race in the world for individual scullers...
...does everything wrong," muttered experts and dubs alike. Rowing an extremely high stroke (36 to 45 a minute, compared to an average sculler's 28 to 32), Joe Burk, who weighs 195 lb. and has arms like piano legs, propels his shell with an unorthodox short jerk of his arms and a quick kick of his legs, sits up almost straight at the end of each stroke. This freak style he developed two years ago on New Jersey's Rancocas Creek, hard by his father's fruit farm, after rowing in orthodox fashion on the University...
Last week 23-year-old Joe Burk was well rewarded. In the final of the Diamond Sculls, dipping his oars 45 times a minute, he streaked through the water as if he had an outboard motor attached to his 26-lb. shell, not only won the coveted race but did it in 8 min. 2 sec.-eight seconds faster than the Henley record set in 1905. Only three Americans before him had ever won the Diamond Sculls : Edward Ten Eyck in 1897, B. Hunting Howell in 1898-99, and Walter Hoover...