Word: henley
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course at Henley is only a little over a mile, but the eights that row there have not the time to train for a longer race, and the races have to be rowed in heats. Oxford and Cambridge, as has been mentioned, row considerably more than four miles. If our English friends can do it, I for one think the American college rowing men ought to have the stamina, and I believe they have it. To many people, it is a source of great humiliation that the Englishmen are so much superior to us Americans in contests involving endurance. Here...
...believe that three miles is less exhausting than four. That it is less exhausting because it takes five minutes less time. It is a well known fact that while a first-class man can row himself absolutely out at the finish of a short race, as at Henley 1 3-8 miles, or the National, 1 1-2 miles, he soon recovers, and is able to take part with effectiveness in two, and in some cases three, races in the same day, and to repeat the process the day following. I have yet to see or hear...
This superiority, however, is being widely recognized in England, and has lately resulted in an attempt to close the Henley Regatta to Americans rather than raise the standards of training and watermanship. Taking into consideration the spirit of modern times toward progress and competition, this seems anything but a good plan, for with all their faults American methods are the methods that should in the end prevail...
...Harvard crew management has not yet answered the challenge from Columbia for a race on the Charles River early in June. If the Henley regatta is not held this spring the challenge will probably be accepted. In this case a race will be arranged either for the second University crew or for one or two club crews...
...annual boat races on the Thames between Harvard and Yale. It was decided that the flag marking the finish should be placed a few feet west, or toward the New London side. This will make the course practically the same as it was in 1899. Consideration of the "American Henley" plan was postponed...