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The reason--the only reason--suggested for the change is that four miles is too exhausting. Before going any further it must be remembered that it is yet to be shown that any man whose vital organs were sound and who had properly and carefully trained, has ever been injured...
Will three miles be much less exhausting than four miles? That a crew will be very much more used up at the end of a three mile race than it will be at the end of the third mile in a four mile race, is obvious. If the race is...
To sum up the question of exhaustion, no evil results have appeared nor are likely to appear, providing there is suitable preparation, from our four mile races. But even if it is desirable to reduce the exhaustion, three miles is, if at all, very little better than four in this...
So far, I have considered the only argument in favor of shortening the race, but there are many reasons why four miles is the more desirable distance. I have learned from those who were active in rowing when the change from sixes to eights was made (in 1876) that four...
The 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...