Word: oars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto, has decided to send its four-oar crew, which now holds the amateur championship of America, to the next regatta at Henly, England. Everything seems to point to a victory for the crew when across the water...
...oar of the Oxford crew weighs only 150 pounds...
...until the Easter vacation; but will, of course, strictly observe the rules of training in the interim. The hydrometers at the Gymnasium are being put in order, and some little time will be spent on them every day, in order to accustom the men to the handling of an oar and the swing of the body. The whole system of training will be as nearly like that followed last year as possible, and if the men work as faithfully as the '84 crew did, there is no reason to suppose that the crew will be inferior...
...only man who rowed in both of last year's races ; Yocom rowed in the Yale race. As may be seen above, one half of the candidates are sophomores, and have consequently but one year's experience. Two of the others, Colony and Pennypacker, have never pulled an oar before. Mr. C. P. Curtis, L. S. is at present acting as coach. During the last few days the crew has been told to give special attention to the recover: to slow up gradually when coming forward. This is a very difficult thing to do, for it demands absolutely perfect control...
...Transcript contained a very vigorous, forcible and almost violent communication, protesting against the abolishment of foot ball. The writer says at the close: "Probably the next step will be to have the inter-collegiate boat-races conducted with steam launches, because "brutal" strength is needed at the oar. Is it a pleasant prospect that not game should be allowed except those that girls can have part in, and will it improve our race. "The puny weaklings who would be exterminated in a natural state of society will taken the a affirmative...