Word: sculler
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Attempts have been made in the last few years to boom single sculling at Harvard. A cup has been offered to the best sculler in college and the race is more sharply contested every year. It seems strange that so manly and health-giving an exercise as single sculling, encouraged by all the boating men of the college, has never been encouraged by the gymnasium authorities. Among the apparatus at the gymnasium there is nothing that resembles single sculling in the least. There are certainly more scullers than bicyclists in college, yet we have two or three practice wheels...
...jerkiness is especially noticeable at the beginning of the recover. He tries to come forward quickly and rather overdoes It, getting a sort of a jump. He works too hard. Bow does not row his elbows into his sides well. He has many of the characteristics of a single sculler which are not exactly in accord with the traditions of an eight-oar, such as keeping his back bent and other details. Bartol, the first substitute, pulls a ragged and uneven stroke. He does not sit up well to his work, but sags and lets his stomach cave...
...order of the Ex. Com.H. U. B. C.- A championship cup has been offered by two gentlemen of the University to be competed for annually by single scullers. The race will be held under the auspices of the Boat Club, in the first week of June, probably. As an encouragement to beginners, a second cup is offered by the H. U. B. C., as a prize for the best single sculler, who has never rowed before this spring...
...committee of the amateur rowing association have defined a junior sculler as follows: "A junior sculler is one who has never pulled in a senior race, nor won a junior scull race; a junior oarsman is one who has never pulled an oar in a senior race, nor been a winning oarsman in a junior race; competitions with members of his own club will not affect the standing as a junior of any oarsman or sculler; the qualification of a junior oarsman or sculler shall relate to each time of his coming to the starting post, whether in a trial...
...gentleman and a sculler, and the noblest row-man of them all," is the eulogy recently passed upon a famous college oarsman...