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Sliding Seats. Number  9 50 Sliding Seats. Number 10 52 Sliding Seats. Number 11 54 Snap-shots—Crew in Motion. Numbers 1 and 2 56 Snap-shots—Crew in Motion. Numbers 3 and 4 58 Snap-shots—Crew in Motion. Numbers 5 and 6 61 Snap-shots—Crew in Motion. Numbers 7 and 8 64 Mr. C. W. Kent 78 Mr. H. G. Gold 81 Henley Regatta, 1897 130 Henley Regatta: A Heat for the Diamonds 157 A Bump in the Eights 194 Lent Races In The Plough Reach. 200 A Start in the Eights 202 The Goldie Boat-house 211 A Harvard Eight on the River Hudson, at Poughkeepsie 272 Coaching on the River Hudson 284 Rowing Types. Number 1 289 Rowing Types. Number 2 298 Rowing Types. Number 3 301 Rowing Types. Number 4 303 Rowing Types. Number 5 305

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ROWING.

CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.

My object in the following pages will be not merely to give such hints to the novice as may enable him, so far as book-learning can effect the purpose, to master the rudiments of oarsmanship, but also to commend to him the sport of rowing from the point of view of those enthusiasts who regard it as a noble open-air exercise, fruitful in lessons of strength, courage, discipline, and endurance, and as an art which requires on the part of its votaries a sense of rhythm, a perfect balance and symmetry of bodily effort, and the graceful control and repose which lend an appearance of ease to the application of the highest muscular energy. Much has to be suffered and

many difficulties have to be overcome before the raw tiro, whose fantastic contortions in a tub-pair excite the derision of the spectators, can approach to the power, effectiveness and grace of a Crum or a Gold; but, given a healthy frame and sound organs inured to fatigue by the sports of English boyhood, given also an alert intelligence, there is no reason in the nature of things why oarsmanship should not eventually become both an exercise and a pleasure. And when I speak of oarsmanship, I mean the combined form of it in pairs, in fours, and in eight-oared racing boats.

Of sculling I do not presume to speak, but those who are curious on this point may be referred to the remarks of Mr. Guy Nickalls in a later chapter. But of rowing I can speak, if not with authority, at any rate with experience, for during twenty-three years of my life I have not only rowed in a constant succession of boat-races, amounting now to about two hundred, but I have watched rowing wherever it was to be seen, and have, year after year, been privileged to utter words of instruction to innumerable crews on the Cam, the