“SHEER SNOBBERY”
HENLEY REGATTA RULES QUESTION OF ALTERATION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 8. Henley’s rule barring manual workers will be rediscussed by the Regatta Committee. Sir A. A. Withers, who is a member of the Leander Club, to-day described the rule as sheer snobbery. Mr Frederick Pitman, a famous oarsman and_ chairman of the Henley regatta, said; “ Snobbery does not enter into the matter. It is purely a question of guarding against professionalism.” A rowing authority says the rule was framed in 1882 and designed to “ prevent manual workers from competing with people who on account of sedentary lives would be at a disadvantage.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 17
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