ANCIENT RULE.
HENLEY ROWING BAN. Received April 9, 1.40 p.m. LONDON, April 8. Henley’s rule barring manual workers will be rediscusscd by the regatta committee. Sir John Withers, M.P., who is a member of the Leander Club, to-day described the rule as sheer snobbery. Mr Frederick Pitman, the famous oarsman, and the chairman of the Henley Regatta, said : Snobbery does not enter 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 competing with people who, on account of sedentary lives, would be at a disadvantage.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 10 April 1937, Page 2
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103ANCIENT RULE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 10 April 1937, Page 2
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