NOVEL ROWING STYLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOVEL ROWING STYLE.

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it is this —instead of tfss crew paJJag together tcey piiii in pairs in sziseession; stroke and SST6S, then Etc and four, and finally two and The teats of six and three are vacant. Bv this "system the bosc is never untheat'dming power, there always being me pair of cars in' ths ■. water.*"; Td= take: aa analogy,-it is the difference a single cylinder and a mnlli -cy Under engine, . Opinions differ widely among' rowing sen as to the of the netr method of rowing. ifr. " Bsl2y * East, the •sreO-kroTrn scalier and King's Bargeman, while speaking- vrith reserve, _ expressed sctne donfet whether the new idea ■ss-onld work cat successfully in practice. " J Troojd prefer to s©ff it for myself before expressing any mom definite opinion/" he said. *' Such a thing has never been tried before 50 far as I kno~."

Mr. J. Be res ford, senior, the veteran oarsman ana father of Jack Beresford, who won the Diamond Scralls in 1920, was mere decided in his opinion. " I do n't think there is anything in it," he said. "It b all tomfoolery—niter ret." Mr. H. R. Simmonds, another wellknown oarsman, who is hon. secretary of the Thames Bowing Club/ takes qaiie a different xievr. "It teems an interesting experiment," he said. "We have not discussed it with the London Bowing Club, and I don't really know what principle they are out to establish. I saw the new method being tried and I noticed that the boat went surprisingly smoothly throach the water and was certainly travelling very weiL

" I think there must bo something in it, but it is not a thing which inexperienced oarsmen arc likely to make a success of, because it seems to destroy the body rhythm to which oarsmen have got used. Neither, of course, is it so attractive to look at. V I don't think we shall try it at the Thames Rowing Club. Ido not Rather that it, is being seriously advocated as a new style of rowing. If it were adopted we shtrald have to have a different iiort of boat at present they are trying it with six men in an eight-oar boat, leaving seats 3 and 6 vacant so as to provide the necessary room. That opens up interesting possibilities. You might have an eight-boat made larger, or\even a tenman boat. Thfcre is no limit to that sort of thing. There is quite a lot in the mechanics of rowing which has to be thought out," « The captain of the London Rowing Club said the new ityla showed every indication of being a success, and in that caso would certainly be pub forward as a new method of propelling a boat.*