ENGLAND'S ROWING TEAM FOR EMPIRE GAMES; 40-MILE TRAINING ROWS
News of the English oarsmen who will be competing at the Empire Games at Lake Karapiro was received this week by Clarrie Healey, captain of the Union Boat Club, Wanganui, and coach of New Zealand crews at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932. A letter from Jack Beresford, famous English and Olympic champion, who will be in charge of the English party, says that the English crew is a tremendously powerful one, but will be handicapped by shortage of time for training. They are rowing each week end and covering some 40 miles in practice rows. This should be an eye opener to some New Zealand oarsmen, who are content to cover some four or five miles a row and consider this quite sufficient to enable them to reach winning form. The English crew is a composite one, with an Oxford Blue for Captain, four Cambridge Blues and three Thames rowing club men. The average weight of the crew is 13 stone 61bs. It is interesting to note that the cox is a one-legged Thames rowing Club man who steered the British eight in the recent Olympic Games.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 5 November 1949, Page 8
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