OTHER ROWING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 12

OTHER ROWING.

(By "Mercury." One effect of Leandcr's , win is that tho question of style, which would have been practically settled had tho Australians ngain defeated tho Englishmen and their methods, will bo revived again with fresh vigour. In this respect the "Sun" publishes sonio comments on tho Henley victory from rowing authorities in New South Wales. Among thoso interviewed was Mr.'E. A. Pearson, who stresses tho Australian point of view very well. Ho says:— "I feol greatly pleased over tho success of our crew. It appears from the reports of tho different heats in -.which they competed that tho stylo adopted in Victoria, and in recent years practised by New South Wales, is able to show tho English rowers the scientific slow Elide recovery. In; the final heat between , Sydney and Lcander Club 3 tho former rowed with shorter oars, shorter swing, and slower rate of stroke than Leander, which' should go to prove that our slide recovery was much slower than theirs; hence, the faster run of the. boat between tho strokes. From photographs seen it would appear as if the swing of the English crews generally is an exaggerated style, similar to that adopted by tho South Australian crews seen in inter-Staterncos, and which have not yet been successful in securing the much-coveted win. A crew Rowing our present stylo with pronounced s'leady slido recovery will to most people appear to be rowing short, but it will be found that the. onra.in the reach-out have abEorbed all the space available between the poppets. Tho. extra length'of oar rowed by the English crews would tend to make the men swing too far out with tho fame snace between the poppets, and no crew with a reach to the extent obfiiinp(l by their crews ran expect to come to the same perfection in log drive or lift as crews cached to srving as the crack crews of Victoria hnve done, and from which our present stylo has emanated."