The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1900, Page 10

10 THE SUNDAY CALL. s of the body, d ) the highest p football; ar men shooting other sports, only re and take as high £ among the attention HT advent of Professor Benfamin Ide Wheeler into the presidency of the University of California precip- principles of indpoint that the ast upon isah cleanly exercise club and crew, and a i feARy Aot e taken up. from which a half the time sprawling In the ©f money was r : ment, to which fund fe for one to purst of broken necks, moreover of m: 1d clubbed thumbs It is a sport in whi =kill possible to may be employed t needs unite in nished in steady. through . synchronous impulses? esident Wheeler does not oppose the vere no contests with d Stanford and that ¢ r been taken up boating could be made 'ts and entertainment large colleges of The Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Penn: vania regattas are great affairs and com- ita 1 interest in collegiate and is felt by the contesting crews. intercollegiate boating which nas Is no reason why, with the great bay not been manifest since 1 Presi- its many estuaries within ready reach of the pelled its or; were then full of the was ‘a prin arms however, hed What fs practice purposas. Berkeley, however, efforts to expire, sidgrably, and lac} position, was at o shells b pout four ye was built, ere bov ractice tion to In these races sport Is exemplified In its highest phase, and the struggle is watched with as keen delight by the spectators as being the gr °d to purchase pal contributor. never the zeal of the could be staked off ample aia though £ the stimulus of op- > time on the verge of until now, . the club owns two it seemed would keep the university crew off the track. They suc- ceeded, however, in bor- Ihera ToWing the lapped barge .a ©f the Pioneer Club, and they entered the contest dent Wheeler is an old Yale oarsman and both colieges, regattas should not be held with the Dolphin and a v upon the technique every summer, and they would certainly the Ariel crews. The & of the be features of the season.” barge by 1 of its £ 'hile at Cornell he as far a The crew and club to which President timbers lapped spirit of the r s was com- Wheeler referred is the boating club of upon the edge was mensurate with his office of professor. and the Berkeley Unive which has come much . heavier than published views upon phases of the to feel a new life sin lent Wheel- the smooth, light skiffs sport and past contests aided not a little er arrived. It was organized in 1 which the Berkeleys iding th. ms in the re- Jewett Morrc wh had been accustomed to row, and it made less Pro- ollegiate boatrace which took place speed through the water. o pasti at Chicago during the World's Fair. Still Ber SRR Pl op e B design was to race ing both to go to Chicago and t the California upon a mil crew on the lake. The nford lads course—three-fourths of having a o ription was srable sum equip- ator Stanford The St got 1y leaders sub- mile ¢ then a as In base- to Astori e ing before the organization got on its Astor] h all the exer- & . in the : the lother iwg fect. Since that time Stanford has been 0 the = ress gl quies ent upon the subject of b 2 BRGE S5 Whens el 7 {hough the university is but of that city on / gment m a branch of the ba Bigh oo DL [t was the hopeiaf upon Berkeley men that they for alil could find some college not allow her CIEW there to take up D ool their gauntlet and give them a cha intercolleg They did e to install racing. succeed in N » l‘xilurv. This i after the elab- Wing, Sud IS SEecousy LGl its ull\!cnh of sculls was destroyed by u" Another boat- dually in 2 d to try crew against a composed Alameda Club, new a great dearth and lack In the outHgger - skiffs, bottanied. End members bad ac- reaim of coll ithletics § talr TabIRE “ctar h they are not companied them from “Berkeley has already produced a crew ghells. When the ations during the Oakland to Astoria. As 1 regular organization able to make past summer became strong that Pro- they were out of the sts,” 1 the president recentiy, fessor Wheeler would be called to the ¢lass of these men, the “and the difficulty Is to get an Opposing presidency of the university new life was Yictory of the latter— crew to race. Of course, our men look {mmediately Infused into the boating Deating the collegiates to a.co team, and the source from club. The crew got together, went into DY over five minutes which t naturally expect a challenge training and resolved that this branch decided —nothing, and rd. This is as it should he. of the college sports should be raised into the Berkeley boys were hould be kept up by the sufficient prominence at least to draw ith the help of each other. the attention of Professor Wheeler. the title of vunlnrm.m_\- addressed the Stanford studets The boats were only four and the oars- Plons of the Pacific 1 appealed to them to form a men compr Hopper, bow and club, select thelr crew, train captain; P Waggershauser, forwar little forays them and challenge Berkeley. I am sure R ser, after waist; Clinton rit into the as popular and Frank Wilder, cock- v, which was inten- a place among was to sified by the Installa-’ as it hoids row at the races of the Pacific Athletic tion of Professor the East. Agsociation, which came off at El Campo Wheeler, until now the in June. This association, however. pass- club is moving in the ed a rule to allow no smooth-bottomed matter of equipping and admiration of boats on the course, a regulation which itself with an eight crew instead of a four, whereupon ft will be *“full regular” and, with due training. ready to make con- tests anywhere. Two full eight si rigger shells will be bought at a « $600 each, k used to reir other ident. The in ad¢ oportionat er than more t also the quality of be immer of the ¢ g thereby an superi the boats now ch. though smailer craft used holding but balf the number of men. require nevertheless, fifteen strokes of the oars to reverse their course. The stion of a the probabil will be a | has this is practic ident Wheeler ca he will doub advice and v I aled to a the « pon up ate row The boathouse of the club is at C . East Oakland, and on th hat has been pronounced as beauti mile course as anywhere ex nt Wheeler, however, objects to a four-mile course as a mile too long and an unnecessary strain on the oarsmen as I can learn,” remarked the “all four-mile races In this have been settled at the three- 1t and the last mile is a mere ng the vitals of the men. In of the health of the men— y voung men of 19 to 22, to whom a vital organ last exhausting mile may mean a ent injury—I urge the three-mile standard. A crew that can win in three can win in four; the mile is a libation of blood poured in ostentation to false god of the English analogy With this strong expression of opinion on the part of the president the four-mile fdea will doubtiess be abandoned and the course cut down to three miles. The stroke which will be adopted will be the Cornell stroke, a movement which is pronounced in Americanism and is “So far president, country mile pe strain of the heart or other n this las in no sense an adaptation from the much discuss ngli stroke. This has been evolved at Cornell, under the eyes of Pro- fessor Wheeler, and doubtless with his ald. This is a stroke of from thirty-three to thirty-four to the min a standard which has not been quickened by Cor! except at the regatta at Henley, w it was touched up to forty-two to forty-four and resulted in the Englishmen beating them. The slide which goes with slower stroke is nineteen to twer inches, while the faster movement was executed at great expense of body swing and consequent power of the oar's dr in the water. With this longer and mor deliberate stroke the rhythm of motion of the bodies of the rowers is beautifu uld result A game of football 2 1 inclosure to except upen which none need be admitted efore, have nerous sums e clubs and last Inter. ling. it receipts. its could be patr ats would be al- lowed to pa nto it during or pre- paratory to ing. Rows of seats could then be erected along the rallroad side of the lagoon whi 1 be sold at In t right t pay and hence siderable cost of and equip- the sport to tr help defr: providi ment which make The club as now officers P. W. Wagg J. A. Allen, vice pres reta and James K Of these gentlemen hauser is of the crew. club has determir ganization there will change in the per: he club will sk crease in ceed to practic they hold ves pos- select a crew and m t JOHN E he women In ch money as $0 per &)hat F 2. woolsey m. .. o/ the Unwersity of Califorma, FIC FOOTBALL, so is rapidly becoming the a(ild(‘l e rowing callea, faworite sport of 1 cotlegrate and 1c ¥y, of popular only among a &.der o« -day, wh is few of our lleges. 1 ast experience with that of to- demonstrated without a do football should be in- dulged in only by those who are so trained and physically adapted. Rou 'ing is open to all—the weak- est and The invalid wat !l the strongest. can here find a sp ed to his z ysical train adapted for the iwo 1is pariial ’\‘ along the same lines. For football the strength to endure physical exertion of the extreme type and most vio- lent form, both on the offensive and defensive, is demanded. This vio- lent exertion is not gradually at- tained, but is a sudden burst of energy either on the offensive or de- fensive. If on the offensive the rt readily adapt- want. ing Jhinks of Boaing as Compared &ith Fooiball. strength is taxed to its limit, while on the defensive that limit is too often passed and we have a phy- sically overposvered and overtaxed condition. Here it is that the undeveloped muscles are overcome and the evil results of such rapidly follow. The training for rowing is supon a more uniform basis. The mus- cles are here gradually developed to attaina rhythmic motionand by this means are brought to a more nearly perfect condition. The defeiisive powers are not called into play and the forced defense of football, which too often breaks bones, severs the attachments of ligaments, efc., is an unknown quantity. The physical injuries received at rowing are as mothing as com- parcd wwith football. The dusty or perhaps muddy gridiron upon which twenty or more men almost continually form a wriggling mass is not conducive to the best respiratory conditions, while the course over which a race is rowed is a tonic of itself. F.R. WOOLSEY, M. D. President heeler Considers Rowing the Jdeal Unmers:ty J'port and Finest J ype of Physical Co-operation. OWING is good sport. In the first place it keeps the men on the water generally, in healthful surroundings. It sub- jects them to definite discipline, whether that of the coach, or of the captcin who sits in the boat. Ii re- quires the finest type of physical co-operation. This co-operation goes even beyond that required in football. A good crew is not a body of oarsmen working together, but is a perfect machine, in which every part fits into its place nowse- lessly and without jar. A good coach will ot spend much time in training individual oarsmen afier the first few weeks of training have pass He will spend his time in watching the action and movement of the boat as a whole, and if any- thing goes wrong with that, will try to find out where the difficulty is. Risk of strain or injury under proper iratmng s re the tasks exacted are regi ing apportioned eve 4 Yy according to time and days. student is not obliged to meglect his university work in order to participate in 0 The competitive. events generally appointed for sc outside the college ter I ihese reasons combine to make rowing one of the best, if not the very best, university sport. : BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER. time 8.