Boating
The Badminton Library
SPORTS AND PASTIMES
EDITED BY
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT, K.G.
ASSISTED BY ALFRED E. T. WATSON
PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON
GENERAL VIEW OF HENLEY REGATTA ( Frontispiece )
BOATING
W. B. WOODGATE
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE REV. EDMOND WARRE, D.D. AND A CHAPTER ON ROWING AT ETON BY R. HARVEY MASON
Walter Bradford Woodgate
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PREFACE.
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
WOODCUTS IN TEXT.
MAPS
CONTENTS.
Introduction
CHAPTER II.
THE RISE OF MODERN OARSMANSHIP.
CHAPTER III.
SCIENTIFIC OARSMANSHIP.
CHAPTER IV.
COACHING.
CHAPTER V.
THE CAPTAIN.
CHAPTER VI.
THE COXSWAIN AND STEERING.
CHAPTER VII.
SLIDING SEATS.
CHAPTER VIII.
FOUR-OARS.
CHAPTER IX.
PAIR-OARS.
CHAPTER X.
SCULLING.
CHAPTER XI.
BOAT-BUILDING AND DIMENSIONS.
CHAPTER XII.
TRAINING.
CHAPTER XIII.
ROWING CLUBS.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE AMATEUR, HIS HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION.
CHAPTER XV.
ROWING AT ETON COLLEGE.
CHAPTER XVI.
WATERMEN AND PROFESSIONALS.
CHAPTER XVII.
LAWS OF BOAT-RACING (THEIR HISTORY, AND RULES OF THE ROAD).
‘THE TEMPLE OF FAME.’
WINNERS AT HENLEY REGATTA.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.
UNIVERSITY MEETINGS AT HENLEY,
UNIVERSITY OARSMEN.
O.U.B.C.: COLLEGE AND CLUB RACES.
C.U.B.C.: COLLEGE AND CLUB RACES.
PROFESSIONAL WINNERS OF REGATTAS AND CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THAMES INTERNATIONAL REGATTA.
WORLD’S REGATTA ON THE THAMES.
WINNERS OF DOGGETT’S COAT AND BADGE.
RIVERS AND COURSES.
APPENDIX.
THAMES PRESERVATION ACT, 1885.
INDEX.