CONTENTS.

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I.Introductory[1]
II.First Lessons on Fixed Seats[14]
III.First Lessons on Sliding Seats[38]
IV.Combined Oarsmanship in Eights[55]
V.Combined Oarsmanship in Eights (continued)[72]
VI.Combined Oarsmanship in Eights (continued)[89]
VII.Of Ailments—Of Training and Diet—Of Staleness—Of Discipline—Of Coaching[109]
VIII.Of the Race-day—Of the Race—Of the Necessity of having a Butt—Of Leisure Time—Of Aquatic Axioms[128]
IX.Four-oars and Pair-oars—Swivel Rowlocks[144]
X.Sculling. By Guy Nickalls[157]
XI.Steering. By G. L. Davis[176]
XII.College Rowing at Oxford. By C. M. Pitman[194]
XIII.College Rowing at Cambridge[211]
XIV.Rowing at Eton College. By W. E. Crum[234]
XV.Australian Rowing. By E. G. Blackmore[255]
XVI.Rowing in America[270]
XVII.A Recent Controversy: Are Athletes Healthy?—Mr. Sandow's Views on the Training of Oarsmen[288]
Appendix—Henley Regatta Rules; Rules of the A.R.A.; Rules of the C.U.B.C. and O.U.B.C.[307]

LIST OF PLATES.

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[The Oxford and Cambridge Boat-race, 1894]Frontispiece.
[First Henley Regatta Programme]To face 6
[Fixed Seats. Number 1]20
[Fixed Seats. Number 2]22
[Fixed Seats. Number 3]24
[Fixed Seats. Number 4]26
[Fixed Seats. Number 5]30
[Sliding Seats. Number 1]38
[Sliding Seats. Number 2]40
[Sliding Seats. Number 3]41
[Sliding Seats. Number 4]42
[Sliding Seats. Number 5]44
[Sliding Seats. Number 6]45
[Sliding Seats. Number 7]47
[Sliding Seats. Number 8]48
[Sliding Seats. Number 9]50
[Sliding Seats. Number 10]52
[Sliding Seats. Number 11]54
[Snap-shots—Crew in Motion. Numbers 1 and 2]56
[Snap-shots—Crew in Motion. Numbers 3 and 4]58
[Snap-shots—Crew in Motion. Numbers 5 and 6]61
[Snap-shots—Crew in Motion. Numbers 7 and 8]64
[Mr. C. W. Kent]78
[Mr. H. G. Gold]81
[Henley Regatta, 1897]130
[Henley Regatta: A Heat for the Diamonds]157
[A Bump in the Eights]194
[Lent Races In The Plough Reach.]200
[A Start in the Eights]202
[The Goldie Boat-house]211
[A Harvard Eight on the River Hudson, at Poughkeepsie]272
[Coaching on the River Hudson]284
[Rowing Types. Number 1]289
[Rowing Types. Number 2]298
[Rowing Types. Number 3]301
[Rowing Types. Number 4]303
[Rowing Types. Number 5]305

ROWING.