Boating - Walter Bradford Woodgate

		ARTIST	PAGE
[Vignette on Title-page]		Frank Dadd
[Fleet of Egyptian Queen]		From a photograph		11
[Ancient Boat depicted on Vase]		Frank Dadd		15
[Bas-relief of ancient Greek Rowing Boat]		Frank Dadd		19
[Ancient Galley Fight, from Pompeii]		Frank Dadd		21
[Henley Course (between Races)]		From a photograph		26
[Oxford Boat in 1829]	}	From ‘Record of the University Boatrace’	{	31
[Bumping Races (old style)]	}	From ‘Record of the University Boatrace’	{	33
[A College Pair]		From a photograph		37
[Towing Guard Boats up Henley Reach]		From a photograph		39
[Pair-oar]		From a photograph		41
[Gondola]		From a photograph		43
[Bisham Court]		From a photograph		53
[Marlow]		From a photograph		66
[A Scratch Eight (‘Peal of Bells’)]		From a photograph		75
[Medmenham Abbey]		From a photograph		79
[‘Prose’]		Frank Dadd		83
[Bisham Court Reach]		From a photograph		92
[Feather ‘under’ the Water]		From a photograph		102
[Practising Stroke (1)]		From a photograph		110
[Practising Stroke (2)]		From a photograph		110
[Practising Stroke (3)]		From a photograph		111
[Practising Stroke (4)]		From a photograph		111
[A College Four]		From a photograph		118
[Four-oar]		From a photograph		121
[Near Medmenham]		From a photograph		123
[Close Quarters]		Frank Dadd		127
[A Spill]		Frank Dadd		133
[Sculling Race, with Pilots in Eight-oars]		Frank Dadd		139
[Pumped Out]		Frank Dadd		141
[The Last of the Thames Wherries]		From a photograph		142
[‘Poetry’]		Frank Dadd		153
[Going to Scale]		Frank Dadd		157
[Smoking is Forbidden]		Frank Dadd		165
[‘Run a Mile or Two’]		Frank Dadd		167
[Four-oar]		From a photograph		178
[Early Amateurs]		Frank Dadd		192
[Windsor]		From a photograph		200
[A Foul]		Frank Dadd		238

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SHOWING

The	[Oxford]	Course		To face p.	288
„	[Cambridge]		„	„	296
„	[Henley]		„	„	318
„	[Putney]		„	„	322

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Introduction	[1]
II.	The Rise of Modern Oarsmanship	[26]
III.	Scientific Oarsmanship	[53]
IV.	Coaching	[66]
V.	The Captain	[79]
VI.	The Coxswain and Steering	[92]
VII.	Sliding Seats	[102]
VIII.	Four-oars	[118]
IX.	Pair-oars	[123]
X.	Sculling	[127]
XI.	Boat-building and Dimensions	[142]
XII.	Training	[153]
XIII.	Rowing Clubs	[178]
XIV.	The Amateur, his History and Description	[192]
XV.	Rowing at Eton College	[200]
XVI.	Watermen and Professionals	[217]
XVII.	Laws of Boat-Racing (their History, and Rules of the Road)	[238]
	‘The Temple of Fame’	[243]
	Appendix	[313]
	Index	[331]