Category: History - British
As parts of human life and practice the out-of-door games and amusements with which Englishmen are familiar have had a long course of development, and each has its own history. To trace this development and history in any particular case is not always an easy task. Most of the...
Laws of boat-racing, until 1872, were variously read by various executives. One rule was common to all, and yet differently interpreted by many an umpire or referee. It was that...
12. CHAPTER XII.Training is the _régime_ by means of which condition is attained. Its dogmas are of two orders: (1) Those which relate to exercise, (2) those which refer to diet. Diet of itself...
1. CHAPTER I.As parts of human life and practice the out-of-door games and amusements with which Englishmen are familiar have had a long course of development, and each has its own history....
16. CHAPTER XVI.The London waterman is the oldest type of professional oarsmanship. He was called into existence for the purpose of locomotion, and race-rowing was a very secondary consideratio...
2. CHAPTER II.Written records of rowing performances in the last century are but scarce. In 1715 Mr. Doggett, comedian, founded a race which has survived to the present day--to wit, 'Doggett'...
15. CHAPTER XV.The River Thames flows so near the College of Eton that it necessarily affords an attraction to the boys at least equal to the playing fields, and has always been frequented for...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The formation of a 'club' for the pursuit of any branch of sport gives a local stimulus at once to the game, and lends facilities for the acquisition of merit in the performance...
10. CHAPTER X.Sculling needs more precision and more watermanship than rowing. The strongest man only wastes his strength in sculling if he fails to obtain even work for each hand. A pair-oar...
7. CHAPTER VII.The best use of them was but imperfectly realised by those who first adopted them; and many of the earliest examples of sliding-seat oarsmanship were sufficiently unorthodox, ac...
22. PART IV.--PROCEDURE.21. _Penalty for offence against the Act._--Any person convicted of an offence under this Act shall, where no other penalty is provided by this Act or any of the Acts mentioned...
5. CHAPTER V.The captain of a boat club is the most important member of it, from a practical point of view. In some clubs, as with the Universities, he is nominally as well as practically su...
3. CHAPTER III.The first principles of oarsmanship may be explained to a beginner in a few minutes, and he might roughly put them into force, in a casual and faulty manner, on the first day of...
4. CHAPTER IV.For reasons which were set forth at the commencement of the chapter on scientific oarsmanship, the very best oar may fail to see his own faults. For this reason, in dealing with...
11. CHAPTER XI.The 'trim built wherry' of song has been improved off the face of the Thames. Originally it was purely a passenger craft: it contained space for two or more sitters in the stern...
6. CHAPTER VI.The 'cock-swain' wins his place chiefly on account of his weight, provided that he can show a reasonable amount of nerve and skill of hand. A coxswain is seldom a very practical...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The old theory of an amateur was that he was a 'gentleman,' and that the two were simply convertible terms. The amateur of old might make rowing his sport, so long as he did not...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The fewer the number of performers in a boat the longer does it take (with material of uniform quality) to acquire absolute evenness of action. This may seem paradoxical, but no...
9. CHAPTER IX.More than one master of oarsmanship has declared that good pair-oar rowing is the acme of oarsmanship. Just as there are fewer oarsmen who can do justice to a four-oar than to a...
19. PART II.--REGULATION OF PLEASURE-BOATS.7. _Registration of boats._--In addition to the rights and duties of the Conservators relating to registration and tolls already created by the Thames Navigation Act, 1870, the...
18. PART I.--NAVIGATION.1. _Public right of navigation._--It shall be lawful for all persons, whether for pleasure or profit, to go and be, pass and repass, in boats or vessels over or upon any and eve...
21. chapter thirty-six, or any other statute or any rule of law to18. _Acquisition by agreement of right of abstracting water from the river._--Where any company or person is entitled under any Act of Parliament, grant, custom, or otherwise, t...
20. PART III.--GENERAL POWERS.17. _Conservators may accept and hold land for certain purposes._--In addition to their existing powers to take and hold land, it shall be lawful for the Conservators to accept...