DISPUTES THEORY THAT ROWING HARMS HEALTH

Evidence that rowing, in spite of claims to the contrary, is not injurious to health, is introduced by the Harvard Alumni Bulletin in its latest issue. The Bulletin finds that fifteen of the sixteen men who rowed in the Heuley Regatta on the English Thames twenty years ago are still living and in good health.

These same men, who made the trip to England to compete against their British rivals, also took part in the gruelling four-mile races at New London against the Blue, either immediately before or just after their sojourn abroad.

Crew has come in for serious criticism of late when it was discovered that the fatigue of rowing caused heart failure, enlargement of the heart, and other in juries which shorton the lives of men who participate in that strenuos sport.

Another indication of the longevity of crew men was given recently when all the members of this same 1914 crew that won the Grand Challenge Cup on the Thames that year held a reunion at the Newell Boathouse. Every one of the men who sat in the victorious boat was present at the reunion and took a trial spin on the Charles. In all but one of the cases the man had increased considerably in weight, but critics said they showed excellent form.