Show oarsmen oarsman work hard A professor at yale university ha baa been making tests with regard to th the energy used by trained racing oars men lie tells us london tit bits notes that they are more efficient than roost most gu soline and steam engines an we one fourth of the energy produced by the men goes directly toward driving the boat special apparatus showed that during a race an oarsman breathes 10 gallons of air a minute each man ann produces nearly four horsepower horse power in energy at the start of a race and in a four nille mile event his big body will use up fuel equal to nearly half a pound of sugar |