Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-04 | Page 10 | Sitting in Overflowing Bathtub Similar to Punt Trip on Thames

Sitting in Overflowing Bathtub Similar to Pu Punt t Trip on Thames R Romantic c Impression Dispelled as Treads Water Vater I While Pole Sti Sticks ls to River Ri Bottom I I Difficult I ICU I t to Be B e Languid L I w. w L By HENRY McLEMORE l r United Press Freas Sports Writer HENLEY ON THAMES HENLEY THAMES Eng June 4 4 I 1 punted on the Thames Sunday but dont don't be jealous All youve you've got to do to gain the same effect is fill the bathtub to the top climb in with y your ur clothes on and while sitting In snugly ugly on the bottom take a broom or mop handle and try and ind push the tub out Into the hell hall holLI I II I know you think Im I'm exaggerating because like myself your Idea of punting probably was gained from some moving picture In the movies punting is most elegant The heroine hero ine Lee a picture of loveliness in dotted swiss jumper languidly reclines recline on the bottom of the punt while the hero in spotless flannels guides the punt now beneath cool graceful willows wil wile lows low now through a covey of swans only recently returned from the dry cleaners In the movies the punt is h a beautiful shining thing that tildes glides along alon with only an occa occa- Ional push from the hero bero But Bat the one I bad had looked like some lome thing thine retired from the West Indies Indies In In- dies cUes cocoanut and hemp trade and the combined efforts of all the Harvard varsity oarsmen from 1900 on couldn't have moved it a knot at arday day It had a leak in it too and as punts have no seats other than the floor I was treading water five minutes min mm utes after leaving the dock Id I'd like to see sec anybody's anybody s sweetheart be languid Ian lan guid Euid in the punt I had To accomplish pUsh that they'd either have to have havea a mermaid somewhere in their jam fame fly ily line or wear a diving bell bene Moving a punt is something to be reckoned with too You dont don't get gel any oars Simply a tremendously Lly heavy pole like the ones tightrope walkers use to balance themselves lve with Correct Corred punting technique calls for the gentleman to stand Inthe in inthe inthe the stern and jab the pole down to the bottom thus driving the craft craU long Several things thins conspire to tomake tomake make this little short ibort of sible In the first place the average average aver- aver age are man cant can't wield a a. telephone pole In the second the bottom Is II io so sticky lUcky that hi once the pole polo Is poked Into It there are but two tv alternatives for tor the punier punter punter-be he can either jump out of the boat and take a a. a stance on the pole after the manner of a L pelican on ona ona a buoy or let the pole ro go and run the risk of drifting into the open lea ses ea I Legend has it that punts ar are arc ideal for or courting ones one's betrothed That's pure l legend gend The Th only thin thing on one courts in ln a punt is disaster Id I'd jU just juat t la jai lid lief make love in a Kansas twister Io a Sicilian eart earthquake F.