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Show ROWING SPORT REJUVENATED Now Enjoying. New and Prosperous Popularity Among Amateurs Cleanest of Sports. About 40 years ago rowing was In Its heyday in this country. Alone in the earlv eighties there were New Han-Ion Han-Ion Jake Gaudnur, Teenier, Hosmer, Long Bob Fulton, Charley Courtney, Jim Ten Evck and the famous Ward brothers from Newburg. Funny how fashions have changed in sport. Who of the present decade can recall a professional pro-fessional rowing race? Yet father and mother were keenly interested in the game In the bygone. Rowing Is one of the finest exercises In the realm of sports, and. as far as amateurs are concerned, one of the cleanest. . There Is no "gate" In rowing, and It is one of the few sports in the whole category where those who promote it do so for the pure love of sport. |