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Tokyo Games Disrupted – 80 Years Ago
John Bull is resting for the 1940 Olympic Games. 1 August 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn This year is 80 years since it was not the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Göran R Buckhorn writes. Now is the time when it’s...
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Sailing Through the Course
2 August 2020 By Philip Kuepper ‘Now, class, listen up. I plan to pop quiz you on this. So, pay attention. ‘How the word “craft” [Old English craeft] came to refer to a boat, does not derive,...
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Göran Buckhorn: Rudie’s Medals and Plaques
R.C. ‘Rudie’ Lehmann, “Vanity Fair” January 1895. 3 August 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Here HTBS continues with another rowing object/s in the HTBS show-and-tell mini-series. This time Göran R Buckhorn is...
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These Old Boats
“These boats are in extremely poor condition.” 4 August 2020 By Ralf-Peter Stumme Ralf-Peter Stumme and his restoration team in Germany are working on two old boats from England, he writes. It was with...
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William O’Chee: When your Finest Possession is Memory
Frontispiece of the 1837 Brasenose College Boat Club Minute Book. All images reproduced by kind permission of the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford. 5 August 2020 By William O’Chee In...
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Daniel Spring: My Henley Medal
The article writer’s Henley commemorative medal from 1989. 6 August 2020 By Daniel Spring In the HTBS show-and-tell series, the turn has come to rowing writer Daniel Spring, a.k.a. ‘Fatsculler’, to...
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A 1954 Oxford Rowing Footnote
The 1954 Dark Blue crew racing in the Boat Race. 7 August 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn digs around in the archives and finds an article for The Dry Season Bottom-of-the-Barrel...
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Lionel Bailey: The 1960s Tideway Scullers
A framed photographed of the Tideway Scullers School oarsmen at the 60s reunion in November 2015. From left to right: Mike Sweeney, Ray Tollman, Mike Muir Smith, Andy Kapica, Dave Gramolt , Rooney...
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Rowing Toward the Core
9 August 2020 By Philip Kuepper The totora reed boats, rowed, on Lake Titicaca, gravitate to Isla del Sol, and Isla de la Luna, on which were born, on sacred rocks, the sun, and the moon, myths the...
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John Beresford: My Dad’s Scull
Jack’s Olympic scull. 10 August 2020 By John Beresford HTBS is excited to present the next installment in our series of show-and-tell. John Beresford writes about his father, five-time Olympian Jack...
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Larry Fogelberg: Vogalonga Medaglia di Partecipazione
11 August 2020 By Larry Fogelberg In this article, in the HTBS show-and-tell series, Larry Fogelberg writes about a medal handed out to those who participate in the famous regatta Vogalonga, Venice. A...
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Sportswriters and Rowing Correspondents
In the “Daily News” on Sunday, 9 August, Pete Hamill’s brother Denis Hamill, a former “Daily News” columnist, published a eulogy. 12 August 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn There are still sportswriters...
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Doing the Right Thing*: The Oxford Bursary
13 August 2020 By Tim Koch A ‘JustGiving’ page set up by Oxford University Boat Club, Oxford University Women’s Boat Club, Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club and Oxford University Women’s...
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Daniel Walker: Clydesdale ARC Whisky Glasses
14 August 2020 By Daniel Walker For the HTBS show-and-tell series Daniel Walker has chosen a pair of whisky glasses that recall an unexpected but fondly recalled afternoon. Two years ago this month,...
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World Rowing Moves to New Website
Photo: Twitter 15 August 2020 The other day, the World Rowing Federation, FISA, announced that the organisation has selected a new online solution provider, British-based digital agency Sotic. Tabled...
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Looking Through Michael’s Blue Eyes
16 August 2020 By Philip Kuepper There lay, in a smile, the little town crescenting the bay of everchanging shades of blue, boys dove into to cool off in the hot summer, too hot to stay out in for long...
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John Schoonover: A Navy Medal
17 August 2020 By John R. Schoonover For the HTBS show-and-tell series, John R. Schoonover has picked a 1920 Navy medal he won on eBay. In the early days of eBay, I acquired a handful of rowing medals...
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Beyond the Bubble
For many interested in rowing history it is sometimes necessary to remember that, in times gone by, rowing for pleasure in Britain was not just confined to well-organised groups of ‘gentlemen amateurs’...
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Sue Bushnell: Bert’s Blades
Bert Bushnell’s well-travelled blades. 19 August 2020 By Sue Bushnell Next in HTBS show-and-tell series is Sue Bushnell, who writes about a couple of blades which belonged to her farther, Olympian gold...
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Elizabeth Burnell: My Father’s “A Flying Visit”
The combination of oarsmen from Leander and Thames RC represented England at the rowing regatta at the 1950 British Empire Games: bow A.S.F. Butcher (Thames RC), 2. P.A de Giles (Leander), 3. W.A.D....
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