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CHAPTER X.

SCULLING.

Scutsinc needs more precision and more watermanship than rowing. The strongest man only wastes his strength in scull- ing if he fails to obtain even work for each hand. A pair-oar requires more practice to bring it to perfection than any other boat manned by oars, but a sculler requires considerably more practice than any pair of oarsmen. Strength he must have in proportion to his weight, if he is to sear above mediocrity, but strength alone will not avail him unless he gets his hands well together.

His sculls will overlap more or less. [Et is practically im- material which hand he rows uppermost ; the upper hand has a trifle of advantage, and for this reason Oxonians, whose course is