4 68 SPORTS AND GAMES 



Nautique, over a course: of 2,111 metres. The winners' time of 6 m. 43 s. was estimated 

 as equivalent to 6 m. 55 s. or 7 m. on a calm day at Henley. The English victory was 

 made the occasion of an extraordinary ovation by the Belgians. The winning crew was 

 composed of E. C. Henty, H. J. Shields, C. Hudson, H. E. Swanston, S. Hudson, H. M. 

 Goldsmith, G. E. Fairbaim, T. M. Crowe (str.) and C. A. Skinner (cox). 



In the University Boat Race of 191 1 Oxford won by 2$ lengths in record time: 18 m. 29 s. 

 Cambridge also beat the old record, 18 m. 47 s., held by Oxford, 1893, and Cambridge, 1900. 

 The names of the crews were: Oxford: C. E. Tinne, L. G. Wormald, R. E. Burgess^ E. 

 Millington Drake, C. W. B. Littlejohn, A. S. Garton, D. Mackinnon, R. C. Bourne (str..) 

 and H. B. Wells (cox); Cambridge: S. E. Swan, P. V. G. Van der Byl, F. E. Hellyer, C. F. 

 Burnand, R. le Blanc Smith, J. B. Rosher, G. E. Fairbairn, R. W. M. Arbuthnot (str.) and 

 C. A. Skinner (cox). The contest of 1912 took an unprecedented course, necessitating two 

 races. In the original race both crews sank, and though Oxford re-embarked and reached the 

 winning post, the umpire, Mr. F. I. Pitman, -in the exercise of his discretion, declined to 

 award them the victory. A second race was rowed two days later in almost equally rough 

 weather and resulted in a victory for Oxford by six lengths in 22 m. 5 s. It was R. C. Bourne's 

 fourth year of stroking the winning screw, a record unparalleled in the history of the race. 

 The crews were: Oxford: F. A. H. Pitman, C. E. Tinne, L. G. Wormald, D. D. Horsfall, 

 A. H. M. Wedderburn, H. F. R. Wiggins, C. W- B. Littlejohn, R. C. Bourne (str.) and H. B. 

 Wells (cox); Cambridge: R. W. M. Arbuthnot, D. C. Collins, H. M. Heyland, R. S. Shove 

 J. H. Goldsmith, R. le Blanc Smith, L. S. Lloyd, S. E. Swann (str.) and C. A. Skinner (cox). 



At Henley Regatta both in 1911 and 1912 the standard of oarsmanship was high. In the 

 latter year the width of the course was reduced by ten feet, and the additional outside margin 

 was located on the Bucks shore, with the object of equalising the value of the two stations 

 by moving the boats to leeward of a "bushes" wind. The King and Queen visited the 

 regatta and the Queen distributed the prizes. The most noteworthy feature of the racing was 

 the capture of the Grand Challenge Cup by an Australian eight. The following is a list of 

 Henley results: Grand Challenge Cup, (1911) Magdalen, (1912) Sidney R. C., N.S.W.; 

 Ladies' Plate, (1911 and 1912) Eton; Thames Cup, (1911) First Trinity, (1912) Rowing 

 Club de Paris; Steward's Cup, (1911) Thames R. C., (1912) New Coll.; Visitors' Cup, (1911) 

 Third Trinity, (1912) Christchurch; Wyfolds Cup, (1911) Pembroke, Cam., (1912) Queen's, 

 Cam.; Silver Goblets, (1911) J. Beresford and A. H. Cloutte (Thames R. C.), (1912) Bruce 

 Logan and C. G. Wright (Thames R. C.); Diamond Sculls, (1911) W. D. Kinnear, (1912} 

 E. W. Powell. Of the Wingfield Sculls, W. D. Kinnear remains the holder. 



The professional sculling championship of the world returned to England after many 

 years through the victory in 1912 on the Thames of E. Barry over R. Arnst, who had beaten 

 him in 1910 on the Zambesi. In 1911 R. Arnst defeated H. Pearce on the Paramatta. Barry 

 was challenged by Durnan, a Canadian, but easily defeated him on October 14, 1912 over 

 the Putney-Mortlake course. Barry had twice rowed successfully in 1911 for the pro- 

 fessional sculling championship of England. 



At the Olympic regatta in Stockholm, over a course of 2000 metres, a Leander eight took 

 the chief honours, defeating their Henley conquerors, the Sydney crew. England was less 

 successful in the fours, rowed with coxswains, the Ludwigshafen Club being victorious; but 

 Kinnear secured the Olympic trophy for sculling without great difficulty. 



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Shooting. 



Game Shooting. The report of the British Grouse Disease Inquiry Committee, 

 published in 1911, furnishes an important addition to the knowledge necessary for the 

 proper management of a grouse moor. The committee, appointed in 1905, was never 

 empowered to draw public money, but its members gave voluntary work through six 

 seasons, and succeeded in tracing beyond reasonable doubt the origin of the mysterious 

 disease which at intervals has decimated the stock of grouse on many moors. 



This grouse disease is due to a threadworm, Trichoslrongylus pergracilis-, with which all 

 grouse are infected. Healthy grouse in a year free from disease throw off the attack, but 

 there is a point at which infection becomes too strong for the bird, and it succumbs. The 

 predisposing cause to an outbreak of disease is a shortage during the winter and spring months 

 in the supply of the young heather shoots which form the staple food supply of the grouse. 

 At the end of a good shooting season it may happen that too many grouse are left on the 

 moor in proportion to the heather supply. The grouse become crowded, the larvae of. the 

 threadworms accumulate from the droppings of the grouse on the patches of heather loft 

 uncovered by snow where the birds must congregate for food. These patches become in- 

 tensely infected, and the tips to which the larvae find their way are eaten by the grope.. 

 These, : when weakened by insufficient food, are unable to throw.off the aggravated infection.' 

 The remedies are prophylactic: (i) reduction of the stock by harder shooting, (2) increase^ 

 of food supply by burning old heather, (3) extensive draining, since the threadworm flourishes 



