Rowing

On Thursday morning the illegitimate rowers gathered at the sheds to find a whaleboat. O.U.'s Rowing Controller had tried to get one one a ship but they were all on the rocks until high tide at 7 a.m. on the morning of the race. Anyway he told us to take the Haka Party's boat off the Harbour Board davits, about three miles away. This we did but found it was only a six-oared boat, which was hardly playing the game. So we handed the boat back to six stupetied members of the Haka Party and walked back around the waterfront. About this time our guide, philosopher and friend (Dunedin urchin) pointed out a Sea Scouts boat half-full of water but nevertheless an eight-oared boat. We were very disappointed when the legitimate rowers (by now almost dead from laughing) amended the Constitution to allow us to row a four and a double sculls without rowing an eight in the meantime I should mention that I had drawn the best boats for the sculls and the four out of the hat in the absence of our Rowing Club captain in due course the legftimate V.U.C. rowers came second in the fours and sculls, which were sterling performances and perhaps even inspired(?).

The Drinking Horn