INTERNATIONAL ROWING TURNS PROFESSIONAL We tried to row each 500 in the same time, and we would get pretty close. “We rowed the Princeton course in 7:06 in about the same conditions as the ‘48 Trials when both Jack Kelly and the pair had rowed it in 7:20. “So we figured we were competitive. 1952 Olympic Trials Logg: “We went up to the Trials in Worcester, Massachusetts a couple of days early and did another timer over the course, and we did that in 7:08. “There were nine entries, three heats of three boats. The first two in each advanced, while the third got eliminated. The first day we rowed against Ed Reynolds and Frank Strong, two Harvard boys [rowing for Union B.C.] who had been out of school a few years,3260 and we put on a sprint to beat them, but not by very much. 1 Rutgers 2 Union B.C. 7:51.0 7:55.0 3 Fairmont R.A. 8:02.7 “Afterwards we were talking to them, and they said, ‘Why’d you push so hard? We were so far ahead of the third boat.’ “Well . . . we didn’t have much racing experience, I guess. “So then the next day were two three- boat semi-finals with two in each advancing to the final. We rowed against Irv Miller and Steve Littauer, the Penn boys, and they’d won all the spring races in the pair that year, so we knew they were formidable competition. The temperature was 90˚ and the humidity was 95% or vice versa, and we remembered what Harvard had said, and 3260 Strong, 6’4” 193cm 190lb. 86kg, had rowed 6-seat in the 1947 Lake Washington Regatta Champion and was Captain in 1949. Reynolds, 6’3” 191cm 190lb. 86kg, had rowed 4-seat in the 1950 Grand Challenge Cup winners. See Chapter 63. since we were both so far ahead, we didn’t contest the finish with them. 1 Penn 2 Rutgers 8:45.2 8:47.7 3 Selfridge A.F.B. 9:05.4 “The next day, Steve and Irv had a steering problem. They got lost somewhere. Steve said, ‘I don’t know what got into Irv. He got carried away. I couldn’t keep up with him.’ “So we and the Harvard guys took off, and we rowed alongside of each other the whole race. That was the hardest race we had. I guess we beat them by about two and a half seconds.”3261 The New York Times: “Charles Logg, Jr., son of the Rutgers crew coach, teamed with Tom Price of Rutgers University to win the pairs-without-coxswain final. They had a length to spare over the Union Boat Club of Boston, with Detroit Boat Club twins, John and Arthur McKinley, veering off course almost into the far bank to finish third ahead of Penn’s duo.”3262 1 Rutgers 2 Union B.C. 3 Detroit B.C. 4 Penn passport, and I was 163. Drumsö Fjord “When we got over to Finland, in two or three days we had put a check in the middle of our brand new Pocock boat, just like the one at home, and George Pocock himself repaired it. He was the team boatman, and he had accompanied the boats all the way from Seattle to Helsinki on the deck of a Norwegian freighter of some kind. 3261 Logg, op. cit. 3262 Werden, op. cit. 7:08.2 7:10.6 7:26.6 7:28.2 Logg: “We were going to the Olympics! “After the Trials, I was weighed for my 909
