THE SPORT OF ROWING color of medal. The Russians won Bronze from Lane 6, and we hammered them in the opening heats – so much so that the Russian crowd whistled at their losing eight as we finished. The Czechs took Silver, and we beat them up in a pickup eight stroked by Kenny Brown in Heidelberg not even ten days later.”5165 Martini Achter Mickelson: “A bunch of us of us went on and won the ‘Martini Achter’ race in Heidelberg and got a new boat out of it, and that certainly helped us the following year. “Shealy didn’t go, and he regretted it later. Kenny Brown stroked it, and I ended up in 7. We had such a good time.”5166 Gluckman: “Dietrich Rose said, ‘Let’s put a boat together and go to Heidelberg and race for the Martini Achter.’ “He grabbed a whole bunch of different guys. We borrowed a boat that looked like a piece of crap, yet the boatman said, ‘This boat is fast!’ “It was a banana hull, but the boat was fast.”5167 Coffey: “The boat we raced in there was borrowed from one of the clubs on the river, and it had a lot of camber to it. Back in those days when I raced I was 205-210 [93- 95kg], but I think I was out of the water in the bow of that thing. “And because of all that camber, it was like riding a hobby horse up there, but obviously we made it work.”5168 Gluckman: “Everybody wanted to win this beautiful Empacher wooden boat. It was like a piece of furniture. The Norwegians entered with all their scullers, and we ended up winning. We crossed the line, and the Norwegians said, ‘Good row, 5165 Stevenson, personal correspondence, 2006 5166 Mickelson, op. cit. 5167 Gluckman, op. cit. 5168 Coffey, op. cit. America . . . and God Bless the Queen’ because they knew one of our borrowed rowers, Hugh Matheson,5169 was a Brit. Stevenson: “Hugh Matheson, a lowland Scot from Hawick, is a longtime friend of mine. We had both lived at St. Elmo’s Club along Locust Walk while he was studying at the University of Pennsylvania “He had been Junior World Champion in the eights from Eton in 1967 or 1968, I think. He was an Oxford Blue, multiple winner at Henley and multiple member of Britain’s National and Olympic crews. He later rowed 5 in GB’s ‘76 Silver Medal Olympic Eight and won the Diamond Sculls in 1979.5170 “We had all been in Moscow together, and the Dietrich trip to Heidelberg promised too much fun to resist. This transpired ‘cause we were all so very frustrated by the mendacity of the FISA officials officiating in Crylatskoye, the Moscow Olympic course.5171”5172 Gluckman: “After the race, we rowed the new boat off the dock about a hundred meters upstream and two hundred meters downstream, and it was rock solid. Rock solid! “We gave the Empacher oars to Dietrich. We gave the boat to the National Rowing Foundation, and the next year the U.S. rowed that same boat to the World Championship.”5173 1974 Mickelson: “Allen Rosenberg came along in ‘74. Here was a new coach, and everybody was trying to prove themselves. 5169 See Chapter 117. 5170 He also beat Peter-Michael Kolbe at Henley in 1978 and would later finish sixth in the 1980 Olympic Singles in Moscow. 5171 See Chapter 79. 5172 Stevenson, op. cit., 2007 5173 Gluckman, op. cit. 1428
