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Chapter 2 20Th Century THE SPORT OF ROWING To the readers of www.row2k.com The Amateurs tional photos and anecdotes. If you find any typos in this or the other This is the fourth and final installment chapters, or if you have any questions, on row2k of my retelling of our American comments, suggestions, corrections, agree- Iliad, the story of the U.S. men’s scullers of ments, disagreements, additional sources 1984, first told by David Halberstam in his and illustrations, etc. please email me at the best-selling book, The Amateurs. address below. Your input will be an essen- This draft chapter sees the saga to its tial contribution to what has always been conclusion at the 1984 Olympics from the intended to be a joint project of the rowing rowers’ perspectives. community, so please contribute. If you and I end up finally disagreeing on some rele- The following .pdf is in the format in- vant point or another, I will be thrilled to tended for the final printed book. It is from present both alternatives so the readers can the fourth and final volume. decide for themselves. All my contact info is at my website. I will also be at the World Rowing Coaches’ I need you! Conference in London in January. All these chapters are still a work in Or you can email me anytime at: process. In fact, thanks to the feedback I have been receiving from row2k readers, [email protected]. you can go back to the first three install- Many thanks. ments and find updated versions with addi- TThhee SSppoorrtt ooff RRoowwiinngg AA CCoommpprreehheennssiivvee HHiissttoorryy bbyy PPeetteerr MMaalllloorryy VVoolluummee IIVV PPlluuss ÇÇaa CChhaannggee ddrraafffttt mmaannuussccrriiippttt OOcctttoobbeerr 22001100 THE ERA OF POLARIZATION 142. 1984 Olympics Olympic Trials – Lake Casitas – Andy Sudduth The Plot Thickens to let them race against Altekruse and Bouscaren. Lewis: “Harry‟s squad returned to On Wednesday, June 20, the two doubles did fifteen power-20s. Tiff and Hanover for its final tune-up before the 6637 Trials – ten days away – and within a few John, “filled with fury and rage,” won hours of settling in, the rumor mill began to them all. churn. First off, Tiff and Biggie raced a The next day, June 21, they rowed four double against the Love Boat.6635 Without 1,000s. Tiff and John won the first by half a having practiced and using a slower boat, length. Charlie and Joe won the last three, Tiff and Biggie defeated it by half a length. but very narrowly. “Tiff was overjoyed at the thought of At that point, Harry called off the rowing with Biggie. Joe and Biggie, best of competition. Tiff then asked to seat-race friends, had roomed together upon returning Bouscaren. Harry turned him down. from Lucerne, but immediately following Tiff and John kept rowing their double. that fateful practice, Joe moved into a On Sunday, June 24, they put Biglow in the stroke seat, and “the boat seemed to take different room. 6638 “Harry soon stepped into the fray. He off.” Tiff asked John if he wanted to row entered Biggie‟s room and closed the door. the double in the Trials the next weekend, When Harry emerged, Biggie was firmly in and John said that he did. the single, and Tiff was on his own.”6636 When this idea got out, all hell broke loose. That was when Joe moved out of That was the way Brad heard it from a John‟s room and Charlie moved out of Tiff‟s distance. It was actually much worse. room. The team got home from Lucerne on Tiff and Biggie continued to wrestle Monday, June 18, and the Trials were with the idea for two more days until scheduled to begin on Friday, June 29. Tuesday, June 26, when Biglow finally Biglow quickly suggested to Tiff that they bowed to enormous pressure from row a double in practice with Tiff stroking, Bouscaren, Altekruse and ultimately Parker perhaps to give his back a bit of a rest and and backed out. perhaps because he had been rattled by his relatively poor showing in Europe. Of Of course, that was just about the end of course, Tiff was all for it, and Harry agreed a life-long Olympic dream for Tiff Wood. Unless he could get into a Trials-winning double or quad, the best he could hope for 6635 Lewis‟ derogatory nickname for Altekruse would be to be named sculling spare, an and Bouscaren, after a cheesy American television situation comedy. 6637 Halberstam, p. 180 6636 Lewis, Assault, pp. 102-3 6638 Ibid, p. 181 1891 THE SPORT OF ROWING agonizing third Olympics for him without Enquist: “Our speed on the first day rowing a single stroke in competition. back together after the Camp had been just a Tiff told Harry he was quitting the shadow of what it became right before the Camp immediately and called Brad Lewis. Trials. We had had time to heal both Tiff was finally ready to try their double. physically and mentally from the stress of With Brad committed to Paul, Tiff‟s the Camp, and time to learn how to row second call was to Jim Dietz. Dietz agreed. together. It was Tuesday night. The Doubles “The Lewis / Enquist double that Trials began on Friday morning. showed up at the starting line of the Trials Dietz: “Tiff and I had only a few days to was nothing like the one that had rowed at get a boat, get it reasonably rigged and get the Camp.”6642 ready for the race. We had to borrow a boat because Harry would not allow us to race in The atmosphere was tense as the boats one of the Camp doubles that he controlled. lined up for the final. “Sportsmanship!”6639 Lewis: “Charlie Altekruse, in the next Wood: “Rowing the double with Jim lane over, turned to us and said, „Good luck, was a desperate act at that point, for both of guys.‟ us, less than a week before the Trials. Harry “Neither Paul nor I responded in any was pissed at me for leaving the Camp, but I way.”6643 had nothing to lose.”6640 Their focus was unwavering after weeks of shadow rowing and Mike Livingston‟s Really! You couldn’t make stuff like tape. this up. Halberstam: “Brad Lewis had found the perfect role for himself, the outsider Olympic Doubles Trials spurned by authorities, the challenger versus the favorite who had been given all the advantages. He was absolutely comfortable, Altekruse: “The problem was that we 6644 got sent to Europe, and then we came back, absolutely ready.” and it was sort of a double-jeopardy thing. We didn‟t have anything to win and Casey Baker and Dan Brisson from New everything to lose. Also, I was suffering York A.C. led early with Lewis and Enquist from bronchitis and on prescription a solid second. Brad and Paul made their antibiotics. I was on the mend, but I know I move at 750 gone, overtook the leaders at was not 100%.”6641 the 1,000 and never looked back. Dietz and Wood moved into second with a final sprint, Seventeen doubles entered the Trials in but they were well over a length of open water behind the winners. Princeton. Three heats Friday morning with one to qualify, followed by three repêchages 1 Lewis/Enquist 6:35.50 Friday afternoon with one to quality. Finals 2 Wood/Dietz 6:41.13 on Sunday. Lewis / Enquist won their heat. 3 Baker/Brisson 6:43.00 Altekruse / Bouscaren and Wood / Dietz 4 Bouscaren/Altekruse 6:43.10 also made it through to the final. 5 Ruane/Van Dusen 6:52.28 6 Spousta/Meyers 7:07.74 6639 Dietz, personal correspondence, 2009 6642 Enquist, personal correspondence, 2009 6640 Wood, personal conversation, 2009 6643 Lewis, op cit, p. 122 6641 Altekruse, personal conversation, 2009 6644 Halberstam, p. 187 1892 THE ERA OF POLARIZATION Dietz: “The speed that Tiff and I had in 2 Bruce Beall, University of Washington the last 500m was great. With a little „84, and bow Curtis Fleming, Orange Coast practice we might have been able to put College and UCIrvine, a teammate and together a better starting 500m that would training partner of Brad Lewis off and on have had us in better position at the finish. since high school. “Hindsight!”6645 Wood: “But we were second. For what 6646 Aftermath we had, I think we did okay.” Altekruse: “We finished fourth in the With all of his boats defeated, Harry Trials. We were just dead. There was no Parker offered to resign as Olympic Coach. way we were going to win that race, 6647 This had to have been one of the toughest although we went out there to try.” days in his long and storied career. Halberstam‟s retelling of Harry‟s self- Olympic Quad Trials reflection is very poignant. Mike Totta: “My recollection was that Later that same day came the Quad the Olympic rowing people gave Korzo the Trials, no heats necessary, just a final. eight job right after the 1983 Worlds – the Altekruse: “In a last desperate attempt decision happening in late August or early to make the Olympic Team, Joe, Tiff, Dan September, and from that moment until Louis and I jumped into a quad to race our December most of us in the sculling group own Camp Quad (thereby automatically in Boston saw very little of Harry. switching the anti-camp crowd allegiance to “At least part of the success in 1983 had us!?!?)”6648 been related to months of almost daily Dietz: “I did not go out to race in that double and quad rowing up and down the quad at the 1984 Trials.
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