GREAT ALL-ROUND ATHLETE

TO LEAD BRITISH OARSMEN

Bruce Logan is an Amazingly Versatile Young Giant Who Rows, Boxes and Plays "Rugger"- Has Often Had Friendly Bouts With Professional Fighters.

Transcribed from The Winnipeg Tribune (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Sat, May 25, 1912.)

Foreign and colonial oarsmen will meet at Stockholm, as a British competitor, one of the best all-round amateur athletes now contesting in England. Bruce Logan, stroke of the Thames Rowing Club "four" that has been chosen to represent England in the Olympic games regatta, is an amazingly versatile young giant who can do almost anything he puts his hand to in the athletic line.

He is, of course, best known as an oarsman. He is a familiar figure at Henley during the week of the great regatta at that famous river resort. The Thames Rowing club "four," which he strokes, has twice won the Steward's Cup, the highest honor, and is declared to be the finest crew seen in England in many years. Logan has also been a frequent winner in the singles.

In addition he is considered one of the best rugby football players in the south of England. Unfortunately his business - he is a partner in a London firm of insurance agents - affords him little time to play, and he is not regularly enough on the field to become a popular figure.

But it is in boxing that his heart is really to be found. Unlike most English amateur "mit pushers" he is not a highly skilled boxer, but relies instead upon his ruggedness and forcing tactics. Once he reached the English final and would have won had he not been suffering from a previous injury. On a subsequent occasion he reached the semi-finals.

He is well known to the majority of professional boxers who have visited England, and he has "mixed it" with Sam Langford, Jack Johnson, Billy Papke, Jack Burns and Jimmy Britt. Sometimes his willingness to take on any of the professional heavy-weights leads him into trouble, and a few months ago Bombardier Billy Wells broke the amateur's nose in a private bout at the Belsize Boxing Club.

Some of Bruce's "friendly" opponents mentioned in the article.