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...present weights of the Yale crew are as follows: Bow, Rogers, 163; 2, Simms, 165; 3, Brewster, 188; 4, Heffelfinger, 205; 5, Newell, 185; 6, Ferris, 190; 7, Ives, 175; stroke, Allen, 170; average, 180 1-8; coxswain, Thompson...
Besides these boats Mr. Blaikie is building a very light four-oar-almost a shell-without any coxswain's seat, to be used only by men of some skill. It is a boat twenty-two inches wide with two small laps. Another very heavy four-oar will carry a coxswain: it is thirty inches wide; and a lapsteak. Two lap-streak pair-oars are to be built by Blaikie and three wherries. These wherries are singles about two feet wide, lap-streaked and high enought to stand the roughest water ever seen on the Charles river. These boats though very...
...Thursday the crew rowed on the river. Finlay at 4 was replaced by Watriss '92 the other men remaining as they were the day before. Gregory, '92 went in as coxswain and the crew went up and down the river in front of the boat house under the eyes of Mr. Keyes. The men showed a tendency to go back too far. Stroke had a fault of going back too far; going forward also an unnecessary distance and jerking the oar out of the water. Six was slow with his hands and went back too far. Five was stiff...
...following order is looked upon as one that would not vary much from the final selection: 1, Rogers, '90, 163 pounds; 2, Simms, '90, 164; 3, Brewster, '91, 168; 4, Ferris, '91, 187; 5, Heffelfinger, '91, 197; 6. Newell, '90, 185: 7, Allen, '90, 170; 8, Harrison, '90, 163; coxswain, Neil Gray, Jr., '90. If Gill and Hartwell should consent to row, they would probably be placed...
Among the new candidates for coxswain of the crew are H. Gregory, '92, W. F. Baker, '93, and W. C. Nichols...