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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Cannot something be done to insure sending a four-oared crew to the intercollegiate regatta to be held at Saratoga on July 4th? The hotels have offered free transportation and accommodation, so that the cost of such a crew would be comparatively slight. The necessary expenses would be somewhere between $400 and $500, and surely such a sum could easily be raised for the purpose. The objection that shall immediately be made to sending a crew, is that there would not be time to shake a four together after the Yale race, and that any other crew...
...would be perfectly possible to pick out a four from the class crews immediately after the class races. This would leave nearly two months before the regatta at Saratoga, which ought to be ample time to get a crew together, as the men will already be in condition. This is practically the method adopted at Oxford and Cambridge. There is no reason why Harvard should not be willing to be represented by a crew chosen in this way. Such a crew would be thoroughly representative of this style of rowing, and would (for the distance) very likely be faster than...
...part from the desirability of being represented at Saratoga, four-oared rowing is too fine a sport to be neglected in the list of Harvard's athletics. Fours are very different from eights, and in many respects much more scientific. An eight-oared crew is much more difficult to get well together, but a four requires of its crew a thorough knowledge of watermanship, and a delicate control of the oar, which but few men who have rowed exclusively in eights ever possess...
...correspondent writes from Yale to a New York paper that he thinks her inferiority in boating is largely caused by the close policy carried out by the managers of the Yale navy. It has been their policy during the last few years to keep everything about the 'varsity crew secret, and to allow no one to approach them white on the water. They never pull against another crew till they meet us for the final tug on the Thames. The only method which they have of ascertaining what speed their crew can get on is that of time rows...
...eight under conditions the most favorable as far as they themselves were concerned. That is, the race was to be for a mile and a half, their most practiced distance; they had been rowing together for at least a year under professional coaching, and they were to meet a crew whose little training had been exclusively devoted to four-mile pulls, and which was, therefore, unqualified, other things being equal, to cope successfully with men whose strong point was a mile and a half spurt. Nevertheless, this crew, with their professional trainer and his methods, was beaten by Columbia...