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...Captain Cowles was particularly fortunate in having but one vacancy to fill on the crew this year - that caused by the graduating of E. T. Lynch, who rowed No. 4 last year - and four men still remained who had taken part in the race of 1881. These old and well tried oarsmen were W. A. Moore, D. E. Reckhart, H. R. Muller and Captain Cowles himself. The 1882 new comers, who had been well tested and found up to the mark, were E. Fitzgerald, D. P. Porter and W. Wheeler. The crew is seated in the following order...
...addition of Van Sinderen to the rear of the boat now gives Columbia a four sitting together that it would be well nigh impossible to duplicate for uniformity in style and general excellence... The work done by the crew during the two months they have been in the boat, has had the effect of perfecting them in uniformity of time, and there is plenty of 'lift' to the boat when on the stroke...
...Captain Cowles gives it as his opinion that with 36 or 37 strokes per minute his boat travels faster for a distance of three miles, or even less, than if the crew is hurried up to 40 and kept at that rate. At the fast stroke the rowing becomes short and scratchy, and the energy of a heavy crew is wasted in swinging back and forth instead of the power being reserved as much as possible for the driving of the boat along when the oar is in the water. The training stroke of the crew has ranged from...
...annual race with the Harvard freshmen Columbia has again been able to secure a lively lot of young oarsmen with a really good stroke. As is natural with a crew selected in the way usual with freshmen, there is not much polish about the work, but there is evidently plenty of willingness, and all they require is a little care and attention to make them fully as good if not better than the freshman crew of last year. Up to Wednesday last they had been using the '83 class boat, which was not rigged to suit them...
Several changes have taken place in the freshman crew since Borland went into the University. Hamlin is now rowing seven and fills the place very successfully. Hartley is rowing six and Barnes has gone back from seven to five. Cabot has taken Hartley's place at four. Brown is rowing two. Ayer and Vogel have recently gone to the training table as substitutes. The crew leaves for New London on the 19th. The crew are rowing in poor form and show very little interest in their work. As only about two weeks remain before the race...