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...Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, R. I., is building the steam launch for the University Crew. Mr. Alexander Agassiz made the contract for it. The cost will be $3,600. The craft will be so arranged that the machinery can be controlled from the standing room forward or aft, and the direction can be changed without swinging round, as she will be sharp at both ends. The Company guarantee a light boat, that will run as fast as an eight can row and that will not make a wake which will interfere with the shells...
...average of the Yale Crew is 184 1/2 pounds, but "the intention is to reduce this 10 pounds." The positions in the boat will undoubtedly be as follows : Collins, bow; Folsom, 2; Hull, 3; Fuller, 4; F. W. Rogers, 5; G. B. Rogers, 6; Storrs, 7; King, stroke; Knevals, coxswain...
ELSEWHERE will be found a critical article on the class crews. The facts are only presented there without drawing any conclusion, and each reader is left to decide for himself as to which crew is most likely to win the race. At this early date to assert that a certain crew will be successful would be unsafe. The result of the spring races of '79 should be a warning on this point. Then the Junior crew was thought to have an excellent chance; what really happened is still remembered. To place now the present crews in the order of their...
...Freshman crew one, three, and five (sometimes) sliver out, that is, fail to pull a through-stroke; one and two don't get reach enough; one, three (only a little), five (only a little), and six meet. Two falls to port at the finish, and three puts in his oar too deep in the beginning. Four, though a faithful worker, has a lamentably short reach, does n't swing back far enough or straight, and gets his oar too high from the water on the full reach. Five clips, and six settles. Seven settles, squirms, and does n't pull...
...FRESHMAN CREW...