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BLAKEY has finished the eight-oared barge for the University crew. It is built of white-pine, with mahogany wash-boards. A small keel covered with iron will protect the bottom in some degree from shoals and other obstructions. The dimensions are 47 feet by 38 inches; those of a six-oared barge are 44 feet by 26 inches...
Four new rowing-machines have been bought lately, and the crew are rowing together in eights. Last week Saturday four men were on the river...
...quarters of the crew at Springfield will be the same...
...matters as we have been in the past. A new era in boating began with the building of the boat-house in 1869, -an era of excessive expenditure and of much defeat. Before this time the boats had been housed in wooden sheds of the cheapest construction, and the crews had always paid their own expenses. But those good old days are gone. Rowing has become a science, and training-tables uniforms, hats, and sundry other items have swelled the cost of a crew into the thousands. Ten years ago the undergraduates gave the "Varsity" its boat. What does...
...challenges or invitations received by the President from Philadelphia and New York were taken into consideration. Mr. W. B. Close, the President of the Cambridge University Boat Club, telegraphed on Saturday to the New York Herald office that it will be impossible for the University to send a crew to compete at the race in July. The business of the Oxford Club we may be able to report next week...