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...Mott Haven team is now hard at work, there being in all 206 candidates. They work in four squads and have about the same exercise as the other teams. They begin with the chest weights, practice hurdling at different heights, go through the dumb-bell drill, practice starting in the cage, and wind up with a short run. There are some very promising candidates and it seems as though the Harvard men should get a large majority of the novice events, as well as the handicaps, in the B. A. A. Meeting. Since the list of entries was published...
...training consists of the conventional round of work; first, rowing on the weights, followed by dumb-bell exercise and a run up the avenue. D. R. Vail '93, is acting as coach, and is gradually getting the men into better form, but naturally there is considerable awkwardness owing to the short time the men have been together and to inexperience, many of the men never having tried to row before...
Since the Christmas vacation, the junior crew candidates have been at work very assiduously every afternoon going through the regular routine of dumb-bell exercise, a half-hour's work at the rowing-weights, and a brisk run of from three to ten miles. Up to last Saturday, over twenty men had it in their mind's eye to row in the '93 boat next May; but on Saturday, the ambitions of several of these were unavoidably thwarted and at present exactly sixteen men are left in the lottery for places, - that is, sixteen men exclusive of Capt. Burgess...
...very good performers may be developed for the winter meeting, in spite of the fact that almost all of the men were new at the work. At quarter of five about forty men turned up for light exercise. Dr. Sargent put them through a number of easy movements without dumb-bells. Everything points to the great success of these classes, and the college owes a large debt to the gymnasium authorities for their commendable promptness and energy in arranging for them...
...trying for the positions of either pitcher or catcher. The others will begin immediately after the mid-year. In the meantime the new candidates are practiced in stopping grounders and in starting. After this they run to the gymnasium, sometimes directly and sometimes taking longer distances, and end with dumb-bell exercise, varied, now and then, by work on the chest-weights. The men who are now in training are: Lake '92, Washburn, Fearing '93, from '94, Lowell, Linfield, Frothingham, Quigley, Harding, Paine, Hapgood, Hoag; from '95, Rogers, Whittemore, Heard, Manning...