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Capt. Robert J. Cook, familiarly known as "Bob" Cook, has been talking again about the "English" stroke and the debt owed by the American colleges to himself, who first introduced the stroke in this country. In an interview with a reporter of the Philadelphia Bulletin, Capt. Cook speaks somewhat as follows...
...with the view to investigate the system of rowing observed by the college men there. I remained there long enough to gain a thorough knowledge of the art. I can assure you that I had not been at Oxford or Cambridge long before I appreciated the superiority of the English method. I saw at once that my previous knowledge of rowing amounted to nothing. It was all-wrong, and I at once set to work to master the proper system...
...Yale adhered to the English stroke with undoubted success. Harvard, too, had in the meantime adopted it. In 1876 I left college, and from 1877 to 1880 Yale abandoned the new system, through the mismanagement of those at the head of its boating department, and resorted, as of old, to a professional coach. The result was that Harvard, with the English system, and no professional coach, won the college boating championship successively in 1877, 1878 and 1879. In 1880 and 1881 Yale, through the efforts of William Wood, who was one of my crew, go back to the system...
...National Lawn Tennis Association has decided to hold the next annual tournament at Newport the last three days of August and Sept. 1. The ball adopted for use in all the games of the association clubs in America in place of the English ball heretofore...
Tutoring in all freshman courses, all History courses, Sophomore Rhetoric, English 8, Political Economy 1, and all subjects required for admission, by Robert Luce, A M., sub-master of the Waltham High School. Apply at 54 Weld...