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...Blue oarsmen are scheduled to leave Philadelphia tonight and to arrive in Cambridge tomorrow morning; they plan to practice on the Charles tomorrow and Friday. Both the first and second eights are bringing their own shells, one of which, according to Mr. Herbert Reed of the New York Evening Post, "is one of the triumphs of the shell builder's art", carrying all the weight of the heavy first eight and not "sousing down" at the finish of the pull-through...
...boat. S. B. Kelley went back to the bow position, his place at 3 being taken by T. L. Eliot. G. R. Johnson is now working the latter's old slide, while B. F. Rice-Bassett has been advanced to number 2 in the first shell. This shake-up adds materially to the crew's poundage, raising the average slightly over 170 to the man, while the remarkable record made by the 1925 eight last Saturday bears out Dr. Howe's judgment in the placing...
This branch of athletics is at present to be confined within the scope of the university, and is not intended for outside competition, and many candidates for seats in the rowing shells who have not yet become "regulars" will find splendid opportunities to help attain their highest ambition in rowing, that is, a seat in the varsity eight--by daily exercising in a shell...
Although the coaches are not disturbed by the failure of the second crew to measure up to the first eight, they feel that the shell is down at the bow and is not rowing together well. In an endeavor to smooth out these difficulties, Dr. Howe will try out the new men and shift the present combination...
...Howe took the two University crews upstream yesterday and gave them a work-out considerably easier than has been the rule for the past few days. Now that the first eight has been chosen the first problem is to get the men accustomed to the new shell and more generally to prepare the two eight for the Pennsylvania race; Dr. Howe is now concentrating on these ends...