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Every man who had so far reported for either the University or 1923 crews was given a chance to work out in a shell yesterday when Coaches Haines and Brown had a total of 27 crews out on the river during the afternoon. Of these, 15 were from the Newell Boat House, which includes both the University and club crews, and the remaining 12 were composed of Freshman candidates from the Weld Boat House. These latter are being organized as far as possible, according to dormitories, thus carrying out the inter-dormitory system of athletics as planned for this fall...
Other assistants of Dr. Lee and Mr. Geer will be Derrick C. Parmenter '13, now one of the football coaches; W. Haines, recently returned form overseas, where he was in general charge of the special training battalions for gassed, wounded, and shell shocked men of all classes, and Carl L. Schrader, for years in charge of the Hemenway Gymnasium exercises...
...second boat was reinforced by its captain today, as G. L. Batchelder '19 returned last night with his injured knee entirely recovered. He rowed at his old position at number four in the second, which lost a short brush to the Freshman shell in both morning and afternoon practice...
...University crews spent the morning practising starts with the gun, finishing up with a fast half-mile race, in which the first shell out-distanced the second boat by half a length...
During the afternoon D. H. Morris '21 was seated at number four in the first boat and C. W. Greenough '19 in the same position in the second shell...