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...know modern large-calibre guns enable the Germans to make it extremely uncomfortable for many kilometers behind the fighting lines by shelling the roads and villages. Even here once in a while a shell goes over our camp, but it isn't all on one side by a long way. Fritzie often goes hungry when the French make his roads impassable...
...once and forever the stamp of success upon Coach Herrick and the system which he stands for. Jumping into an early lead the University oarsmen set the pace the entire distance, gradually lengthening their lead until at the finish line three boat lengths of open water separated the shells. A half length lead at the first mile post was slowly increased until the final mile, when Lund pushed the stroke up a couple of notches and the University boat pulled steadily away from the blue oarsmen, who were rowing individually strongly but utterly lacking in rythm. The University boat...
Since this last overhauling, nothing more has happened in the way of shifting on the first crew. The crew has yet to show its true calibre, for imperfect shell equipment has been one of the main causes for the poor preliminary record of this year. A new and heavier Davy shell was brought into use about the first of June, and this should overcome any such handicap. The crew, as has been said, is a heavy one with the emphasis in development placed on staying power. The defeats by Pennsylvania and Cornell have not shaken the confidence of the coaches...
...rowing 40 strokes to the minute. The stroke was soon dropped to 36 and then to 38, and at the half-mile University A had a half-length's lead. Upon passing the mile mark both crews again dropped their stroke. There the Freshmen were waiting, and the 1919 shell, starting a length from behind, secured a beautiful start, and in one minute was up to the first crew. The Freshmen soon dropped to 32 strokes to the minute, but they held their own, for the finish was a dead heat between the 1919 boat and University A, with...
...still retained the place of H. S. Middendorf '16 in the first University crew today, since the latter was not able to return to practice. White, who has been on Crew A for two days, is beginning to fit into the boat better, but the unity of the shell is certainly not the same with Middendorf out. The check of Crew A which was troubling the coaches greatly the last few days is rapidly being eliminated, and with the return of Middendorf, this crew ought to be in remarkable form...