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...management has ordered another English shell from Sims & Sons, exactly like the boat the crew is now using. If the new shell arrives in time, it will be used in the Cornell race...
...over the inside course. The work was very encouraging and the crew continued the steady improvement shown in Cambridge early in the week, getting a better proportion throughout the stroke, and quickening the catch. Owing to the change from fresh to salt water all the riggers in the new shell had to be lowered. Coach Wray followed the work in a single, the weather being splendid...
Balch has been rowing in a single shell and not in the eight because he is not yet in condition; Whitney has filled his place. Waid has not been in the boat this week on account of tonsilitis. From now until the end of the season, the competition for bow will be between Balch and Whitney; for 3, between Hooper and Metcalf...
...Senior and Junior classes who appreciate the responsibility which this fact lays upon them. The class rowing season lasts only six weeks, the drudgery is reduced to a minimum, and the work is exhilarating; yet two classes have not energy enough to man one eight-oared shell! If this humiliating indifference continues, we should like to see the class presidents take the matter in hand...
...shell for the University crew, presented by Mrs. Robert Bacon, which was made by George Sims & Son, of Putney, England, arrived in Boston yesterday morning on the steamship "Cambrian." From Boston it will be taken to the Newell boathouse and during the spring practice will be given a thorough test by the University crew. The new shell is 61 feet long and is of the American type, all the seats being placed directly over the keel instead of being alternately to port and starboard as in all English boats...