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...varsity crew rowed in a shell for the first time on Friday. The men seemed absolutely enable to row the boat on an even keel, and came in that night considerably discouraged over the day's work. On Saturday they went out in the shell again. M. R. Peet of New York, coach of the Columbia crew for several years, was on the launch. Mr. R. C. Watson was also on the launch and coached the crew in conjunction with Adams, L. S. The men had great difficulty again in keeping the boat on an even keel...
...flick" at the finish which enables the oars to be brought out of the water clean, and then comes in the feature advocated by J. Watson Taylor-the shooting out of the arms from the body like the "rebound of a billiard ball from the cushion." This gets the shell of the hands easily. The hands are shot a trifle downward, feathering being done at the same time, and then follows the slide forward, in which the ingenuity of Mr. Cook excels. Instead of the eight men letting their bodies move gradually forward on the slides, allipull on their stretchers...
...sophomores had the first crew on the river in a shell. After one day's experience in the shell, however, the men returned the barge. Keyes has been ill, and his place has been taken by Pike. Saturday Captain Burgess had the boat made up as follows: Stroke, Burgess; 7, Davis; 6, Slade; 5, Earle; 4, Pike; 3, Hand; 2, Miller; bow, Ellsworth...
...that he could manage it, and that he knew how to swim. The crew rowed down to the basin, and Shaw, after rowing about for some time in front of the boat house, followed them. It was just below the Western Avenue bridge that the accident happened. Whether the shell struck on a sunken pile and capsized, dragging Shaw under by the toe straps, or whether Shaw, finding the boat tipping, jumped, and owing to his heated condition was seized with the cramp, it is hardly possible to say. The latter conjecture is perhaps more probable as the boat...
...varsity crew of Columbia College rowed on the river last week for the first time. The men are all worked in pair-oared gigs till their form and stroke permit them to do work in the shell...