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...freshman crew is having some trouble with Waters of Troy about their shell. Waters demands that the freshmen shall pay freight charges for re-shipment; also for one or two extra coats of paper which are necessary to make the boat worth anything. In the meantime the freshmen are rowing in the '88 English shell, which is very badly rigged. If Theo get their own boat back by Saturday they will use it, if not they will have the English one re-rigged...
...probable that there will be a race between the Bowdoin crew and that of the B. A. A. The race will occur just before the Bowdoin crew goes to Ithaca to row Cornell. The B. A. A. crew is doing some good work in the barge; the new shell has arrived and the crew will soon begin work...
...university crew has been rowing in about the same order for the past two weeks. No change had been made since they adopted the new style of rigging, until yesterday, when the crew rowed in a paper shell for the first time, and again used a port stroke. The order was as follows: Goddard, '92, stroke; Jones, '92 7; Upham, '90, 6; Tilton, '90, 5; Perkins, '91, s; Watriss, '92, 3; Hutchinson, '90, 2; substitutes, G. Keyes, '89 and F. B. Winthrop, '91. Mr. Keyes has been out every day lately to coach...
...class crews are doing a good deal of work at present, and generally come in very late. The freshmen went out in the huge English shell, purchased by the '88 university crew. They have been changing the order of the men in the boat a good deal lately. Monday they rowed as follows: Keyes, stroke; Earle, 7; Nelson, 6; Kelton, 5; Vail, 4 davis, 3; Hathaway, 2; Burgess, bow. They seemed to be doing quite well, though of course a freshman crew cannot row a shell on its keel the first few days...
Waters, the boat builder, looked over the freshman shell yesterday, and thinks that it can be repaired and returned to the boathouse by Wednesday April...