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...because some of its best men have gone to Brown and also because, as it is rumored, Brown has hired several professional players for the coming season. The college supports no crews but recalls with pride the year when Amberst won a race from both Harvard and Yale; the shell in which that race was rowed, now almost in splinters, is placed as a memento in the drill hall of the Agricultural college. The Athletic association numbers among its members many men well-known at the Mott Haven games, A large team will be sent to Boston to take part...
Wrestling-J. K. Shell...
...Davy, of Cambridge, has got his eight-oared shell well under way. It is a very good looking craft; the builder has avoided as much as possible the faults of being at taught to any one idea. Mr. Davy is trying to make a boat which will move steadily through the water; he insists that it must be neither too high nor too low in the water, that it must not be too flat-bottomed nor too full forward; he tries to make her stiff and fairly light. The Harvard crew is to try her when she is ready...
...their class crew in the fall, and, failing to get on, never see anything more of rowing than some painful, spiritless drudgery in an eight oared barge or on the rowing weights. Now out of all these men there are few who, if introduced to shell rowing or racing of any kind, would not be enchanted with it, and many during their whole college course would engage in rowing as others do in tennis. There has not been room, heretofore, in the boat-house for more boats than those used by the class and 'varsity crews, but since...
...SALE.- A rowing shell in first rate condition...