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...University crew left for Springfield yesterday...
...course coming out of the eight. It has not been chosen yet, but the first three men in the eight will have the same positions in the six. They will go to Saratoga immediately after the struggle at Springfield is over...
...spite of changes and the loss of their captain, the University crew is in a very favorable condition. Their endurance is wonderful, and a little more practice in small things, such as starting, will bring them into excellent form. The six to row at Springfield will probably consist of Bancroft, stroke; Bolan, 2; James, 3; Jacobs, 4; Thayer, 5; Morgan, bow. Immediately after the Springfield race these men will go to Saratoga and row in a six. The Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. have decided to try a paper boat in the Saratoga race, and an effort...
...other in Taunton; and next week two on Jarvis. Saturday the 24th they go to New Haven and play with Yale on Monday; they go then to play Trinity and Princeton; and, in case the game with Yale is lost, they will play the third of the series in Springfield on July I. For this trip they need money, and have decided, therefore, to call for a subscription to meet their expenses. They ask for five hundred dollars, and we trust that it will be speedily forthcoming. An examination of the treasurer's account will show that while the expenses...
...weeks from to-day the Yale-Harvard race will be rowed at Springfield; an event which must attract, besides the friends of the two colleges, many spectators, because it is many a year since an eight-oared race has been rowed in this country. Who will be the victors we cannot say until the crews get upon the course. From the newspaper accounts of the "crews and their prospects," nothing can be learned. The men who write them are generally more ignorant than a tyro about boating, and their sources of information are very indirect...