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...have mastered circumstances, some accident has cast a gloom over the brightening prospect. Captain Perkins is still unable to take his position in the boat, but will probably be back very soon. He watches the crew from the launch. At present the order in the boat is as follows: Stroke, Powers '92; 7, Kelton '93; 6, Vail '93; 5, Cummings '93; 4, Lynam, M. S.; 3, Rantoul '92; 2, Watriss '92; bow. Newell '94. Saturday substitute Jones '92 was tried in place of Cummings. Harry Keyes 88 is now coaching the crew and will stay with it until after...
...candidates for the Columbia freshman crew have been reduced to eleven men, whose weight and usual order is as follows: Stroke, Nichols, 167; 7, Perine, 147; 6, Buckhout, 163; 5, Demarest, 164; 4, Meikleham, 163; 3, Pardow, 148; 2, Benkard, 148; bow, Douglas, 142. Subs., Holder, 148, Kraus, 142, and Hamilton, 147. Average weight...
...Stroke, Perkins '91, age 21, weight 168, height...
...Stroke, Captain Parker '91, weight 187, age 22, height...
...easterly breeze caused very bad water on the exposed stretches. At 4.40 p. m. the two crews succeeded in getting into satisfactory positions and Mr. Richards the referee gave the word to start. Both crews caught the water almost at the same moment, and Bowdoin started off with 40 strokes to the minute, Harvard rowing 36. The difference between the two styles of rowing was very marked from the start. The Bowdoin men made no attempt to keep their backs straight but caught the water with a jerk without regard to form. The boat kept her keel owing...