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...seats in the boat. It therefore behooves the new men to do their best. It is possible that one or two 'varsity men will join the crew, but not more than one or two. For last ten days the crew have been rowing the slide, and Saturday the full stroke was rowed for the first time...
First crew-Stroke, Miller, 156. He reaches round with his left shoulder and does not keep his back straight at full reach. His body is not steady at the finish, he meets his oar, hurries his finish, and does not keep his oar high enough at full reach. Otherwise his rowing is very good...
...Baldwin, 137. He is slow at shoot and catch, does not straighten his arms out or row his stroke...
...Sargent has just introduced into the rowing tank a new apparatus for measuring the different strokes. A tin cone is weighted to float just below the surface, and from the cone a string runs to the measuring machine. It is fastened to a bar of metal, at the other end of which there is a pencil. The pencil is constantly leaving a a mark on a sheet of paper moved by clock work. At every stroke the rush of water against the cone causes the pencil to make a sharp deflection in the course it is tracing on the paper...
Simms is being tried as stroke of the Yale 'varsity crew...