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...barge. - Atherton, bow; 2, Penrose; 3, Chadburn; 4, Locke; 5, Upham; 6, Lincoln; 7, Adams; stroke, Hartley; cox., C. P. Curtis...
Yale seems determined to stick by her new stroke this year. Yale men in general seem to favor it, the News advocates it, and the Record says : "It was not their stroke or their boat that beat the Yale crew, but a misfortune which could not have been foreseen or averted. All that we can wish for is the same stroke and the same crew next June...
...Stroke, W. B. Peet...
...following comments on the personnel of the Harvard crew are given : "Curtis, slender, intellectual of countenance, as becomes a true Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the ponderous Chalfant, with a trunk like Schwartz's and with massive legs and thighs, in boating parlance, "puts plenty of beef into his oar" at every stroke. Then come Hudgens, tall and squarely built; Clark and Hammond, men of height and brawn; Sawyer at No. 2, where he rowed last year...
...stroke this year is rapid, being about forty-two per minute. The muscles of the back are brought into use to a large extent, although the appearance of the men while rowing such a quick stroke indicates the contrary...