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Matthews Six, - Stroke, 150 lbs.; 2, 180; 3, 185; 4, 160; 5, 170; bow, 159. Port side, 505; starboard, 499. Cox., 114. Total weight...
...Yale Freshmen have voted not to send a crew to Saratoga. A short time ago the Freshman crew was an excellent one, but it has been seriously affected by the loss of its stroke, Chandler, who has been taken into the University, and by the withdrawal of three others...
...crew brought with them nine men, one of whom returns to Williams to-day. John Gunster, their last year's stroke and now of the Nassau and Athletic Boat-Clubs, also accompanies them. The crew rows twice a day between ten and one in the morning, and in the afternoon to Watertown and back. This evening at 6.30 they will row over the Union Boat-House Course on time, in their new shell. The crew will return to Williams next week, to pass their annual examinations, and on the 3d of July they expect to go to Saratoga...
Passing to the individuals of the crew, No. 2 gets a fine catch, but the middle of his stroke is apt to be a little weak. No. 3 might sit up a little straighter to advantage. No. 4 is apt to "sliver," that is, to turn his oar for the feather before it is well out of the water, which has a tendency to drag the boat down on his side at the end of each stroke. No. 5 has picked up his steering very well, and though it interferes, of course, with his rowing, the only fault...
...need coaching, and a good deal of it. Their new boat is of better model than the last, as the floor runs farther towards the ends; but the men in the boat seem to improve but slowly. The crew is composed of good material, but needs more polish. The stroke waits a little at the beginning of the recover, - a very bad fault, - and there are many other failings among the crew. The swing together is not so perfect as it might be. No. 3 does not pull his stroke through, and wants to get more back into it. However...