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...Crimson oarsmen, undergraduate and alumni, are jamming the waters of the Charles from Watertown to the basin in preparation for the American Rowing Association Regatta here this weekend. They are riding in all sorts of odd-sized shells from singles to eights and fly the colors of nearly every boatclub along the riverbank...
...Crimson participants taken as a whole are a motley crew. Experience among the oarsmen ranges from none in the two week old Weld Boatclub crew, comprised primarily of bolters from the varsity football squad, to a great deal for the Crimson's third varsity eight, which will enter the Steward's Cup race. There are three different ight racs, first, second and third closs, and Coach Tom Bolles at Newell and Coach Blake Denison at Weld have entered their boats to correspond with the quality of the competition expected in each class...
...third Varsity heavies and the first 150's will carry the Crimson honors in the big race of the day, the Steward's Cup. They are pitted against the first Union Boatclub eight, manned by an intercollegiate alumni group including such Harvard notables as All-American, Phi Beta Kapa guard Chub Peabody, and against the LaSalle College Varsity heavies...
...stalwart sons into the world, sons of six foot and more, that there are more candidates for crews of Eight than the Newell can take care of. So they degraded me to the Weld, that is they graduated me backwards. But I kept up my pulls from the Cambridge Boatclub House for about six weeks after Newell and Weld had closed for the season. Yours truly C. R. Lanman...
...last three years, since the fall class races were given up for the sake of foot ball, scratch races have been held by the boatclub. The object of these races is to afford the college at large a few hours exciting entertainment and to keep awake an interest in boating at Harvard during the fall without injury to our foot ball prospects. The four senior eights will be chosen from those entered either by lot or by four men selected for that purpose by the boat club. These crews will probably be composed of experienced oarsmen, although a few inexperienced...
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