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Harvard had a huge crew-183 Ib. to a man-slow over sprint courses but formidable for a four-mile race like last week's at New London. In it were Coxswain Henry Hamilton Bissell, Stroke Gerard Cassedy and four other oarsmen who were on the crews that beat Yale last year and the year before. Coach Ed Leader's Yale boat, known to be fast, had won all three of its sprint races earlier in the season. But no one knew whether it had enough endurance for a long pull, particularly if the wind blew...
Last night the Freshman lineup was changed, and today the yearling crew took the river in the following seatings: bow, L.C. Farley, Jr.: 7, H.F. Atherton, Jr.; 6, W.S. Burton; 6, W.W. Prout; 4, R.D. Kernan; 3, R.S. Clarke: 2. R.S. Wolcott; stroke, Arthur Beane; coxswain, H.K. McVickar. The first-year men confined their activities to long paddles, rowing six miles this morning and eight miles this afternoon...
...will have the same boating for this race. The Harvard seating will be: stroke, W. D. Locke; 7, H. F. Atherton, Jr.; 6, W. S. Burton; 5, C. F. Brown, III; 4, J. E. Gardner, Jr.; 3, P. S. Weld; 2, R. S. Wolcott; bow, G. A. Matteson; coxswain, W. E. Howell. The Rollins boating will be as follows: stroke, E. N. Jenka; 7, J. T. Cadmore; 6, J. C. Williams; 5, H. P. Abbott. Jr.; 4, E. H. Bonclli Jr.; 3, N. B. Westen; 2, G. W. Edwards; bow, A. B. Whitelaw; coxawain, Douglas Chalmers...
...mile from the finish a police launch that was chasing the speedy outboard motorboat gave the Crimson crew another wash, and the Midshipmen. rowing at 36, got ahead by a deck Stroke Drury raised the Crimson beat from 33 as soon as the wash had subsided; and Coxswain Littlefield spurred the crew by telling them that there were only ten strokes to go when there were actually twenty. Drury and his crew responded with what was the best sprint witnessed this year on the Charles; and they nosed out the Midshipmen by a bare quarter-length...
Exeter: stroke, McGuire; 7, Dresser; 6, Hondrie; 5, Curtiss; 4, Tufts; 3, Johnson; 2, Newman; bow, Hutchinson; coxswain, Sweeny...