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...YORK, May 8.--Coach Rice put the University crew through lighter practice than usual this afternoon, the men rowing up the Harlem for half a mile and then down to High Bridge. In a number of racing starts the first crew pulled ahead of the second and maintained their lead from High Bridge. The crews returned to the boathouse in several easy stretches...
...work of the University crew yesterday afternoon was varied in character. The men went upstream to the Brighton bridge, rowed down as far as the Boylston street bridge, and then took a stretch upstream again as far as the Stillman Infirmary, before returning to the University boathouse. The distance covered was about 4 and 1-2 miles. At times a fairly fast stroke was rowed, and at other times the crew merely paddled. In the single racing start that was attempted the University crew was able to pull ahead of the second. Considerable improvement in the first crew over Tuesday...
...change was made in the order of the second crew with an eye toward selecting the eight that is to go to the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia on May 25. Macdonald was moved from 3 in the second eight to number 3 in the four-oar; Swaim went from 5 to 3 in the second; and Hanfstaengl, who has been rowing in the four-oar went into Swaim's seat at 5. Fahnestock went into the four-oar as stroke in place of Hyde. The second crew was balanced better in the new order, but did not row well...
University crew--Stroke, Tappan; 7, Amberg; 6, Glass; 5, Richardson; 4, Bacon; 3, Faulkner; 2, Fish; bow, Burchard; cox., Blagden...
...Second crew--Stroke, Farley; 7, Morgan; 6, Lovering; 5, Swaim; 4, Lunt; 3, Macdonald; 2, G. Bacon; bow, Wiggins; cox., Arnold...