Word: launching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Phillip Allen, captain of the Yale '90 crew, is in New Haven coaching the crew and will probably remain for some time. The new steam launch Yale is now in use daily by the coach and is giving entire satisfaction. Bob Cook is also in New Haven doing a little coaching...
...work, and all the five crews seemed to make the most of it. The 'varsity crew was without its coach yesterday. Five or six men were taken out for a few minutes in pair-oars, then Slade was placed at No. 7, and Kelton watched his crew from the launch for about an hour. Then getting into his old place, the crew took a long stretch to the boat-house. As a whole, the crew seems to be rowing fairly well for this season of the year. There are a number of individual faults, and the men are not together...
Thomas Stevens, of bicycling fame, has the first chapter of "Across Europe in a Petroleum Launch. From the German Ocean to the Black Sea." It is the description of a trip in a naptha lauch, up the Elbe, across to the Danube, and down to the Black Sea. The syle is very bright and vivid, and the article makes delightful reading, like nearly all of Stevens' work...
...been put into the crew yet. Perkins has been coaching him in a pair-oar with Slade. Adams has been doing some pair-oar coaching, then going out with the crew later in the afternoon. It is unsatisfactory to try to do much coaching without the launch. Today the launch is expected and the coaches will be enabled to do much more effective work...
...coaching was done by C. F. Adams, 2nd, who coached from the coxswain's seat, as the launch will not be put in use for some time. Mr. Keyes watched the men row last Saturday and from time to time he may be expected to coach the crew, although it is very seldom that he can get away from business...