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...Lehmann will sail for New York on March 30, arriving on April 7. He will come to Cambridge a few days later and immediately start coaching the crews. He will be accompanied by Mr. Willis, who assisted in coaching last fall, and Mr. Harcourt Gold, a Leander man, who has stroked the Oxford crew for the last two years...
...with any collegiate association or any special body of affiliated clubs. Subject to the amateur definition, the big events for eights, fours, pairs and singles are open to the whole world. The colleges (but not the university boat clubs) of Oxford and Cambridge compete at Henley. So does the Leander Club which is formed almost entirely of Oxford and Cambridge men. Amongst other competitors may be mentioned the London Rowing Club, the Thames Rowing Club, the Kingston Rowing club, the Moulsey Boat Club, the Royal Chester Rowing Club, and the school boy clubs of Eton and Radley. The course...
...plenty of time for colleges which have been successful in their local races to re-form their crews and send them to Henley. Those university men who may not be rowing in a college crew entered at Henley can be and often are drafted into the crews of the Leander, London, Thames or Kingston Clubs...
...practice. Both he and Mr. Willis were in their boating clothes, one going in at stroke while the other acted as coxswain. Thus all the men had the advantage of rowing behind a finished oar. Willis usually rowed at stroke, the other men going in at bow, and the Leander man's rowing was in marked contrast to that of any of the others in its great smoothness and ease. Willis's blade work is perfect, and in every way he is a model of Mr. Lehmann's ideas of rowing. Work in the tubs will continue until Saturday, then...
...carriage then drove to the boat house and Mr. Lehmann spent the rest of the afternoon coaching the fours. He took one crew at a time and gave them each the benefit of a half-hour's coaching. On the launch with Mr. Lehmann were H. Willis of Leander, Perkins '98, C. C. Bull '98, and G. von Utassy...