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Coach Haines is getting in trim for a comp race with Mather Abbott, the Yale coach, a week from tomorrow. The crews are looking forward with great interest to this event, as each crew would consider a victory by its coach as a good omen. F. L. Higginson '00 of the Graduate Rowing Committee arrived at Red Top today...
...Thames,--the first two university crews, the Freshman crew, and a "Cosmopolitan" crew, the last composed of four university and four freshman substitutes. The boats had their first practice from their new quarters on Monday, and hereafter will row twice a day under the supervision of Coach Mather Abbott. Dr. Abbott, who is a member of the college faculty, was a former Oxford University oarsman, and for some time the rowing coach at Groton School. At the last visit of the Yale crew to Gale's Ferry, three years ago, he was assistant coach to the famous professional, Guy Nickalls...
After a period of jockeying for position which was prolonged by the effects of a fair tide, the two crews were started by Coach Mather Abbott of Yale at about 5 o'clock. The Crimson oarsmen jumped into a slight lead at the start, and then settled down to a steady stroke that drew them rapidly ahead of their opponents. At three quarters of a mile the University class crew led by two lengths, and increased this advantage quickly until at the mile point it had two more lengths of open water to its advantage. Here Kent broke...
Yale is anxious to resume the annual Thames regatta with the University this year on a pre-war basis, according to Professor Mather Abbott, faculty director of rowing at Yale. "I hope that the report regarding the decision made by Harvard is true," said Professor Abbott, when asked to express his opinion upon the recent recommendation of the University Rowing Committee. He commented further...
Professor Mather Abbot, Yale's faculty crew coach, who will again take charge of the squad, has outlined Yale's rowing policy for the coming year as follows: "No matter how poor an oar a man may prove, there will always be a crew for him to row on; a coach to instruct him, and a final race for him to row in at the close of the season. The coaches will never dismiss a man from the river...