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...London, Conn., June 10.--J. R. Hoover '24, number two oarsman on the Second University crew, advanced to the same seat in the first eight this morning. The exchange, which sent G. S. Manford '25 to seat two in the junior boat, was made in the morning, remaining unchanged in the afternoon. Coach Stevens expects that, the change will be permanent, but he made no statement as to further shifts...
Coach Stevens has been giving, strenuous tubbing practice to each of the oarsmen. In addition to showing each man the fine points of the stroke while the two, oarsman and coach, are in the double shell, motion pictures have been taken and the man has seen his errors on the screen in the evening...
Yesterday the Crimson Waiters' eight took to the water for the first time. The boat neither sank nor over turned although some of the oarsmen did not rise to expectations. A spectator was heard to assert that "Jim" Combs was a better football end than an oarsman. However, the University should be well represented, for of the 18 eligible men, including, managers and retainers. Richard Trimble Jr. '26 who captained last year's Crimson eight, should be a winning factor...
...Freshman crew nearly swamped when it attempted its regular morning workout at 11 o'clock. Instead of putting the two University boats through their morning paces, Coach Stevens took each University crew man out in a two-oared shell, himself pulling the oar not used by the student oarsman...
Choate also won the Harvard Invitation Regatta last year, defeating their hereditary rival, Kent, by two lengths after a Kent oarsman had broken his blade at the quarter mile mark, leaving seven men to finish the race. These two crews will be in competition again in Cambridge next Friday...