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Fennessy, who now weighs 175 pounds. is still at five, where he will very likely remain, as the order of the crew will not be changed unless it is absolutely necessary. The chief fault he has is that he shortens the stroke by not pulling through from the stretcher...
Stroke. Captain Thompson is slow at the catch and in throwing full weight from stretcher; he is also behind on the shoot...
...have a poor finish. Although they sit up well and do not bury their boat at the finish, they are clumsy with their oars, so that they back water and splash when they take their oars out. They also fail to get a hard, vicious shove from the stretcher at the beginning and all through the stroke, and the crew is not well together. The men and approximate weights are as follows...
...recover; rows well. Six keeps his oar too high on the recover, especially at the full reach; as a consequence he clips. Swings out on the recover and often kicks his slide out behind him so far that he fails to keep his weight on the stretcher. Five over-reaches and hangs; feathers his oar too flat and keeps it so till the full reach. Four catches too hard and swings back too far; otherwise pretty good. Three, apt to drop down at the full reach and rows too much with his arms. Two is weak at the finish...
...Pulsifer, '90, 171 pounds. Goes back too far and does not get a good body reach; stiff in his movements and does not get away from his stretcher well...