Word: welds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Courtney, coach of the Cornell crews, who will watch the work of the Weld and Newell oarsmen this fall, arrived in Cambridge yesterday and in the afternoon followed in the John Harvard the first and second Weld and Newell crews in their practice row. The first, second and third Weld crews will go over the mile and seven-eighths course on a time row this afternoon, and Courtney will follow them in the launch...
After the changes made last Monday in the orders of the Weld graded crews, the crews will probably remain substantially the same until the race. Too fast a recover and too slow a turn at the finish are errors common to all the eights, but improvement is expected to result from the recent changes in the boats...
...Freshman crews at both clubs, besides sharing the faults of the graded crews in regard to the recover, show weakness in the stroke through the water. The Newell Freshmen are particularly weak at the finish. The Weld Freshmen are not only weak at the finish, but wash the oars out in the middle of the stroke; altogether they seem appreciably less advanced in development than their rivals at the Newell. The chief cause of their slow progress is the lazy irregularity of their work, although there seems to be added to this an unusual inability to master the rudiments...
...First Weld Graded-Stroke, Wolcott; 7, Hartwell; 6. Brooks; 5, George; 4, Greenough; 3, Maltby; 2, Sanger; bow, Dillingham; cox., Chase...
...Second Weld Graded-Stroke, Richmond; 7, Lindsley; 6, McLeod; 5, Abbott; 4, Hanford; 3, Derby; 2, de Rham; bow, Johnson; cox., Whitney...