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...boat: Stroke, D. F. Rogers; 7, Mills; 6, Whitney; 5, J. O. Rodgers; 4, Hitchcock; 3, Marsh (captain); 2, McLauchlan; bow, Cram; substitutes, McGraw and Cadwalader. The average weight is 165. The freshmen will go to New London tomorrow noon. Their shell was shipped yesterday and their baggage went today. They will row on the Thames before sundown tomorrow...
LONDON, June 12. - The wind had almost subsided when the Cornell crew went over the course this afternoon. The crew, consisting of Matthews, Spillman, Hagen, Freeborn, Fennell, Dyer, Louis, and Hall(stroke), rowed a quarter of a mile down and back at a 46-stroke, after which they turned and went to the Fawley Court boat house. On the way to the boat house they made several short spins of about half a minute each, which were taken at about the same rate. The bodies of the men were even and steady. The boat rolled a little and their stroke...
This indicates in a still more striking way that Harvard has outstripped Yale west and south of Pennsylvania. Ten years ago fifty more students went to Yale from those states than to Harvard...
...Harvard-Yale race on the Thames has been marked by flags set at intervals of a half mile, today, by Captain Ed. Griffin, in the steamer Skip Jack, but the crews have not made use of them in speed trials yet. This morning the Harvard-Yale crews went into their boats at 10.30 and spent a couple of hours in rowing short stretches, in which the faults of the oarsmen were corrected by the coaches, and attention given to stroke and form. The Harvard crews pulled over the longest distances, coming down as far as the navy yard, accompanied...
...Bingham, this year's captain of the Mott Haven team, went to New York yesterday to attend a meeting of the executive committee of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which was to discuss matters connected with the proposed coming of the Oxford-Cambridge athletic team to America...