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...rapidly and the boat is now moving more smoothly. The men get a good finish in their stroke, but lack the hard biting catch so marked in the Yale crew; they do not catch hard enough or quick enough. The crew has also shown a tendency to slug and yank the oars through the water instead of sweeping them through with a long, steady pull. These faults, however, are fast becoming eradicated by coaching, and today the crew is rowing more smoothly and with more power. The crew is a strong, hard-working eight, well able to stand the strain...
Bullard, at three, swings out at the catch, is unsteady in his time and is apt to yank his oar instead of sweeping it through the water...
...whole, the crew is rowing in very good time and the men are all working hard. They lift the boat, however, on the catch and kick it astern, and also yank their arms into their laps on the draw. The finish is also hurried too much...
...undertook to coach the Yale crew this winter and spring, finds that he will be unable to devote the necessary amount of time to the work. Hull, the captain of last year's crew, has been persuaded to complete the task. Mr. Hull was the great exponent of the "yank," which proved so disastrous the last two years, and he has had to receive considerable instruction himself in the English stroke of Captain Cook. For this purpose he recently spent a fortnight in Philadelphia under the coaching of Mr. Cook and Mr. Wood, who performed the same service two years...
From recent New Haven advices we have learned further particulars in regard to the Yale crew and its prospects for 1884. The names of the various candidates from which the crew will be taken has been published hitherto. As is well known the famous "yank" of 1882 and 83, has been discarded and in its place the old stroke of eleven years ago, introduced from England by Bob Cook, which won Yale the race at Longmeadow in 1873, has been revived under his careful supervision. Mr. Cook is amply satisfied with the material at hand and expects them...