YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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HARVARD CREW WORK
Great Improvement in Reach—Mr.
Lehmann Pleased.
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Cambridge, April 10.—With the re-
turn of Mr. Lehmann to the country
three weeks ago, began the last and
nost important stage in the prepara-
tions “of! the Harvard Crew for
year’s boat race. The work of the crew
this year has been more satisfactory
to those who hope for a crimson vic-
tory in the triangular race than for the
past few seasons. The whole atmosphere
of the aquatic world at Harvard has
been healthier and freer under Mr.
Lehmann’s genial influence, There has
been complete harmony between teach-
er and pupils. The oarsmen not only
have full confidence in the ability of
their coach, but they respect his gen-
tlemanly and sportsmanlike qualities.
Again, throughout the University there
was a more hopeful and loyal spirit
manifest than for some years. All these
things have served to accelerate prog-
ress and lighten the task of the new
coach who has undertaken to restore
Harvard’s lost Supremacy on the wa-
ter. The work last Fall was prelimi-
nary in its nature. Mr. Lehmann stayed
long enough to explain his stroke to the
candidates, ground them thoroughly
in the essential characteristics, and
familiarize them with his methods and
theory of rowing. During his absence
the men spent the time in learning at
leisure the lessons which he had given
them. How well they succeeded appears
from Mr. Lehmann’s own comment on
their work: “I found them rowing in
MR, R. C. LEHMANN.
very good shape, far better, indeed
than I had expected. They showed
more confidence and greater steadiness,
which proved to my mind that they
had been carefully thinking out for
themselves, what they had been learn-
ing in the Fall and had been constant-
ly endeavoring to apply these lessons
under the guidance of skilful instruc-
tors. To put it ina different « way,
whereas in the Fall they had always
to be thinking, with the recurrence of
every stroke, of the various motions "
that they had to get through, as of
something more or less strange or un-
accustomed, it seemed to me when I
saw them in March that these motions
had become a sort of second nature to
them, and that they therefore per-
formed them with far greater facility
and precision.” Such high commenda-
tion was very gratifying to ex-Captain
Storrow and Mr. Mumford, who had an
eye on the men during the chief’s ab-
sence, particularly to Captain Goodrich
on whom the brunt of the coaching
fell, and, owing to his position, a heavy
load of responsibility as well. Since his
return, Mr. Lehmann has devoted him-
self assiduously to his self imposed
task and results thus far have satisfied
him. He is an enthusiatic coach and
is already casting a look ahead to the
approaching triangular race. He seems
to have caught some of the vigorous
spirit of rivalry which animates our
American colleges and which surprised
the more sedate collegians of Oxford
and Cambridge at Henley. But, with all
his earnestness, he manifests a sports-
manlike friendliness for his rival which
wins the esteem even of those who hope
most cordially to see him defeated next
June. His address to the Harvard stu-
dents at Sanders’ Theater last winter
was a splendid plea for manly sport
and if his listeners caught the spirit of
it, there will be no. occasion for future
disagreement in the athletic relations
of Yale and Harvard. To Yale, in par-
ticular, among Harvard’s competitors,
the -
he seems favorably predisposed, anq
speaks in warmest praise of the Yale
eight which rowed at Henley last July
“A finer set of fellows I never met ’
he said to me recently when referring
to them. He has met not a few Yale
men during his stay in this country
and has made many friends in the
enemy’s camp. The renewal of ath-
letic relations between the two uni-
versities has given him the greatest
Satisfaction and there has heen a
keener zest in the work of the candi-
dates during the past three weeks
Mr. Lehmann is with the candidates
mornings, taking them out in pair oars
and giving them special instructions
to correct individual faults. In the af-
ternoon the crew row in the shell and
he coaches from the launch. He has
also been giving some _ attention to
class crews and all the crews are row-
ing essentially the same stroke.
MR. LEHMANN'S THEORY OF TRAINING.
The reports that Mr. Lehmann has
introduced the English methods of
training and that the men are ajl-
lowed perfect freedom as to matters
of diet must not be taken to mean
that the men are allowed to do as
they please without regard to their
physicial condition. The English
views in regard to training are not
so strict as those that prevail among
American Colleges, but they are very
well defined, nevertheless. In this
connection Mr. Lehmann says: “I have
not required the men as yet to be very
strict in these matters, as we do not
insist on a long period of training in
England. The very object is to keep
the men in the hest physical condi-
tion. The greater freedom which can
be granted them without sacrificing
this end, the better, for it avoids mo.-
notony in the work. The candidates
are expected to keep good hours as
that is of course most essential. In
the matter of food, we allow anything
that is wholesome because the greater
the variety the better the appetite is.
Thus far I have allowed the men to
drink whatever they choose. Later it
will be necessary. to restrict them
somewhat. Ale will be the regular
drink. In England ale is nececssary
for the men in order to enahle them
to stand the training in our climate.
A long season of training, such as the
crews here have, would not he possi-
ble without it. In matters of this
kind, I shall wait and see what the
men require. The English crews are
allowed champagne
It freshens them up a little and we
think it prevents them from getting
stale. The chief difference between
our system and that of the American
athletes is that the restrictions in the
men with\us are imposed gradually as
the season advances.”’
THE CREW PRACTICALLY SELECTED.
The present makeup of the Universi-
ty crew is:
Stroke, J. F. Perkins; 7, Goodrich; 6,
Thomson; 5, J. H. Perkins; 4, Sprague;
3, Hollister; 2, Bull; bow, Wrightington.
In discussing the present outlook and
the work of the individual men Mr.
Lehmann says:
“The work in the barge has showed
a steady and continued improvement.
The stroke has lengthened out; the
swing and balance have become bet-
ter; the grip at the beginning is firm-
er; and the work of the blades in the
water is on the whole clean and
strong, although there is still obser-
vable a tendency here and there to
feather under water.
“At present, the crew, having just
taken to the shell are in one of their
transition periods, but there is every
reason to suppose that, when they
have mastered those elements of wat-
ermanship which can be taught only
in a racing ship, they: will show both
uniformity and pace.
“It is possible that one or two
changes may have to be made, but
my hope is that, accidents apart, the
crew may now be taken as complete
in its. main features.
“Physically, the men are a fine pow-
erful lot, fully as strong and _ well
developed as the Englishmen who
form the two University crews. They
have not had the same racing experi-
ence as their English cousins, but this
disadvantage may be to some extent
counteracted by the longer prepara=
tion which they will have to undergo
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