Payne Whitney, ’97, is slightly below
the average of the crew in height, but
is very stocky and quick. He has been
pronounced the quickest man in the
boat at learning any new point and
making improvement after coaching.
He rows No. 2 on the University. He
rowed on his school crew at Groton,
was No. 6 in his class crew, and a sub-
stitute in the Yale crew which went to
Henley last year. He pulls a very
powerful oar. His home is New York
City,
David F. Roi gers,’98, of New Canaan,
Conn., is bow of the Yale crew. He is
one of the lightest men on the crew,
and is apt to be easily overtrained.
He, however, can always be relied
upon to pull as powerful! and steady
stroke. He comes of a family which
has already furnished three University
oarsmen to the Yale Navy, and ability
to row seems to have been born in
him. He rowed on his Freshman crew,
and came very near to making the
University last year. He prepared at
Day’s School.
George T. Marsh, ’98, substitute, of
Lansingburg, N. Y., prepared at Wil-
liston Academy. He rowed in the boat
club at his home before entering Yale,
and was No. 3 and captain of his
Freshman crew.
Paul Mills, ’978.. of West Point, N. Y..
prepared at St. Paul’s, where he rowed
on the Shattuck crew. He rowed No. 7
on his class crew, and was a substitute
on the University last year. He is an
extremely strong and powerful man,
and has vlaved half-back on the Uni-
versity football eleven.
Louis Greene. ’99, coxswain, is from
‘Albion, N. Y. He was formerly in ’98,
and coxed in class crew. but illness
compelled him to drop hack a vear, in
798. and he also ‘‘coxed”’ the ’98 crew.
This is his first vear as coxswain of
the University, and he has proved a
most efficient and capable coxswain.
ard is the possessor of a fine, clear and
vowerfu! voice. which does much to
inspire the crew.
WwW. W.
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Vale’s Three Shells.
Yale has taken three shells to Pough-
keepsie. Two of them are the cedar
shells built by Davy of Cambridge for
the University and Freshman crews
The University boat was received in
New Haven three weeks ago, in time to
be used in the race with the University
of Wisconsin on Lake Saltonstall. It has
been found very satisfactory in every
item but its weight, which exceeds by
over 50 pounds the maximum prcphecied
by its maker. The Freshman boat, built
later. and received at Gales Ferry a
week ago, is the exact duplicate of the
shell built for the University in every
respect save that the seats are rigged
somewhat higher. The third shell is a
paper one just received from Waters of
Troy. Its chief merit is its lightness,
and if after a hard trial it proves suffi-
ciently firm and rigid, this saving in
weight will doubtless commend it to
the use of the University crew for the
WATE ATU
WY Eee
HARVARD UNIVERSITY: CREW.
W.H. Whitbeck.
S. Hollister.
J. F. Perkins.
C. Thomson. A. A. Sprague.
D. M. Goodrich.
G. H. McDufiie.
OO) Ball:
’
BE. N. Wrightington.
race. It has so far been tried but once,
and did not then prove entirely satis-
factory, but the rigging at the time of
the trial was not quite correct, and a
second trial may prove more favorable.
The length of the two cedar shells is
63 feet. The paper shell is three feet
shorter. Stripped of their outriggers
th boats weighed as follows: Cedar
shells, 240; paper, 209. The outriggers
add about 40 pounds to the weight of
the boat.
A matter of 40 pounds in weight
might prove an important factor in
the success of the crew in the four-
mile race. It is not, however, of such
ereat importance as the rigidity of
the boat.
—_— ee
The Next Weekly.
The next issue of the WEEKLY will be
on July 8. This will be the last num-
ber of Vol. VI.
YALE Chevy.
At Quarters at Gale's Ferry.
P. D. Mills. W.E.S. Griswold. F. W. Allen. J.C. Greenway.
D. F. Rogers. P. H. Bailey. H. G. Campbell, P. Whitney.
G. T. Marsh. G. Langford. L. F. Greene.
(Photograph by Corbin & Konold.)
E. A. Boardman.
alike when they get
R. D. Huidekoper.
(Photograph by Pach.)
G. D. Marvin.
J. H. Perkins.
HARVARD'S EIGHT.
One or Two Points About the Stroke
—Statistics of the Men.
Poughkeepsie, June19.—Harvard’s ex-
periment this year is too well known
to bear repeating. Defeat after defeat
had eonvineed the defenders of the
Crimson that there was something
wrong. The material was all right last
year, indeed, many considered it the
best crew Harvard ever sent out, but
defeat still made the Crimson banners
droop. With the boat right, the men
right and the water right, it must have
been the stroke that was wrong. Yale
had found a better crew than she
could send out at Henley. What can
beat Yale at Henley can beat Yale
at Poughkeepsie. So reasoned the sons
of Harvard.
On Friday the test will be mads.
But it will not be between two alto-
gether different strokes. Back fron.
Fienley Mr. Cook brought still another
impulse toward the English stroke, and
the two crews will look in many points
uader way off
Crum Elbow on the great day.
I have watched the Harvard Crew
row for several days; indeed Mr. Leh-
mann and the Harvard men were good
enough to take the Weekly representa-
tive with them in the John Harvard one
day when they were to send the crew
over a three-mile time trial. The men
rowed well. It is not the English stroke
in its completeness, however. The reach
forward is not so extreme, the back is
not bent so much as was to be expect-
ed from Mr. Lehmann’s pupils, and the
hands are not so high on the breast at
the finish as they might be. It is a
good, clean, hard stroke. Mr. Lehmann
had much to say to the men about
getting the hands out quickly at the
finish and about straightening up, two
things that one does not so much ex-
pect to hear an Hnglish coach insist
on, but things that to an American
seem natural. The time was good, if the
writer’s instinct is to be trusted. The
men rowed steadily at 32 and the stroke
was hard at work all the time.
The coxswain wears a small mega-
phone before his mouth, and if he has
anything to say it is heard. The course
was down stream, from Crum Elbow to
the bridge and the men went back
against the tide, after a few mirutes’
rest, in gocd form.
The Harvard boats are all cedar; not
a paper shell in the house. They are
fitted with high. washboards, for the
race is to start at three o’clock and the
wind will, in all probability, not have
dropped by that time. At any rate th
Tiarvard men evidently mean to be
prepared for. rough water. |
Usually the University Crew and the
Freshmen have two chances each at the
oars a day. They do not go out to-
gether for Mr. Lehmann is not coach-
ing the Freshmen.
Captain Gocdrich seems a little wor-
ried and a trifle fine. In other respects
the men are in good condition.
Ser SoA Ro Se os i eee ie A oa a he oe
R. C. LEHMANN.
Coach of Harvara.
The University Crew iS rowing 4s
follows:
Age. Ht. We.
Bow—G. D. Marvin, °299, New
HaChGHEe ~ 30a cs ss ss eee 154
7 C.. Ball, 238. Belmont,
Coals 5 as eee ss og Ses Wy 52-9 167
3. BE. N. Wrightingten, ’97,
isrookline,. Mass. i600. bees 22 5 914 110
4A” A, Sorazue, 2d; 296
CCAS: Sie sc a ce sn sees 2 6. %- 16
5. J. H. Perkins, ’98, Milton,
Ei es Sap og sw 0 a's we 6 226 1 Ae
7. D. M. Goodrich (Capt.),
ae. Akron, Gane ss isi ects ts 20 6 1% 170
Stroke. E. A. Boardman, ‘99,
BOSTON 65.05% eee eee os ease ee 21 510% 157
Coxswain. R. Ss. Huyde-
koper, 798, Washington...... 21 510% 113
Substitutes:
S. Hollister, ’97, Santa Bar-
para: Cals. .<<.4ie5 oso: cess Bae 10%, 18
Cc. Thompson, ’99, Philadel-
1 0) TERRA et SS pe ere pers fe y A Aaa | eae | 174
Cc. H. MeDuffie, 99, Manches-
ter; Nis Hi. ase Aeiees Sta eds feb 5 tae i BE 1635
B. BH. Whitbeck, ’99, Roch-
gute NY, i pccsvesscscecess. 0 510 164
E. P. A.