New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-29
The crew sat as of present organized two changes
having been made in the past week: ,.

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Mr.. Reed (the bowl, has inst been taken into the
crew. He is not a large man. but it is not large
crew. He is we'll made aud tough, and though he
has had only brief experience, takes hold of row
inc naturally. He will doubtless hold the position
till tbe race and the managers of the are con-
siderably clated ut the manner i'll WHICH he nils II.
Mr. Rarler NO. p is another recent addition.
Tie puled in last years race, and with him Williams
has four of her old crcw,'which is number only
eualed by Dartmouth and Yale. Mr.. Barker ID
another light man, but he is an athlete all over,
being an excellent performer on the trapeze. Ills
arm muscle is the largest think, i'll proportion to
his size. TO be found among the crews lie IS not IN
Grstrate health and only recently got his doctors
nernis,ion to row. He has some faults III rowing,
Int will be undoubtedly valuable man, ana the
crew are exceedingly anxious to keep him. lie Is
from Burlington, VI.
No g. Mr.. Jewctt, is an acquisition Oh this year
aud a most valuable one. He is a Freshman, Is
wears old and it is fortunate thing for Williams
College that she has such man to intrust with her
heating traditions His age, though it might throw
some doubt on taller slender fellow, is no draw
hack 70 broad-loincd big-chested fellow like this
oue lie looks as if he had been selected by Cook
and would be the very man he wants at No. III the
Yale boat This rowing build is not so COM
mon as il will be. 1t is the re-
snit of moderate work long continued
and goes with what phrenologists call the vital
temperament, acquired by healthful life, long
continued and not violent gymnasium exercise.
HAYNES. No. 5 of this crew. ALEC has it, 1t is sort
of mystery to many how man OF Haynes's make
manages to pull SO hard. think accurate measure
ments would show, and the measurements OF last
year do show that his the smallest biceps by an
inch of any man in the race, and his chest has no
muscle at all upon it; yet his breathing power Is
snlendid Lis endurance perfectly adequate and the
choice lies in the opinion of number OF those best
competent to Judge between him and Jewett for
the best man in this boat, Mr.. Jewett hav
inc made himself O frst-class oarsman IN
n remarkably short space OF time. The
arm aud chest most nearly approaching Mr.. Haynes
in size arc those of one or two OF the Wesleyan's
hest men, and of Eager, one of the Dartmoutfs, who
nonnded through their quick stroke last year with
an endurance which astounded the critics. The
truth is the commonest fault is pulling too much
with the arms and too little with the back. These
smaIlarned men use the back, which Is the secret
Another point These three-mile races test mans
enlurauce his vitality, and that depends after all
mon the stomach. These men broad in the hollow
of the back have room for good digestion, as well
"a for the muscles which give hard pull at an oar
Your WASTED city man, with perfect skill and
.varv mower at tho command Of his will, too often
8n,,s on the last half mile that his power IL gone
that ha hss no stomach for IT," az Shakespeare says
In, Jevett u highly organized, with some touch Of