New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-14
TIE YALE CREW.

No ), julian Kennedy ................ % 16J
Stroke r. J Coo ss-.-............. 20 Ios
Most of these men are well known. The bow, Mr..
BrowncIl, was starboard stroke of the " nning
Freshman crew at Springfield in 1873. and pulled
bow in ;he University six at Saratoga last Summer.
He occupied the same position in his class crew IN
the Fall Of S7i. lie from East HaG.!au and
il n Senior in tre Scientific School. For man of
J feet o inches he has very large chest measuring
i2'2 inches.
Mr. Chandler No. ., is Freshman and new man
entirely Ills first effort in boating as captain
and stroke of his class crew in the College races last
month He comes from Woodstock, Conn, stands
D feet inches high aud is large ill., all his ineas'ire-
mcnts.
Mr.. KELLOGG No. 3, held the same position last
year. He has filled up his muscles and looks harder
and better than he did last year. He pulls better
and his eye snaps with the grit and determine
ton. lie has always pulled in the sane place. lie
was No. 9 in the winning Freshman at Spring
field in 1873 aid in the University ever since. He
comes from Spuyten Duyyl and is Junior. six feet
high and tough as string
No. !, Mr.. Fowler, WAS taken of the University
crew last year only day before the race Tie Is
from Lena H.. 4 Sophomore, ) feet II inches ia
hight. and large in all his measurements.
Mr. Kennedy No. ,, is Cooks right-hand man. He
pulled in the winning University boat at Springfield
in 1873 as No. D. and i'll the place at Sara
toc In his class crew on saltonstall in the Fall OF
1874 he held the place, and last Fall he pnlied
q single scull the lake, winning, as he did lat
week i'll a similar race, which chose him as iales
single scull representative at Saratoga this year. lie
has pulled in losing boat only once-at Saratoga.
Mr. Kennedy is stalwart man u feet higb, with
i3-iuch chest lie is formed throughout Cooks
system, and is a splendid oarsman This Is his last
year. however, as he is Senior in the Scientific
school.
summary of his record is Ill that needs to he said
about Cook, captain and stroke of TIL, crew. His
first appearance was in scrub Freshman crew IN
the h!rbor in 1872 lie pulled in his class af-
terward and was starboaTd waist in the University
cIew which came in Last 81 Springfield IN 1s72 This
set him to thinking, and the result was trip to En-
gland where he learned the so-caed Eniisi stroke,
now we'll known in this country as the yale
stroke Tie pulled stroke in the regatta at Spring
field in 1873, AMI that race. He afcrward won
the Southworth cup on Saltonsta lake in II 29ii,
pulling also in his class shell. At Saratoga in 1871
he was stroke and captain OF the Yale that WAS
thrown out a foul
The diet Of thi; crew, like that Of most Of the
Others this year. is generous one, pork, veal and
pastry being excluded with toba,co OF course. Ale
they driuk according to taste. Daring the cold
weather the exercised in the gymnasium mt the
rowing weights and by running, walking, &C.
Since the advent of warm weather the custom has
been for them to take sh RI walk before breakfast
spend part of the forenoon in pair-oar practice and
a short pull together ia the harbor, and longer pull
together between 5:;}0 ana p.
Such is the showing of ale. and when considers
that Dartmouth which has four Of her old crew, and
Harvard. We.leyan, and Williams. which have
three have all lost their strokes and captains That
Cornell has four green men. and Princeton and Col
umbia five each that Brown, Amherst, Hamilton
Union, and Bowdoin enter with entirely new crews
and Trinity does not enter at ALL it seems that the
probabiliti,s are more IN favor OF Yale thaa they
last year
A CRITICAL VIEW.
The loss OF Mr. Wood who pulled 20. Q, is
that it il almost impossible to retrieve, for he was
the pink and perfection OF OarsneB. Besides hav-
ing remarkable symmetry and perfect health,
Inc was one of Cooks veterans. pulling the
stroke which won at Springfield in 1875,
and yony through the entire campaign of Last year
with great credit up 10 its disastrous end. lie had
become n most graceful and skillinl oarsinan, and
had pulled with Cook and Kennedy and Kellogg
and Brownell till they had attained to wonderful
uniformity as body. With him Cook might have
made up tie identical lie had laot year.
which would have been luck extraordinary. The
manner of the accident which prevented this was
singular as wei as tXaSlPfdt'hSt W Noou 'ihi jill coH-
cerned. Going down hill at great speed on sled.
he seercd too close TO a vehieie and struck the
front of his inst"p against the tire Of the wheel.
The leg broke half way up to the knee tore through
hcsh drawers, and pantsloons, and the bare broken
bone stuck out several inches. Great health
has pulled ,fr. Wood through, so that he writes
Cook to-day that he has shot his erutcbes7
aud walks with a cane, but the Regatta fear will
not again see Of its hest oarsinan. Without him
Yale has still the strongest organization which re-
mains over from last year. In the trst place, the
theory and stroke remain unchanged. Harvard has
come 10 Cook, and Dartmouth las moved toward
him m the matter of stroke and diet, bnt Cook
tinues inst as he began three years ago. Then for
en we fnd in the stern Of the boat, Cook himself,
and Kennedy, another veteran not To be matched.
Next but one Kellogg. who las shaken into capital
form, after his drl In last years crew, is at
No. 9, and Brownell, another veteran. holds his
watcl,-tower ia the bow. Various positive allega-
cations have been made % TO those who Will pull
Nos. 2 and ! but the fact il, it is not settled.
Chandler a new freshman. is pulling No. at pres
ent and Fowler who trained last year in the crew,
but did not pull in the race, is ut No. 4. Chand-
Ter is a 6rst-rate man. and think Cook in time
will bring him up to his standard, which is all that
car be desired. At present he is not pulling hard.
finding it all he can do ~ keep the stroke 80 for
ward and back and feather in time without putting
on much strength. lie also tiInid about going for
ward, hesifating to throw his shoulders into the
stroke but he is q man Of splendid strength and
build, d Ia Cook, with tremendous thigh and loins,
and when he gets little further tho science. I
tI,;nL ba mt mt GREAT sfreupth and nut IL In