New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-13
IRE HIRVIRD CREW.
PREPARING FOR THE ANNUAL RACE WITH
VALE


YALE.
lFFoMAN oCCN sI1SAL CORRESPONDENT or THE rRIBuNEl
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April 10.-The boating
season at Harvard fully opened and all the college
crows arc in practice There the four class crews
and the University The class races Will take place
during the part OF this mouth the first Of next
After this which IL tw O-ie one mas taken lace
the Varsity" will the river nearly quito 10 Itself
All lis men have BY this time been &c eced I'D as
signed TO their respective thwsrts Thee are seven
Old men working VARSITY boat In post on they
have occupied IN former years
The several crews took 10 the water about III middle
OF March and after rowing day two, were driven
hack to the svmpl sum by the severe COLI sad the Ice
that 60 ected on the river This however, passed
away the resumed Systematic ana regular WORK.
The steam launch that uaed 10 coach rom Is in read
ness To put the water This not used much unl
after the class races when the coach, Colonel William A.
Bancroft may daily be on its PROV urging his men
on and discipning them up to better form and noro
perfect k in the Of their oars. During the fall Cap
tain Perl did not work his hard a some former
captains have done. Three week we're taken on
the river but were allowed considerable de
gree Of liberty hours Of retiring Diet oc On the
anproach Of Ice on the river orsook their boat
and the boIt-hou.e for the gymnasium. Here they
could be seen in daily practice the hydraulics After
four OF i've hundred strokes pulled they took n
outdoor run of two three miles. They also used ca
chest-wcghts IN the gymnasium according 70 cvou MS
prescribed by the director. Dr.. Sargent. 1.-THE 5cgnn
OF the spring recess the went TO their training table,
and during the four days 1f ntermis@ion from
study were seen on the river twice day. The crew s
composed OF the 70 loving Ind VidualE, whose seating
Will probably he the same ~ given;
Captain Perkins Is rgwing ~ stroke. nc Was
suddenly placed stroke last year this change being
m. 70 only weeks before the Yale race iIeis 10Th
cvol and cleaTEeaded in an emergency -1laluss very
Decessa IN stroke lie was Doth captain ana ssrohe
of hs in his freshman year aud rowed as NO
in with lale aud Columbia dc also rowed at bis
Edmand Arthur stanley Clarke New York, roweh as
No In his year. In - and 80 he pulled as
No ) IL the Yale and Columbia Vsr;it races THIS
year he Is pull the responsible position Of s'rooa
seymour Isaac udgens is working as No. @. He has
had much experience az 90 oarsan ~ elmer cr
the VARSITY boat Besides this he has had no prac-
ce lie not in college last year and therefore was
dong zood nOrkin 81 and 80.
William Woolsey Mumford, OF Rochester, n. V. is on
thUart No > He Is Of the strongest perhaps the
strongest man on an in the boat though MS form
may not he - perfect could DO wished 70 him. per
| board substitute and owing to Csbors sickHess
| a. placed in the boat only few hour.
Been there during the season rhi, fourth boating
year he having rowed ia his freshman year and three
Fred Leland sawyer Of Cumberland, Me- is in his nth
year boating man in H.rv lie ToNed during ni,
varsity" 49, $50 and 80. lie Is now member Of The
law school he /, very powerful and effective man ia
sr.ce He rowed q, stroSe for some time last year.
E1war Everett hamlin, Of R,xOury Mass, pulled a.
aud also as No in tho Freedman Harvari-C Columbia
race at NewIondop. He is now working 40 No. 2 -.
vi liam Gibson Borland, OF New London, Conn, Is one
Of those young men, who upon coming 20 coNeeo
skill and development enough to attain TO place, IN
the VARSITY boat the first year lie captain 81 his
crew freshman year r0WH al No u, ana after the
/ class races &as placed No iu too ava .ity boat.
Jsucs Jackson Storrow. OF Boston. wss No. In hIs
freshman year in the class races and ast year he also
pul ed that thWaTt IN the class races, After then
he was taken into "VsIsity" boat where he WORKED
with credit st No IN both the Yal- aud Columbia races
! lie "a the youngest man IN the present boat
Edwart Potter Lathroo. Of the law school 10 working
with the aud been mid winter but ne "a
| without any experience In race.
! Thomas Handa yde Cabot Of BrO0kln. did good u0rs
! al thwart M. last year IN the freshm IN race
Tho most promisnS candidate for cOxswain IL Charles
Bridge DAVIS OF Lexington Tie IA hui years
| pcreRce IA his capacity In the ciA-s races.
The roi owing table gives tEe keigt. height and ages
| OF the candidates.