The herald., 1896-06-27
0ARSMEN ABROAD
Regatta Entries CIosed-Yale Men Show Steady
Improvement


The entries do not give the names and
positions of the actual crews and they
will not be posted until four days be-
fore the race.
Leander, however, will in all prob
ability have the following crew: Bow,
w. C. F. Holland; No. 2, H. Graham;
No. 8, E. c. Sherwood: No 4, r. Carr:
No. 5, e. r. Balfour: No 6, Guy Nick
alls; No. {, T. E. Stretch; stroke, H. G..
Gold.
The members of the Leander crew are
Oxford men, and Sherwood, Carr, Bal
four and Gold were members of this
years oxford crew. Gold was stroke
for the dark blue eight, which beat Cam
bridge after such hard fight this year,
and he was a member of the Eton crew
which made such fine showing at Hen
ley last year. He is considered to be
wonderful stroke.
For the diamond sculls, the Hon. Ru-
pert Guinness, the holder of the trophy:
DIR. c. NJ. Mcdowell Of Chicago, Hon.
Arthur Guinness, Vivian Nickalls, r. K.
beaumont. F. Beddington r. p. Black
staff, J. ]. Bluise, J. e. Joicey, ]. T..
Mohr, S. S. Mann and e. A. Thomp-
son of Montreal are entered. The total
number of entries is 1ifty-eight, one
greater than the number entered in 1893.
which up to the present was record year.
YALE STILL IMPROVES.
HENLEY EY-ON-THAMES, June 2e.-
Yale was on the water at 10: :15 this morn
ing and went down the river around
Regatta Island and then rowed over the
course in minutes 16 seconds. The first
quarter was made in 1 minute Is seconds.
and the half in minutes seconds. The
first half minute the stroke was "a and
for the balance of the spin the stroke
was 20 to the minute. This is a much
better performance than that of yes
terday. From first to last the boat ran
well and the men were all in fine condi-
ton. In spite of this, however, Bob"
Cook is by no means satisfied. The crew
went to their quarters Immediately after
the trial.
Trinity Hall went over the course in
Z minutes Is seconds with stroke vary
ing from Sc to 81 They did the first half
in minutes 30 seconds and the last in
slower time. Trinity Hall, as was the
case with the Yale crew. had quite a
strong wind astern, but the conditions
favored the Trinity men owing to the
thwart rigging of the seats.
Leander did the first half in 8 minutes
221a seconds, with a tame 3S stroke which
was dropped to 35 at the end.
Trinity first went over the last half
Of the course 80 seconds slower that the
first half, which was done in minutes
SO seconds.
New College was out but did not try
to make time. The crew has been a long
time in training and they are not work.
ing hard now.
Mr.. Mcdowell, the oarsman, from Chi
cago, who is entered for the diamond
sculls, says he never felt better than
he does today. He is just beginning to
get used to the course and is working
hard, although not trying to make fast
time. The American oarsman is quite
confident of winning in spite of the fact
that he had not seen the Hon. Rupert
Guinness, the holder of the diamond sculls,
and has not been able to compare his
style with that of the crack English
scullers. The English critics, however,
do not think Mr.. Mcdowell has chance
of winning.
They say he rows entirely with his legs
and arms and has very little backswing.
However, they admit that he handles
his boat very we'll in spite of his collis-
ion with one of the posts marking the
course, which is not an infrequent oc-
currence. The collision broke the rim
of the cockpit of the doctors shell, but
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the damage has already been repaired.
Bob" Cook realised the slides of all the
seats in the Yale boat before this morn
ing's practice and this, it is said, may
account for the better work done.
Yale was out during the afternon on
the Upper Thames in Labat's launch
which will be used during the regatta
by the referee. The weather was fine
and there was no wind. On shore there
were groups of brightly dressed horse
men and runners who followed the crews
on the towpath. Yale went out at 5:45
and pulled down and around Temple
Island. New College was out during
the afternoon and practiced starts. The
crew managed to elude the crowds OF
ttime-takers by rowing over the last
half instead of the first half of the course
Leander, New College, Trinity Hall and
the FIRST Trinity are now credited to be
the most formidable crews.
Bob Cook says that Yale is going to
meet the best crews in the world, and
he does not know which of the lot is the
best. The Yale boys, however. favor
Leander with New College pretty close
to the latter in point of speed and time.
Leander did not do any time rowing
this afternoon.
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