St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-04-12

weights being as follows: Langford,
176; Treadway, 173; Longacre, 1872; Bal
ley, 1T; Rodgers 1879; Beard, 1884,;
Brown, III; Rogers, 1877. From these
weights it will be seen that three Of
the eight men weigh over 1870, while
four others are over 40, the lightest
man of the eight weighing 1877 pounds,
which is about two pounds less than
the average weight of Yale's crews of
past years.
The presence of so many big men
in the Yale boat is easily explained
when one looks at the weights Of the
Oxford and Cambridge crews of this
year. Of course, as has already been
said, Yale is not going to meet either
one of these incidental Fights, but the
Oxford and Cambridge crews are
nevertheless, typical English crews,
and just such Fights as Yale will
meet at Henley. There was only an
eighth of a pound difference in the av-
erages of the Oxford and Cambridge
boats this year, oxford averaging 1T
and Cambridge 177h.
SOME BIG MEN.
Oxford had two men in her boat who
weighed over 100, and her bow and
stroke men. w.s.69 r T7yl9 ,n1 il.Ir.vp r IN
the boat, weighed 15s each. The
weights rose toward the center Of the
boat as follows: No. weighed III;
No. 2, 172; No. g. 17S; No. 3, 1870; No. 5,
100, and No. 4, 191. In the Cambridge
boat the same uniformity of weight
was observed, although not with such
nicely as in the Oxford boat. Cam
bridge bow, who was her lightest
man, weighed 1855, while her stroke
weighed ITO. No. also weighed ITO;
No. 2, IT'S; No. 6, 1876; No. 8, IVA; No. s,
$50, and No. 4, $50. Yales weights in
the present arrangement of her men
are by no means so uniform, but her
average weight, strange to say, is
within few ounces of that Of the OK
ford and Cambridge Fights, Yale's be-
ing 177h. The big men in the Yale
she'll are in the center Of the boat, but
the heavy weight Of Langford, at
stroke, in measure distorts the pro-
portions Of the shell from stroke to
bow. This arrangement Of weights,
however, is not an infiexible rule, and,
in fact, such an evenly balanced crew
as the varsity this year is rarely
found, the one point Of the arrange
ment of the weights which is always
sought for being to balance the boat
evenly. This has been accomplished
in the Yale shell this year by the
present arrangement Of the men
There is no doubt that Mr.. Cook,
in selecting Yale's oarsmen, kept well
in mind the fact that they will have
to meet heavy crews in England and
to be prepared for great endurance in
the race. He consequently looked out
for brawny and muscular men. Such
type Of oarsmen always have the adj
vantage over lighter men, who, under
severe training, are always liable to
get overturned and who, in shifting
from one country to another, as the
Yale eight will have to do. would be
more likely to suffer from the change
of climate and diet. The big men in
an eight-oared shell are Of course
harder to train and to get into perfect
rowing form, but when they do attain
a good condition are of course capa-
BILE of just so much more power than
lighter men. This has been demon
strated in the very best crews which
Yale has ever produced, namely in the
Fights Of 1888, 1890 and 1895, all Of
which were unusually heavy and unu-
sually fast.