The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-13
HARVARD,s DEPARTURE.
The Result of the English Coaching
VIII be Watched With Interest.


The form and speed of this seasons
Harvard crew will have more interest
for the college world than the qualities
OF any eight the Crimson ever placed on
the water, in consequence of the shap-
ing work of the English coach, r. c.
Lehman. Will Harvard's long sue
cession of aquatic reverses be broken?
Or will Cook, of Yale, or Courtney, OF
Cornell, add one more to the conquests
of the oarsmen of the Charles? These
are questions which the entire college
world is asking.
Mr.. Lehman will undoubtedly show
good results. He went to Cambridge
and from the first moment has enjoyed
complete sway over as fine material
as a coach could ask. Harvard men,
generally far from unanimous in the
shaping of any athletic aggregation to
wear their colOrs, have given Mr.. Leh-
mann nothing but encouragement and
support, and the public is justified in
looking for a Harvard crew which
which will show unusual form anG
speed.
When Mr. Lehman returned from
his visit to England on March 10, ne
continued his experiments with the can
didates. He found that Edgar Wright
ingtOn, last years football captain, had
been prevailed to try for the crew,
-
and ]. D. Moulton, the end rush in the
football team, had been added to the
squad. One days rowing convinced
Mr.. Lehman that Bull was not the
man for stroke, and the next day ]. f.
Perkins was tried. Perkins set long,
powerful stroke, and was q great inn
provement over Bull Bull was put in
at No. 2. but even there he did not seem
TO satisfy Mr.. Lehman. He is well
built, powerful chap, sandy and
''scrappy" to a degree, but he failed
to improve and seemed not to be able
to learn the finer points Of the stroke.
MoultOn, also, after a long trial. was
sent back to his class crew, as was
Marvin. Boardman followed them a
week later.
The authorities now announced thar
the varsity crew was made up for the
Poughkeepsie race. About two weeks
before the class races Mr.. Imam
surprised everybody by takins Stanley
HOLSTER out Of the varsity boat and
sending him to the senior crew Hol-
lister had cOwed on the varsity at No.
for two years past, and was looked
upon as sure of his place. Moulton
was tried for a day or two, but failed
TO come up to expectations, and B. H.
Whitbeck was taken from the sopho-
more class crew to replace him. Or
May 6 the annual class races were
rowed, and the sophomore Class crew
won easily under unfaVOrable circum-
stances. The feature of the races was
the good work Of Boardman, the sopho-
more stroke
THE NEW STROKE.
A few days later Mr. Lehman cleo
trified everybody by replacing J. F.
Perkins at stroke with Boardnan Per-
kins set long, powerful stroke. but
was unable to raise it any higher than
twenty-eight minute. Boardman
was regarded as the best two-mile
stroke in college, but YVES said to lack
endurance. After the race of the trial
eight last fall he was completely ex-
hausted, and it was for this reason
that he was not selected for varsity
stroke in the fall When Mr. T. c.
StCrrow was coaching the sophomore
crew this spring he found out that
Boardman was trying to row the whole
boat in ADDITION TO stroking the crew
n little coaching cured him Of this fault
and he stood the class races as well as
any man in the boat. Marvin also was
taken from the sophomore boat and
placed at bow on the varsity. Wright.
ington went in at No. 3. displacine
Wnitheck. Recently the crew has hat
several four-mile trials In these test.
the crew showed that the right combi
nation had at last been reached The
personal statistics Of the crew are q!
follows:
u. A. Boardman, 80, Of Boston, i:
the stroke Of the crew. He prepared fol
college in Boston, and had stroked the
Junior crew Of the B. A. A. one year
before coming to college. He ha!
stroked the SO class crew, which ha.
won the class races the past two years
since he came TO college. He is fiv.
feet ten and half inches high weighs
154 pounds, and is twenty years old
No. l is .. NJ. Goodrich, '9S, TIL,
captain Of the crew He comes from
Akron, o. He entered college from st
Paups school, where he rowed on TIL
Ifalcyon crew. IIe rowed No. Z on tn
freshman crew, and last year stroket
tile varsity crew at Poughkeepsie II
is SIX feet one inch high. weighs II
pounds, and ;e twenty years old.
]. Z. Perkins, 80 who e now rowin,
20. 6. comes from the celebrated Per
kins family, o. Newton, which has fur
nished so many Hayward rowing men
He entered college fron? the Newtol
academy, ant rowed on his freshman
crew last year. lie never rowed til
he came TO college. lie is @ graceful
ard powerful oar. He is six feet high
weighs 169 pounds, ard is ninetec1
years old.
J. H. Perkins. SO, no. 5, rows just be