New-York tribune., 1905-06-25

-, 3,a Harvard oarsTnen who lived there five
or six years ago. The house itself Is Tar apoNe
the river level. and, perched. on q nil At liie
bend of the river, commands a view Oh elie
nicturesoue stream from Newburg on the soutH
TO a peint far beyond Hyde Park on the north
The house is roomy, with pleasant surround
ings-
little after in the morning the men rise
Soon after they have breakfast. consisting Of
fruit oatmeal, steaks. chops, bread. rolls, eggs,
potatoes and coffee in quantities that would
appal even the ordinary college man, for the
oarsrlan who rows ten miles day in q college
crew has no ordinary appetite After breakfast
the men do nothing but digest for an hour or
two They lie around the lawns under the
trees, read, talk play quoits. Around 10
o'clock the boys Chamber down the hill to the
boathouse and there they get undressed and
into their scant rowing togs. which consist only
of short TRUNKS and thick stockings.
Undressed the men show their fine physical
condition. There is surplus flesh them;
II ali fat has been removed by many hard row.
n They al muscle. and muscle of supple
kind-wiry, and not standing out like the IRON
bound muscle Of the professional strong man.
The skin is soft and velvety. but it has not the
proverbial pink Of perfect health for the men
tanned nuttrown by exposure to the sun.
wind and rains for, sun storm, the water
Qc4AillllA46, TIC HIGH Ie-h0 llitlI pIdCllSS-
Borne aloft over their heads, the varsity
crew first carry the long, frail, toothpck shell
Eingerly to the float, for it is easily smashed.
After a few commands from the ccxswain the
step into the shell. Ready Row.. says
cookie" and the boat shoots away from the
float
The freshman eight soon follows. and then.
last of all, that his charges are safely on
the water comes Jasper Goodwin, the Columbia
coach, the launch Columbia At his mouth
is q huge megaphone. from which he is to issue
his commands. now pleading peremptory.
At length the start Of the four-mile course is
reached and the two shells turn about, the
boats ready for their pull down the river.
Ready" comes the coxswain's question: then
moment later. the sixteen 1.-THE bodies all
a-Quiver. lean forward TO the full reach, comes
the order, Row" Sixteen oars catch the water
and the shell. like live thing darts ahead and
the race begins for the distant goal. four miles
away beyond the far of bridge. The varsity
pulls long, sweeping stroke of perhaps twenty
seven twenty-eight TO the minute while the
freshmen. whose distance Is only two miles
row higher pace in their effort to beat the
varsity.
Close behind the two hard-puliing eights
comes the launch. with Goodwin, a picturesque
figure. megaphone TO mouth, yelling instruc-
highest possible perfection TO do honor TO their
alma mater in their coming regatta Don't
swing out OF the boat" Get your back IN the
stroke" Don't chop off the stroke" Keen
your eyes in the boat" IF you don't row better,
Blank, you'll have to get out OF the boat" So
runs his fire OF coaching all the way down tina
course. At the mile and a half mark tho
freshmen begin to spring, and the varsity cox
swain at once orders his stroke a bit higher, In
order to offset the freshman spurt Stroke
Fraser sends the pace to thirty-two, and ct this
higher gait tho freshman shen seems TO halt N
II by magic, and the senior eight, In long swssp-
Ing giides, clearing puddles" beautifully, spins
away from the fast receding freshmen, while
the coxswaip grins pleasantly st the stroke.
TO the bad. and they drop out, the varsity con-
tinuias alone TO finish its heartbreakine four
mile pull.
When the frrt two miles gonA any easy
eir OF indifference nonchalance that tho crew
may have hac at the start has vanished; the
play OF the game has gone and strenuous work
that taxes a mans vitality and endurance re-
Places 1t Back and forth swing the bodies,
Gnstening a. the beats down on perspirinS
pores; the oars clutch the water IN 6 grip thai
Keeps The boat racing Eraoefully down tho river.
0aas small boys On the shore y4u and launches