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the English shell is also a great point Of
difference from the American made boat.
The English oar has at least three inches
play in the rowlock. Each time that the
oars are taken out of the water the button
Of the Englishman's oar slides down the
rowlock with a 'ker-chunk that sounds
extremely odd to the unaccustomed hearer.
The American oar is fastened in the row.
lock, 30 that It has no play whatever, and
when we'll CREASED makes little or no noise.
on the other hand, the British claim that
the very sound Of the oars sliding down
the rowlocks gives a beat and rhythm to
the stroke that is impossible in a boat
equipped with the close fitting rowlocks.
They claim that the sound helps the crew TO
keep together in the stroke and for that
reason is of considerable advantage"
some New England Rows.
The situation created between Dart
mouth and Brown after the recent default
ing by Dartmouth of the base BAH game
at Providence calls attention to the some
what unneighborly attitude OF most of the
New England colleges. They seem TO be a
disputatious lot. the New England col
legians, and nowadays there are few Of
them but are not on speaking terms with
Brown broke of relations with Dart
mouth after the Hanoverians walked of
the base ball field that day. II is prac-
tically impossible to judge OF the merits Of
the controversy, but II. as stated. the base
ball juggled by one of the Dartmouth play
ers struck Brown player running between
bases after another Brown man had scored
on the misplay the umpire seems to have
been deciding strictly on the common sense
merits of the play when he permitted the
run to tally and the man who. technically
speaking, interfered with the ball to be
declared out. If, however, II was di-
rectly batted ball which struck the Brown
runner there is No question that he was
out and that the player who had crossed
the plate should be ordered back 70 his
base.
The moment a batted ball touches a
player OF the opposing side II ceases to be
batted ball and becomes felded ball
Under those conditions a felded ball bound
ing against a Brown player was interfered
with and the umpire was right In doing
what he did Seeing that in the interval
the Dartmouth athletic authorities have
been inclined TO take Captain Skillln TO
task for leaving the field. possibly at Han
over they have swung around 10 the view
point that the umpire was right.
Dartmouth soon win be the great I'M
friendly college II this sort OF thing keeps
up. The basket ball row OF last fail be-
tween Williams and Dartmouth cut the
Hanoverians on the Williams visiting list
too. That was caused by night between
Lang. the Dartmouth center. and Waters,
who played that position 20 the Williams
team. Waters was struck to the floor and
the Williams students Captain Grevenstein
OF Dartmouth said, rushed out 10 attack
his man Dartmouth waited for two weeks
for an apology for that, the story goes.
and then formally said good-by forever.
However. Dartmouth needs Williams and
probably will not remain estranged as long
as forever.
Brown and Holy Cross haven't had much
10 do with each other recently. There was
a time when they met, but GOODNESS arose
over some baseball dates. In the last re
corded game OF base bah between the two