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boat. In addition the thole pins differ
markedly from the American arrangements
OF rowlocks. For these reasons and be-
cause the American stroke is more adapted
to American boats the Yale captain feols
that the British boat is going to throw
Harvard out of the race
1t appeals to the writer that such a state
ment by the Yale captain II he actually did
make II, is unwise In the extreme, For
IT stands to reason that no boat that Har-
ward is going to use win Offset the fact that
Harvard has a multiplicity of extraor-
dinarily good oarsmen and that Yale has
not. II the fact of having a certain kind
OF boat is going TO make all the difference
in lengths OF water which seem to exist
at present In figuring the respective prowess
of the Harvard and Yale crews, then, well
and good. Harvard has been warned in
advance and may now make the best Of
1t. The Cambridge men may not say, at
any event, that Yale was not a generous
rival. Captain Ide has done his best 10
let Harvard know that to support home
industry is to be the winner in the end
The best thing Yale now can do is to make
high tariff on importing rowing boats
and save Harvard in spite of herself in 1908
and succeeding years. The boat will be in
use this yeer anyhow.
What the BOnt T. Like.
OF the new boat Harvard man saws:
THE shell was offered by Walter c. Bay
lies. 81. and is to be delivered in Cam
bridge some time early next summer. Al
though no work has yet been done on the
boat, II is TO be constructed by Sims &
Sons OF Putney, Eng No specifications
whatever have been sent TO the builders
and his orders are to construct shell for
the Harvard varsity eight. The boat will
be put in use on the Charles next fall II
is to be made exactly like the ones that are
/ now In process Of construction by the
builder for the Henley Fights in England
This means that the sliding oarlocks. short
outriggers and the arrangement OF seats
that make the English shell different from
the American viii be tried out at Har-
ward.
Last summer. while the Crimson eight
were training for their races with Cam
bridge university, there was considerable
discussion Of the relative advantages of the
British and American styles OF rowing.
Theoretically the American style is sup
posed to be based upon the style Of the
single sculler. while the Englishmen claim
that their rowing in Fights is very differ
ent from the single scull rowing and as
such deserves a different construction.
THE men in the eight-oared boat sit on
the side away from the outrigger the port
men sitting nearer the starboard side OF
the boat and the starboard men sitting TO
port. This AFFORDS a greater increased lev
erage. The American leverage is prae-
tically the same In the number OF inches.
but with their shorter Outriggers the Eng
lishmen have a greater part OF their oars
swinging over the shell itself This they
claim Affords a irmer purchase on the
water and thus enables them TO keep the
boat steady and on an even keel with much
less effort. on the other hand. the Amer
lean plan is that single line OF backs
offers less resistance 20 the wind than the
double line OF the Bnglishmen-
THE absence OF the swivel r0Wlocks In