The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-22
VARSITY COVERS
 FAST TWO MILES
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 about all there is to know about hand.
 ling the rudder ropes over Thame:
 river course.
 The freshman eight was not timed
 this forenoon over the full course. but
 one-half mile was taken and given out
 as 2 minutes 31 seconds, the distance
 being rowed against stiff head wind
 Tonight the freshman eight was tried out over two miles of the course. the
 time being taken from the midway flag
 a. the navy yard to the usual starting
 flag at Bartlett's.
 1 The wind was favorable to the shell
 although It was not nearly so strong as
 earlier in the day The tide was almost
 a. flood and was almoet neutral. The time announced was Il minutes 34 sec 1 ords The stroke was kept very even i lv at S2 all the way So far as finished
 blade work goes, the crew is smaal and
 look well, the water was quite calm, af-
 fording every opportunity for good 1 oarsmanship. The shell spaces out well
 and the men go with swing which be-
 tokens confidence and plenty of reserve power.
 The varsity eight have only one piece of interesting information to di- vulse tonight, that is that the shell cover one mile in the course-the mile which Is conceded 10 be the slowest on the rlver-the time taken on the launch and announced officially being 4 min utes and A seconds. This is "going some and the advisory coach, Julian w Curtlss who arrived Thursday night at Broadvlew, stated humorously that the newspaper men would have to be careful they didn't get an Ii stuck into it.
 Tonight the varsity eight was taken out, but not against time The crew rowed from the boat house 10 the two mile flag; turning back they rowed up to the finish flag with a stop at the mile flag. The crew pulled steady stroke of about 30 all the way. The crew looks well and gave a pretty ex- hibition of oarsmanship. In fact re- mark was heard on the river made by one gentleman who occupied large launch that he had not seen as fine rowing for many years. The two vet erens Stroke Boulton and Captain Ide at No, [, are pulling like Trojans and the newer men in the shall are inspired bv their confidence, and there Is a unity in their work which will prove an im- portant factor in the race next Thurs day.
 Whether Mir. Kennedy will adhere to his idea of not going over the four miles again or not Is a problem which will be largely solved by weather con- ditlons. There is no need of the trial in order to keep the men in shape, as the daily practice will take care of that. The four successive trials of last week showed that every man In the shell was reliable and could be depend ed upon to furnish all the power which c6 uld be demanded. Still MT. Kennedy may decide to put the eight over the full distance Saturday evening, espec- tally if the conditions appear favor able.
 All the changing to be done in the makeup of the crews has been done and the men will row Thursday as they rowed tonight unless some unforeseen compels a change
 Julian W. Curtlss paid visit to liar yard quarters at Red Top Friday after ! noon and invited Mir Perkins of the | Harvard rowing association to witness p 1Nrno ot Ha Io, S,.A. m Yale Mir Perkins accepted the invita- ton to see the blue oarsmen at work but preferred to look on from a single { shell. Mir Perkins returned the com- :, pliment by inviting Mir. Curtiss and George St. John Sheffield to come aboard the John Harvard and see Harvard row. These interchanges of will serve to show the pub- lie that neither university has any with the rowing is open and above board and done in the interests of clean honest sport.
 The practice this evening was watch ed by party of guests on the Yale aunch, Among those aboard were B. Hough, who arrived at quarters in the afternoon, MT. Dixon father. of man. lger Theodore Dixon. Horace Kill oourn and MT. Jensen, both 'O7 men, md party from steam yacht Chris abel, owned by Walton Ferguson of Stamford. Those from the yacht were Walton Ferguson and his son Alfred, Alfred Dater (an old Yale oar), John ioetchius, also former Yale oarsman md Fred Pitts of Stamford. The yacht came up the Thames Fri lay evening in command of Captain