The Yale Crew.

Having published an article upon our own university crew, we now supplement it by a description of the crew which our rivals will put upon the water this season. We are indebted to an article which recently appeared to an article which recently appeared in the News for the following account of the men who will probably obtain seats in the Yale boat. Thirteen men are now in training for the crew, including all but the of three men who rowed in last year's race. The three vacant slides are those of Scott, No. 7; parrott, No. 6 and peters, No. 5. It is improbable that any of these men will row. This leaves three places to be filled, though in all probability some of the old men will move farther down the boat, and the new men will have to occupy the seats vacated. There are several promising men among the candidates who offered themselves on Saturday, that is to say, they are strong well made, and possess the necessary weight. As to the most important point to be considered-namely their determination to win-it is fruitless, at this early stage, to make any predictions. Very few of the men have had any valuable coaching and they will have to be taught the science of rowing from the beginning. This will compel the old men to go over much that they have learned before.

The following is a summary of the men with mention of the experience they have had:

Appleton, '86, substitute on the University and stroke on his class crew.

Bolton, '86, S., member of class crew.

Blakeslee, member of class crew.

Caldwell, '87, member of class crew.

Dodge, '85, substitute on the University and member of his class crew.

Hamlin, '87, S., member of class crew.

Hartridge, '87, member of class crew.

Kellogg, '86, S., rowed last fall.

Mathiessen, '86, S., member of his Freshman Crew.

Patten, '87, S., rowed last fall.

Rogers, '87, member of class crew.

Vernon, '86, member of class crew.

Verplanck, '88, member of class crew.

It is a notable fact that the four heaviest men have had no experience worth mentioning in boating, whereas those who have had the most experience are of lighter build. There is nothing in this fact, however, to indicate that the crew for this year will be light, as all the men will have sufficient opportunity for acquiring the necessary skill before the crew is chosen. All things considered, it is more than probable that this year's crew will be heavier than that of last year. The men who rowed last year are heavier than they were then, and most of the candidates are fully as heavy as the men who occupied the positions now vacant.

From now until the spring vacation the men will run out in the open air and work in the gymnasium for about two hours a day. They will not go to a training table until the Easter vacation; but will, of course, strictly observe the rules of training in the interim. The hydrometers at the Gymnasium are being put in order, and some little time will be spent on them every day, in order to accustom the men to the handling of an oar and the swing of the body. The whole system of training will be as nearly like that followed last year as possible, and if the men work as faithfully as the '84 crew did, there is no reason to suppose that the crew will be inferior.

There will be no competition for the position of Coxswain. L. E. Caldwell, who filled the position so entirely to the satisfaction of everybody last year, is back in '86, S. S. S. and may be counted on to occupy the position again. Though heavier than he was last spring by fully five pounds, he is not yet corpulent enough to be able to say that he is half as heavy as the lightest man on the crew.

The chief difficulty to be met is in the selection of a coach. He will doubtlessly be an undergraduate, simply because it is impossible to find a graduate who could find it convement to act as coach. Even among the undergraduates it will be difficult to find a suitable man, as all the men who have the adequate knowledge will try for the crew. It cannot be expected that Mr. Cook will devote the time to coaching that he did last year, nor that Mr. Hull will do it. Altogether the outlook in this direction is far from encouraging.