'VARSITY CREW NEWS.

Yesterday Mr. Mumford coached the University crew in the tank. Bull's sprained wrist was enough better to allow him to row in his old place at stroke, but J. F. Perkins is still ill and on account of the scarcity of port oars no one rowed at two. A new set of oars for the tank arrived yesterday from Shaw, and tomorrow the whole crew will row together again.

This will probably be the last regular rowing in the tank as the float at the boat house will be out on Monday and the crew will go on the water, if the weather permits, the early part of next week. The drudgery of the tank work has been lighter than usual this year, but a change to the river is welcomed. The water in the tank is heavy and has had a tendency to make the men slow in their work. To counteract this the crew has taken a system of light quick exercises with sharp runs out of doors in connection with the other more heavy work.

The faults of the crew are partly due to the tank and are made more apparent by the extremely slow stroke they have been rowing. Most of the men swing back too far and pull out of the water at the finish. They are slow in getting their hands away and are apt to be careless about time. A considerable improvement has been made of late in getting the oars down to the catch and in turning back from the recover without pause, and the men are also controlling their slides more evenly. Mr. Storrow and Mr. Mumford will continue to coach until Mr. Lehman's arrival in the early par of next month.

The crew is to have two new shells this year; one is being built by Clasper at Cambridge, England, and is expected here on the fifteenth of March. The other boat will be built in this country. The builder will be decided upon in a few days when the bids now coming in have been considered. Davy has been given an order for a new barge to be ready by the 17th of next month. Both shells are to be of cedar, and all three boats will be English-rigged with the exception of the cross-seating.

The weights of the crew were taken yesterday and are as follows:

Stroke, Bull, 168 1-2

Stroke, Boardman, 165 1-2

7 Goodrich, 175

7 Moulton, 172

6 Thomson, 175

5 J. H. Perkins, 186 1-2

4 Sprague, 187

3 Hollister, 177

2 J. F. Perkins, 172

Bow, Marvin, 161