Trial of New University Shell

The new shell designed for the University crew by Mr. Clinton H. Crane was tried for the first time yesterday afternoon. The boat is finer at the bow, wider in the stern, and much more shallow than those built on the old model. The shell is not expected to have extraordinary speed. But it was calculated that if the lines could be made some-what finer without rendering the boat correspondingly unsteady an increase of speed amounting to a couple of seconds in the mile would result. In yesterday's trial the boat appeared to be very steady. Although it is fully twenty pounds lighter than the racing shell now being used the decrease in weight has not been attained by the sacrifice of necessary braces, as was the case with the aluminum boat tried last year. The chief objection to the boat is that it is too large for the present crew, a fault which might prove of great disadvantage if the race should be rowed against a head wind.