SECONDARY ROWING

The second class crew races yesterday afternoon emphasize again the success of the secondary rowing system which has been developed during the past few years When Mr. Lehmann came to Cambridge nearly ten years ago to coach the crew, he realized the unusual opportunities to make rowing a general and popular sport at Harvard. The interest that he aroused in club, class and scrub rowing has continued to grow, with one or two setbacks, until two years ago when the dormitory races brought out more men than even Mr. Lehmann could have hoped for. That this burst of enthusiasm for rowing was more than temporary has been amply proved by the number of crews which have practiced on the river this year. Men with no prospect of making even class crews and, what is better, the kind of men who were classed as "bleacher athletes," have found their place in our athletic world.

To be brief, our rowing system is one to be proud of. We doubt whether any other American college can boast of an interest in the sport even proportionately as large. With the completion of the new Weld boathouse our material equipment will be enlarged and although commodious and faultless apparatus alone will not make Harvard the leader in college rowing, the enthusiasm for the sport is too apparent to mean anything but eventual success and leadership.