NAVY CREW WELL PREPARED

Except for the loss by illness of McKee, one of the veteran members of the crew, the preliminary season at Annapolis has been as successful as possible, considering the disadvantages under which the cadets are placed in athletics. The crew commenced its out-door training early and is well advanced for this season of the year. Because of faculty restrictions the annual Yale-Annapolis race had to be omitted this spring, and for the same reason the navy will be prevented from entering the Poughkeepsie regatta in June. These conditions make the Harvard race of unusual importance to the cadets, and this interest, coupled with the fact that their crew is better prepared than Harvard to row a two-mile race, gives them at least an even chance of winning on the twenty-second.

The two-mile course on the Severn runs from northwest to southeast, and is about four miles up from the mouth of the river. High land on both sides makes it a very smooth course in ordinary winds.

Of the Navy crew, Captain Rockwell and Leighton are the only men who rowed in the Poughkeepsie regatta last June. Leighton has been out of the boat for some time on account of an injury to his hand which he sustained while on duty in one of the ship drills, but has recovered sufficiently to row in the race next Wednesday. The position of stroke, made vacant by the loss of Ingram who was perhaps the greatest factor in the success of the crew last year, has been the most difficult to fill. Kinkaid, the new stroke, is big and powerful, but lacks experience, as he has never stroked before. The other men in the boat have almost all been developed from last year's second crew.

Annapolis will row in the race in the same order that it has had in practice for some weeks. The following list gives the order and weights of the men, the average age being 20 years, 4 months, and the average weight being 166 1-2 pounds, which is considerably less than the Harvard eight. Stroke, Kinkaid, 160; 7, Leighton, 179; 6, Rockwell (capt.), 173; 5, Richardson, 160; 4, Bagg, 163; 3, Magruder, 173; 2, Ainsworth, 160; bow, Davis, 164; cox., Roberts, 112.