'24 CREWS OUT ON RIVER

Warm weather and rain combined to clear the Charles River near the Newell and Weld boathouses yesterday and sent most of the ice down stream, enabling three of the crews to get onto the water for the first time this year. Coach Haines kept the University crews in the tank and on the machines, having decided not to send his men onto the river until the ice cakes had cleared away more. Dr. Howe, however, elected to send his three best eights out for their first practice on open water. The workout was not long, but Dr. Howe expressed himself as eminently satisfied especially with the work of the first inexperienced football men crew. In addition to this eight, the experienced football men and autumn crew men eights were given a chance to show their ability. Coach Howe expects to send out his crews again today, but has not decided how many or which ones to use.