FOUR CREWS COMPRISE LEADER'S FIRST SQUAD

Rowing is progressing rapidly at Yale this year, with Coach Leader supervising personally the four boats which comprise the first squad at present. Lineups thus far are tentative, although practically every experienced oarsman except the veteran Prudhomme is included in one of the first two boats.

For over a week the Yale oarsmen were deprived of the services of their famous mentor, owing to the death of Mrs. Leader. During his absence, Coaches Murphy and Moore took charge of the workouts, and it was under their observation that the first 1925 Eli crew rowed in a shell in the New Haven harbor.

Richard Pocock, the boat builder whom Coach Leader brought with him from Washington, and brother of the Seattle boat constructor from whom the Crimson shells were purchased, built a barge similar to the Leviathan, seating 16 oarsmen. The Eli barge has been christened the Cleopatra and while designed primarily for inexperienced candidates, it has been used frequently by the first squad with very satisfactory results.

A. D. Lindley, stroke of Yale's brilliant eights of the past two years, returned to the rowing squad last Friday, and has been rowing at seat four in the second boat. Lindley was a substitute defense player on the championship Eli hockey sextet, and following the strenuous ice season he took a short rest before beginning the long training grind which will carry him through the Harvard race at New London on June 19.

L. R. Stoddard '26, who was coxswain of the crew last year, has been prevented from reporting thus far. Stoddard is a member of another championship Yale swimming team. S. C. White '25 has held the first coxswain assignment during the last three weeks.

The Yale crews rowed yesterday as follows:

First Crew--Bow, A. H. Peterson '26; No. 2, J. L. Bunce '27; No. 3, Captain A. M. Wilson '25; No. 4, A. M. Quarrier '26; No. 5 J. D. Warren '27; No. 6. H. B. Kingsbury '26; No. 7, B. M. Spock '25; stroke, H. C. Potter '26; coxswain, S. C. White '25.

Second Crew Bow, E. P. Isham '25; No. 2, E. Callendar '27; No. 3, F. F. Russell '26; No. 4, A. D. Lindley '25; No. 5, W. M. Veths '27; No. 6, A. E. Hudson '27; No. 7, E. R. Wardwell '27; stroke, T. L. Laughlin '27; coxswain, D. R. Welles '27;

Third Crew Bow, F. F. Robinson '27; No. 2, A. M. Luke '27; No. 3, H. B. Mosle '27; No. 4, H. E. Rule '27; No. 5, H. G. Sweet '26; No. 6, H. C. Prudhomme '25; No. 7, H. S. Crosby '26, stroke, A. B. Coates '26; coxswain, J. E. Bradley '25.

Fourth Crew Bow, R. S. Kilbourne '27; No. 2, G. Ficks '25; No. 3, D. L. Stocker '26; No. 4, M. D. Brown '26; No. 5, O. Edwards '26; No. 6, P. Ives '27; No. 7, W. R. Clark '27; stroke H. S. Goodwin '27; coxswain, S. G. Taylor '27.