VARSITY BOATING APPEARS DECIDED

With a week of hard practice during the Easter holidays behind them, the Varsity crew is beginning to shape up well. A first boat that was put together before vacation seems to be fairly definite, and no changes are expected before the first race.

Before vacation, two positions, stroke and five, were worrying Coach Tom Bolles. At the stroke oar there were four possibilities, Bill Rowe, Jack Wilson, Colton Wagner, and Barr Comstock. From the outset it has seemed that Bill Rowe was the favorite. Last year he stroked the Jayvee shell. Bolles rates all four men as good strokes, but naturally not up to the standard set by Spike Chase last year.

Trouble at Number Five

The number five position was left open this year with the graduation last June of John Gardiner, two seasons a five man. Last year's Freshman number five, Behn Riggs, is not rowing this year, and as a result Bolles has been quite hard put to find someone to all the position. For a while there was a question of whether Walt Kernan was going to be able to fill the post or whether Bolles would have to shift Dud Talbot from the three position, but Kernan seems to have fitted in well.

The first boating now stands: Stroke, Rowe; seven, Stevens; six, Gray; five, Kernan; Four, Fowler; three. Talbot; two, Richards; and bow, Pirnie. The Coxswain is still undecided, as the position is rotated between Fox, Kinoy, shortlidge, and Snow. Kinoy holds the edge as far as weight is concerned, but Shortlidge is perhaps the most experienced.

Only Two Seniors Up

There are only two seniors in the first boat, Rowe and Talbot, which means one thing in particular--that Harvard has a chance in the Olympic trials next year. However, as far as this one fact is concerned, the California crew and the Yale crew are both starting out the season with no seniors aboard.

Only four men were lost to the Varsity at graduation last year, leaving a considerable nucleus around which this year's crew can be built. But, the crew was robbed of a good deal of mileage in the early part of the season by the decidedly disagreeable weather that New England has had this spring. Whether the crew regained enough of this during the holidays is yet to be seen in the first race, against Rutgers and M.I. T. on Saturday the twenty-second.