Tom Bolles Launches Autumn Crew Practice On Rainswept Charles

A rainy Charles River saw a pre-view yesterday afternoon of the material Tom Bolles will have to work with next spring, when about 150 crew candidates took their eight-oared shells onto the water for the first time this term.

Ten heavy crews and seven 150 pound crews put in an afternoon's work.

The purpose of this fall practice, Bolles said, is not to try and form definite boats for next year's competition, but to perfect the form of the individual oarsmen. The practice sessions are scheduled to last until the first week in November, or the formation of ice on the Charles, whichever comes earlier.

Assisting Harvey Love in coaching the Yardling crew this fall will be Jimmy Ducey, who coxed the last formal crew in 1942.

Among the men who checked into Newell Boat House since the beginning of the term are Stu Clark and Robert Stone both of whom were mainstays of the freshman crew in 1942. Another oarsman who has returned from the wars is Frank Cunningham, who rowed on the 150's in '42, but who is now holding down a slide in one of the heavy boats.