CREW NOTES.

The 'varsity crew will not row during the first three days of this week but will instead take very light exercise in the shape of cross country walks. The work of the men on the rowing weights has been very severe during the last week and Mr. Watson's idea probably is to give them a little breathing space before regular work on the river begins. On Saturday the men went out by twos in the pair-oar and were watched by Captain Bullard in the absence of Mr. Watson.

G. S. Mumford '87, who was captain of the 'varsity crew of '86, will probably coach the '96 crew during most of the coming rowing season. Saturday afternoon Mr. Mumford came out for the first time to look over the present candidates.

The class crews will probably not go on the river until Wednesday or Thursday, as the alterations in the boat house have not yet been completed and much work is yet to be done on the boats.

Captain Kernan of the '97 crew had several of his men on the river Saturday for the first time. In the morning Dunlop, Wrightington and Chatman took turns in a pair-oar, and in the afternoon Cornwell, Chatman, Watson, Gleason and Rantoul went out.

Davy, the Cambridge boat builder, is at work on a barge for the freshman crew, which he expects to have finished soon after the 15th. The barge is very much lighter and narrower than the boat the freshmen had last year, and it is hoped by this means to avoid the usual abrupt change when the crew begins to row in a racing shell.

The freshman crew is not as good as it was a month ago. There are still 16 men rowing. They show the same snap as usual, but their general form is getting poorer, on the whole. They are being worked pretty hard, some of them rowing twice a day. On Saturday the crew rowed in the following order: Stroke, H. Adams; 7, Butler; 6, Seaver; 5, Goodrich; 4, Hurley; 3, Rice; 2, Bull; bow, J. Adams.