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LIGHT, WORK FOR UNIVERSITY EIGHT; MORRIS ROWED AT 4

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Red Top, Conn., June 12--Coach Haines gave the second University crew a rest this morning after the strenuous time trials of yesterday, and spent several hours in a first hand observation of the individual work of the first eight. The coach took F. B. Lothario's seat at number four after a short trial race with the 1922 oarsmen.

The Freshmen covered the two-mile course in ten minutes, twenty-one seconds today, rowing at the rate of twenty-eight strokes to the minute. The second University shell kept the yearling paddlers well in hand, however, out distancing them easily, though stroking only twenty-four.

In the afternoon all three crews were given an easy work-out over the four-mile course. Coach Haines kept all the eights rowing at a slow stroke, paying special attention to individual form and emphasizing care in making a proper recovery.

During the afternoon D. H. Morris '21 was seated at number four in the first boat and C. W. Greenough '19 in the same position in the second shell.

Although the time made by the first crews in today's trials was a great improvement over the rather poor record of 22 minutes, 17 seconds made yesterday, Coach Haines was still dissatisfied, with the form shown by the University and Freshman oarsmen in the starts. After completing the four-mile course, and short time was spent in practising starts.

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