We clip the following from the American Aquatic Magazine: "What grander sight for a man to look upon can one enjoy than two fours or eights; the crews in proper form and well trained; rowing in time, with proper reach and grip; a clean pull through the water, feather without ripple; and, above all, good execution, or the knowledge of just when to apply the power while the blade of the oar is in the water. We cannot better illustrate this than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never sat in a shell. But what was the use of this combination of strength, length of reach, and power of endurance, when we find the first essential and greatest requisite absent_viz, skill! These eight men had been trained to row a cramped or chopping stroke, with not one particle of execution. In fact, this crew did not extend from start to finish, but exhausted their strength and frittered away their power, simply in motion and movement which was neither graceful nor effectual, as the result proved.
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