Rowing.

After considerable delay, the "Smad's' representative has at last been able to see the Eight in action for sufficient length of time to be able to make a criticism. Those rowing in the crew at present are Milne str., Brown 7, Hansen 6, gibbons 5, Willis 4, Barnes 3, McIntosh 2, Eggers bow; cox, Keating. The crew has only ben out in the eight two or three times but even so, considering the fact that they have been rowing all the season, the form is very rough. The boat does not appear to be riding as steadily as she might, which points to a lack of concentration on balance.

Of the individuals it may be said that Milne strokes the crew along quite nicely. Brown, Willis and Barnes all fall to finish the stroke properly, and of the whole crew no one is getting a really clean beginning and finish to the stroke. Most of them seem to be coming up on their slides too quickly, and as a result the boat is not running properly. The work is not coming on evenly, and the eight blades certainly do not come out together. These two faults are the cause, to a large extent, of the uneven riding of the boat, but this is also attributable to the fact that very few of the crew keep the buttons of their oars pressed firmly against the sill of their rowlock.

With plenty of practice, however, they may make quite a fair crew, and the coach, Mr. Barnes, is certainly putting in a lot of time and trouble to make them as good a crew as he can. McLeod is rowing very nicely at present and seems very unlucky not to have found a place in the eight.