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 ployed, discloses promise of better pace than our opponents, when racing shall arrive in real earnest. Now if we, for jealousy, take our own men at 4 gallop before they are ripe for it, we nm great risk of injuring their style, and of throwing them back instead of improving them. After the day's race, the body should be well washed in tepid water, and rubbed dry with tough towels. It isa good thing for an oarsman to keep a toothbrush in his dressing-room. He will find it a great relief against thirst to wash his mouth out with it when dressing, more especially so if he also uses a little tincture of myrrh,

One ‘odd man’ is of great service to training, even if he cannot spare time to row in the actual race. Many a man ina crew is the better for a day’s, or half a day’s, rest now and then. Yet his gain is loss of practice to the rest, unless a stop-gap can be found to keep the machinery going. The berth of ninth man in a University eight often leads to promotion to the full colours in a following season, as U.B.C, records can show.

With college eights there used to be a furore, some twenty years ago, for taking them over the long course in a gig eight. These maityrs, half fit, were made to row the regulation long course, from ‘first gate’ to lasher, or at least to Nuneham rail- way bridge, ata hard and without an easy, The idea was to ‘shake them together.’ ‘Che latter desideratum could have been attained just as well by taking them to the lasher and back again, but allowing them to be eased once in each mile or so. Many crews that adopted the process met with undoubted suc- cess, but we fancy that their success would have been greater had their long row been judiciously broken by rest every five minutes. ‘I'o behold 2 half-trained college eight labouring past Nuneham, at the end of some fifteen minutes of toil, jealous to beat the time of some rival crew, used to be a pitiable sight. More crews were marred than made by this fanaticism.

On the morning of a race it isa good thing to send a crew to run sprints of seventy or eighty yards, twice. This clears the wind greatly for the rest of the day, without taking any appre- ciable strength out of the man. A crew thus ‘aired’ do not so