Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gallantly coming down the home stretch 20 lengths behind the Lowell House crew, Leverett's eight yesterday took first honors for pluck as Lowell, Kirkland, Eliot and Adams earned places in the finals which will be rowed off tomorrow.
Rowing as if they were swinging down the course on a practice spin, the Bellboys crossed the finish line seven lengths ahead of Adams House, with the Gold Coasters just a bit more than a length ahead of Dunster. Leverett was fourth.
Adams stuck close to the Bellboys for the first half mile and then dropped slowly back. Lowell was rowing 33 and Adams 32 as they swung easily down the course. Leverett, rowing unbelievably poorly, was out of the race from the start, while Dunster staged a surprise by putting up...
By the half mile Lowell had opened up a length and a half Adams was holding tenaciously onto their length over Dunster, while it was already getting difficult to judge the open water back of them.
It was almost mechanical in the way that the Lowell boys opened up their lead, while Adams, obviously not bothering to fight with them, came down to finish without raising their stroke, satisfied with second place. Adams was 24 seconds behind Lowell, Dunster four seconds behind back, and Leverett 42...