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...sailing home from Swampscott with the presidential silver, china and servitors, making her way across Massachusetts Bay toward the Cape Cod Canal, was almost rammed by the liner Martha Washington. The Mayflower cut across the liner's bow and the Martha Washington was obliged to order full speed astern...
Brown scored once in the second, and in the fourth drove Roulmin to the showers with a barrage of hits, one of them a homer by Keeper, which left the Brunonians but two runs astern as Spalding took up the pitching burden. A pass, a triple by Hoffman, and a single by Ruckstall evened the score in the fifth. Three more safeties accounted for another score in the seventh, putting Brown ahead, and an error by Slayton paved the way for two superfluous tallies in the eighth...
Thumping along 40 strokes to the minute in his singles scull, W. E. Garrett Gilmore of Baltimore left Walter Hoover of Duluth sweating four lengths astern after rowing a mile and a quarter down the St. Louis River. Gilmore stepped ashore and was handed the Philadelphia Challenge Cup, emblematic of the world's singles sculling championship...
...buckled grimly to the task of making up the deficit. And they nearly succeeded in doing it, for the prow of the Senior shell cut the line barely 8 feet in front--a rather tight finish to say the least. Sophomore B came along a quarter length astern...
...lead of three-quarters of a length by the half-mile mark, steadily increasing this advantage under pressure of a lively 32 stroke as Matthews dropped the beat in the Junior shell to 28. Half a length of open water showed between the crews as Harvard Bridge dropped astern, but the third crew, starting even with University A at the mile mark, soon forced the latter to renewed efforts. At the Henley flags the leaders were neck and neck while the Junior eight had dropped to two lengths behind...