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...Crimson boat registered about 34 for the first minute. After the first hundred yards or so Yale's heightened stroke began to tell and the visiting crew crept into a lead to which they steadily added, until at the Harvard Bridge the Crimson eight was a full length astern...
...greater part of the course, with the Crimson and Princeton battling for first place, but the Orange and Black eight came back with a driving spurt at the finish which gave it a quarter boat length's margin across the line. Navy finished in third place, a length astern the University shell...
Crew Loses Yale Astern...
...fellows with the yellow streaks; and Hall, the terror of Montclair, N. J., or Morris, the grand old man of the Western Plains League, dampening the spheroid for the daily boys. The CRIMSON team will be greatly strengthened by Reynolds, lately released by the Newell Club, who will officiate astern the bat, and hold the would-be pilferers snugly to their pillows. Captain McIntosh of the scholars, will be seen again in short field; and Captain Baker will probably stab the wild ones from the first sack...
...June 14, 1913.--The University eight gave a remarkable exhibition of rowing today when it covered the four-mile course with a favoring tide and a very light wind astern in the fast time of 20 minutes, 14 seconds, just 4 seconds behind the record. The crew has been developing rapidly within the last week and has been showing a more complete mastery of the points emphasized by Coach Wray. In the trial the men rowed perfectly together throughout the course and it is to this that the speed may be largely attributed...