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...night of July 14 last. He was cruising on the yacht Spalpeen, which was run down in a fog by the Clyde liner Benefactor, on that night. Fisher climbed aboard the Benefactor without accident, but in trying to return to the yacht, fell into the sea and was carried astern by the tide. He kept afloat for several minutes, and asked that a boat be put down for him. This was not done, but instead the Benefactor was backed up toward him, and he was caught in the propeller, which cut off his head. His body was found ten days...
...Rowing Association Regatta, the Weld Boat Club Crew defeated the Riverside Boat Club junior eight by about a length and a half. The course was a mile and a half straight-away and the time was 9m. 40s. The conditions were favorable, what little wind there was being slightly astern, while the water was fairly smooth and the tide was just at the flood. The race was one of the most exciting of the afternoon and at no time were the crews more than two lengths apart. The Weld Crew rowed in very good form, using a long powerful...
...whole, the crew is rowing in very good time and the men are all working hard. They lift the boat, however, on the catch and kick it astern, and also yank their arms into their laps on the draw. The finish is also hurried too much...
...university of 1000 men, with a good gymnasium, with an athletic council out of debt, an eight oared shell of first-class build and model already paid for and unequalled facilities for rowing. With far less material in former years, we have crossed the line with twelve college crews astern, we have rowed the greatest of crews, Oxford; we have filled our library so full of trophies that some have to be rolled up and tucked away for very lack of room. Now, out of all this material is not something and indeed much to come? Thus, with a little...
...Harris. All the crews spurted desperately over the last hundred yards of the course, but the order was not changed, and Mumford sent his barge over the line a quarter length ahead of Colony, who had Harris by nearly a length. Porter brought up the rear, half a length astern of Harris...