Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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SHOOTING CLUB.- Shoot this afternoon at 2.30. All men who have entered the handicap match must be out as no back strings can be made...
...concrete instance of the blood-thirstiness objected to is supplied by the following sentence quoted from the longest article, entitled "The Flagellants." "Every day thereafter, the victim's bloody back burned up in red hell-fire before the tormentor's wild eyes: divine threats of damnation echoed through the silence; amid the awful glare two gaunt figures writhed,- the one upon the floor, his eyes starting out in agony, the other in the air, his eyes swelling with glutted revenge...
Yesterday, Wrightington and Biddle, who have been with the 'Varsity, were sent back to the College crew. Marvin and McDuffie, who have been rowing in the Sophomore boat, were taken to the 'Varsity. Marvin was put in at bow and J. H. Perkins, who is again having trouble with his side, was replaced at 5 by McDuffie. On the second stretch Donald replaced McDuffie. Biddle will return to the Freshman boat today. The entire make-up was: Stroke, J. F. Perkins; 7, Goodrich; 6, Thomson; 5, McDuffie, Donald; 4, Sprague; 3, Whitbeck; 2, Bull; bow, Marvin. Before the practice...
...caught them and took the lead. After the first 200 yards '99 was ahead, the other crews being at first well bunched. At the half-mile the Freshmen had a slight lead over '97 and '98, but, getting into difficulties with the rough water, caught several crabs and fell back a length and a half; '98 gradually drew ahead and the race for third place was left to '97 and 1900. At the bridge they were even, the Freshmen having caught up, and from there to the finish they steadily pulled ahead, leading by 1 1-2 lengths...
...Ninety-nine crew has not shown as much improvement lately as the other crews. The loss of Whitbeck at five necessitating two changes in the boat set the crew back considerably. The crew is the lightest of the four, but seven men have rowed in races before and six sat in last year's Freshmen boat. The men reach out well on the catch and have a strong body swing. Their leg work, however, is not good and they are heavy and slow at the beginning of the recover. The order of the crew in the boat, their ages, weights...