Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though out raced at the start and trailing over the greater part of the Basin course, the University junior eight, by means of a timely and effective sprint in the last few hundred yards, nosed out Crew A for first honors, Saturday afternoon in the most sensational practice brush seen on the Charles this season...
...time for the race ranking as it does with the best marks attained over the Basin distance this season, may be partly accounted for by the fact that the course as rowed Saturday afternoon was slightly different from the one usually taken by competing crews on the Basin, being a few boat lengths shorter than the regular mile and seven-eights stretch, but even with this item in the balance the exhibition was considered to be an unusually encouraging...
Rowing smoothly and with length in their strokes and fighting for the lead all the way down the mile and seven-eighths course in the Basin, the first and second University crews came into the last stretch of their race yesterday, practically a dead heat; a final spurt sent the second eight across the finish line about a quarter of a length in the lead...
Meanwhile Brown had been holding his crew to a slightly lower stroke, and when the seconds dropped the beat after their spurt, the first eight began to creep up again. All the way down the lower Basin the two crews held their own with a slight margin favoring the seconds. A hundred yards from the finish only a few feet separated the crews as the two coxswains called for the final spurts. The thirds finished about four lengths behind...
...University crews will race over the Basin course again this afternoon at 4 o'clock with no changes in the seating of either eight...