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...Ithacan crew's superior rowing ability carried it across the finish line two lengths ahead of the Crimson boat. The Freshmen were outclassed by the Red and White yearlings, who rowed home nine lengths ahead of the '23 outfit. The oarsmanship of the Cornell eights was characterized by smooth blade work and wonderful driving power at the finish that fairly lifted the boat out of the water at the end of the stroke...
...Freshman race from start to finish was a walkaway for the Cornell boat. Up to the quarter-mile mark the two crews were very nearly even, but from that time on the Cornell yearlings pulled steadily ahead with better blade work and superior driving power. The lead was gradually increased until the finish line, when the Ithacan '23 outfit crossed the line nine lengths ahead of the Crimson Freshmen...
...until at the mile point it had two more lengths of open water to its advantage. Here Kent broke his oar and the Blue eight paddled the remainder of the mile and five-sixteenths course with seven sweeps in use. Near the finish Galt of Yale also cracked his blade, but continued rowing...
Both this morning and afternoon the University and Freshman oarsmen will take practice workouts on Lake Carnegie, paying especial attention to smoothing out their blade work in final preparation for the race tomorrow, and in accustoming themselves to the Princeton shell which has been rerigged to suit the University's style of rowing...
...shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...