Word: boated
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...race for the class crew championship will be rowed this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, that for the losing crews of Monday at 8. The course will be down stream, starting at the Longwood Bridge, and finishing at the Union Boat Club, a distance of a mile and seven-eighths. This will give the crews the benefit of a strong ebb tide, and, other conditions being favorable, good time should be made...
...University baseball squad of seventeen players will leave the Square at 4 o'clock this afternoon for the southern trip. The team will go to New York on the Fall River boat, and will continue on its way to Annapolis tomorrow morning. The first game scheduled is with Virginia on Saturday, but it has been impossible to secure grounds in Washington and the game will either be played in Baltimore or cancelled. The team will make its headquarters at Annapolis next week, will play games with the Naval Academy there on next Tuesday and Thursday and will start north...
Owing to the disbanding of several of the second class crews at the Weld and Newell boat clubs, the races scheduled for today will not be rowed. As previously announced, the crews defeated in the trials last Monday will race together on Friday...
Owing to the tide there was a delay at the start and the first race, between the Newell and Weld Sophomores, did not commence until after six o'clock. The two crews caught the water together, but the Weld boat, rowing a 37 stroke immediately began to forge ahead and, settling to about a 35 to the Newell's 33, gradually increased the lead and won by three and a quarter lengths of open water. At the Harvard bridge, the Newell crew was only a length behind, but was unable to spurt and steadily dropped to the rear. The time...
...Junior race, the Newell boat started with about a 35 stroke, but the Weld, rowing a point lower, slowly drew ahead, and, after two-thirds of the distance had been covered, had a lead of half a length. These positions were maintained until within some fifty yards of the finish, when the Newell crew raised the stroke and began to gain rapidly. The Weld boat, however, crossed the line first by about two feet. The time, 9 minutes, 44 1-2 seconds, was the fastest made during the afternoon...