Word: boated
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will accommodate 55 passengers, and the fare for the trip will be $1, including refreshments. A blue book will be placed at Leavitt & Peirce's tomorrow morning at 8.30 o'clock, and the first 55 men to sign and pay the fee at that time, will be taken. The boat may be met at a place to be announced later...
That some changes will be made in the near future is a certainty. There are several first-rate men on the University rowing squad that have not yet been tried in the first boat, and these changes would have been made before, had it not been necessary to select eight men and train them to row together before the contest with Columbia...
Another reason why the race will be of interest this afternoon is that until last fall Coach Rice of Columbia was in charge of the crews that rowed from the Weld Boat Club, and the contest this afternoon will be the first for Columbia under his direction. A close race has been predicted, but the CRIMSON feels sure that it voices the sentiments of the University in saying that there is the utmost confidence in Captain Bacon and his men to win this afternoon...
...Bacon '06, of New York, four and captain, prepared for College at Groton School, where he rowed on a club crew for three years. In his Freshman year he captained and rowed four on his class crew, and for the past two years has rowed six in the University boat. He is 22 years old, weighs 185 pounds and is 6 feet 1 inch in height...
Seats for the grandstand for the boat races on Saturday, at $2 and $1.50 each, are on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's, Amee's and in Boston at Herrick's. The stand is situated near the finish, on Back street, between Otter and Berkeley streets, Boston, where the stand for the Cornell race was built last year...