Word: boated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With last year's boat races still in mind, and with the memory of other contests that have been won by narrow margins, a point has occured to me as I suppose to others, that perhaps has not been brought to the notice of the officials. It has always been the custom to start boat races with the sterns of the crafts even. The accurate anchoring of scows and the holding of the sterns by experienced men has invariably been arranged with considerable forethought. At the finish line the first bow to cross indicates the winner...
...University crew squad will leave for Annapolis Sunday afternoon to race the Naval Academy crew. Last year two crews were taken and the races split even, the first boat losing to the first Annapolis boat, by half a length, and the second boat winning from the second Navy crew by three lengths...
...crews have been spending the latter part of the week in easy practice races. On Friday the first and second boats rowed over the Henley course together. At Cottage Farm Bridge the race commenced, the second boat being given a lead of one length. The first crew got the jump, making an excellent racing start, and closed up the lead half a length in the first 20 strokes. The seconds were good at a low stroke, but when it had to be put up the first soon showed its superiority. Thus, after averaging about 32 strokes per minute, the first...
...Union Boat Club.-Stroke, W. T. Gardiner '14; 7, L. Saltonstall '14; 6, L. Withington, Jr., '11; 5, L. R. Phillips, Cornell '12; 4, P. Withington '09; 3, G. R. Fergeson, Cornell '12; 2, C. W. Peabody '12; bow, E. Harding '10; cox., C. T. Abeles...
...Union Boat Club has announced that it will send a crew to the American Henley regatta...