Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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. Now I do not know what the actal lengths of the two shells used by Harvard and Yale were last year, nor the length of the shells in the Freshman races of 1901 and 1905, but that eights vary in length from 62 to 65 feet...
...Middendorf '16 originally was. He has in turn taken W. S. Ely's position at six. J. Talcott '16 has moved from two to three, an important shift since it involves his pulling a starboard instead of a port oar. F. W. Busk '16 has been moved from bow to number two. F. H. L. Whitmarsh '16, who has been on the Junior crew, now occupies the bow position. The final order is as follows...
University.--Stroke, Lund; 7, Cabot; 6, Parson; 5, J. W. Middendorf; 4, Harwood; 3, Stebbins; 2, Morgan; bow, Murray; cox., Creger...
Annapolis.--Stroke, Holcombe; 7, Clarke; 6, Emerson; 5, Harrison; 4, Dillon; 3, Rhea; 2, Schlossbach; bow, Ward; cox., Tarras...
First Freshman crew.--Stroke, Wiggin; 7, Quinby; 6, Taylor; 5, Nathan; 4, Davis; 3, Mackie; 2, Holt; bow, Brazer; cox., Place...