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...shells, and at the half mile flag Columbia was three lengths to the rear. In going to the mile flag the Harvard stroke dropped to 39, 38, and finally to 34, while Columbia hit up the stroke to 36, 37 and 38. At the mile and a half buoy Harvard was eight lengths to the good, and was rowing in splendid form, while Columbia had begun to show a ragged stroke. At the two mile flag Harvard was timed at 11m. 44s., and Columbia at 12m. 47s. Columbia now spurted desperately, rushing the stroke up to 42, but without avail...
...Harvard's 40. This state of affairs was of but short duration, however, and before another hundred yards had been covered, the Harvard boat had been sent a length to the fore. The times at the half mile were, Harvard, 2m. 58s.,: Columbia, 3m. 9s. At the mile buoy both crews were bending to their work with a 40 stroke, the crimson leading by four open lengths. Time, Harvard, 6m. 1s.: Culumbia 6m. 22s. Columbia now struck into a 44 stroke, only to reach the mile and a half flag in 9m. 37s., 32s. behind Harvard. The race...
...follows: First mile, at 11.34; second mile, at 11.59; and third, at 12 22 1-2. Dunham finished at 12.30. Webster gave up in the middle of the race. Coombs, who was second at the end of the first mile, lost his position by an accident. In rounding the buoy he was struck by a gust of wind and thrown into the Water. Boats were immediately sent out, however, and he finished the race, coming in about a third of a mile behind Dunham...
...miles was in Class A canoes. Only two men entered the contest; A. G. Webster, '85, Gerin ine; and E. K. Dunham, M. S., Phillis. Dunham, whose canoe had but one sail, was so handicapped by it in the head wind, that he withdrew soon after rounding the first buoy. The start in the race was made at 11.07, and Webster, who finished the race alone, completed the first mile at 11.31, and the second...
...fifth half-mile buoy the long swing of Harvard began to show its effect, and the fourth and last mile was begun with our boat seven seconds in the lead...