Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stroke, special attention being paid to working well together and no attempt being made at speed. Late in the afternoon, Mr. Herrick took the second crew down to the Navy Yard. On the return trip, a mile was rowed at a high stroke to accustom the men to fast pace, but no attempt at time was made...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 9, 1914. This morning's rowing was featured by a half-mile brush up-stream between the first and second University crews and the Freshman eight. The ebbing tide and a light northeast wind made conditions fairly fast. At the finish line, each boat over-lapped the other, coming in in the order named above. Two minutes and twenty seconds was the unofficial time...
Aside from Hitchcock's good pitching, the base running of the University team was the commendable feature of the game. Hardwick and Wingate were especially fast on the bases, the former's tally on Waterman's scratch hit between first and second being one of the fastest bits of base-running seen on Soldiers Field for some time. Bowen pitched good ball until the eighth when three hits were registered against him, one of them a double. These hits combined with an error netted the Harvard team three runs. Both pitchers were given good support, although none of the fielding...
Williams will oppose the University baseball team on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. As usual, the purple will be represented by a fast aggregation, which to date has had a very creditable season. The Williams team was defeated by Yale by the score of 5 to 4 but has a victory over Princeton to its credit. In the series with Amherst, the Williams team has split even...
...close third, while Wood, of California, Poucher, of Yale and McKenzie, of Princeton, will fight it out for the last two places. There is little danger of J. P. Jones's record being broken in this race tomorrow, but the men are so evenly matched that an unusually fast time will result...