Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sparring and wrestling. The events will be as follows: heavy weight sparring, 160 pounds or over; middle weight sparring, under 160 pounds; light weight sparring, 140 pounds or under; heavy weight wrestling, 160 pounds or over; middle weight wrestling, under 160 pounds; light weight wrestling, 140 pounds or under; feather weight wrestling, 125 pounds or under, and putting 16 pound shot...
Stroke. Glidden. Apt to make two parts of stroke and tendency to feather under water...
...Kelton, weight 193, is somewhat clumsy with his oar, and on the stroke starts his slide too quickly. He is strong and is to be relied on to do hard work. No. 6, D. R. Vail '93, weight 180, follows No. 7 well in the stroke. He doesn't feather his oar quickly enough, and this makes him slow on the first part of the recover. No. 5, C. K. Cummings '93, weight 180, is very irregular, finding it very difficult to row ten strokes alike. He does not get his arms away quickly enough on recover, and does...
...rows smoothly and uses his legs well, but needs to apply more vigor at both ends of the stroke, and slow his slide a little; 7 rows very roughly, meeting his oar and finishing badly; 6, shoves out, does not control his slide, lifts the boat and does not feather; 5 swings in a circle, does not control his slide, is slow and weak at the catch, jerks his arms into his body, slow in getting his arms away and is ineffective in making the boat go ahead; 4 is apt to lose control of his slide on the stroke...
...feather weight sparring between H. S. MacPherson L. S., and J. R. Whipple '94, afforded great interest and proved very entertaining. There were three rounds of as many minutes each, and then McPheron was given the event. Although 10 pounds lighter than his opponent McPherson was much more at his ease, and by his clever dodging and telling hits won many an advantange. Whipple fought a plucky battle and showed good staying qualities. The sparring began slowly but gradually grew faster and the last round was hard fought and one in which the heavier man often appeared to advantage...