Word: finish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practice track competition for field events will be continued this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Two events, the broad-jump and hammer-throw will be run off at this time, and the final events, the pole-vault and high jump, will finish the competition tomorrow. These contests are open to all members of the University...
...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. 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...
...shells. The Midshipmen tried to pull up but failed, and when the University found Annapolis unable to hold its place, it dropped to a lower and longer stroke, but continued to gain. From the three-quarters point both crews again spurted, but the University still gained and crossed the finish line three lengths ahead...
...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 crew, spurting at the finish, swept over the line a victor with a two-lengths advantage...
...Saturday the first crew rowed down-stream over the four-mile course, picking up the Freshmen at the two-mile mark, Cottage Farm Bridge. The first found little difficulty in over-coming the lead granted the Freshmen, and out-distanced the younger crew at the finish...