Word: finished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leaving Groton, one's attention is immediately attracted by the huge grand stand on the New London side of the river, which is built directly opposite the finish of the course. As only the end of the race can be seen from the stand, various methods are employed to keep the spectators informed about the progress of races from the very start. In the first place, there is a little telegraph office adjoining, through which a constant communication is kept up between the start and each separate half mile flag, and these messages are posted directly in front...
...finish, there is a large crimson and blue flag, standing directly out of the river, and as we steam up the course we pass them at every half-mile. Most of these flags disappeared after the races last year, and in some mysterious way turned up in Cambridge, where they form very interesting souvenirs of Harvard's victories. At the two-mile flag, where the freshman race is started, we see Point - - on the left, and the New London Navy Yard on the right, where the old man-of-war "Florida" used to be anchored. These last two miles...
...Haven, and had studied it carefully. It was taken when the leading men were about 10 yards from the tape, and we are unable to understand what their relative positions at this point in the race has to do with the order in which they crossed the finish line. But if this picture had been taken at the instant the winner breasted the tape, it would have been impossible to learn from it who had won. The instrument stood on the bank at the extreme outside edge of the path. about 25 yards from the finish, and the view obtained...
...camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill...
...metal rod is fixed in the stern of the shorter boat, and another on the longer boat, at a distance forward from the center of that boat, equal to one half the length of the shorter boat. The two crews are started even and timed at the finish by these flags. In case of a close finish the referee may reserve his decision, but not longer than the day of the race. In each successive year, the crews must row on alternate courses, Yale having the east course this year. Any man is eligible to row in the university race...