Word: finished
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...boats are still unsteady owing to irregularity at the catch. The men are slow about getting their hands away at the finish of the stroke, and don't shove the legs down firmly. The fault of hanging at the catch so noticeable last week is much improved...
...America, at the meeting held in New York on Saturday, chose the officials submitted by Referee J. F. Sullivan for the intercollegiate games to be held at Philadelphia on May 27 and 28. They are practically the same as for the last four years, with the exception of the finish judges...
...following suggestions were made to the referee: first, that the 440-yard run be started from the same place as the 220-yard run as is now done in the Harvard-Yale games second, that a judges' stand be erected at the finish two feet above the ground and four feet from the track. Such a stand will enable the judges to see the relative position of the inside runner. Another meeting of the executive and advisory committees will be held at Philadelphia on April...
...laws of athletics the definition of the finish line was remodelled: In the future the line will be drawn on the ground. A thread will also be stretched four feet above the ground to aid the judges in their decisions...
...class crew squad, thirty-three men. With the exception of the latter, which is working only on the machines, all the squads are practicing both on the machines and in the tank. The work is still ragged, the men rowing poorly together, with a particularly weak finish...