Word: finishers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glidden, weight 160 1-2, is inclined to feather the oar under water. Settles at the finish...
...Brown, weight 161, settles at the finish and does not reach far enough. Lugs with his arms...
...scheduled a Marathon race for Lexington Day, April 19, to be run in connection with a set of handicap games. The course will be designed as closely as possible on the lines of the original, and will be from a start beyond South Framingham to a finish at Irvington Oval where the open games will be held...
...control of its slides and has also a tendency to hang at the full reach. The watermanship is good. More particular faults are a tendency in Byrd to break his arms at the catch. Swain at 4 pulls round and is slow about getting his oar away at the finish...
...faults of the crew are partly due to the tank and are made more apparent by the extremely slow stroke they have been rowing. Most of the men swing back too far and pull out of the water at the finish. They are slow in getting their hands away and are apt to be careless about time. A considerable improvement has been made of late in getting the oars down to the catch and in turning back from the recover without pause, and the men are also controlling their slides more evenly. Mr. Storrow and Mr. Mumford will continue...