Word: finishers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...correspondence method of play requires a long time and only about twenty moves have been made in each of the two games. Several methods of deciding the match have been proposed but it has finally been decided to let the games lie over until next year and to finish them next fall. The match is very close and for this reason the Harvard players prefer to postpone it rather than to have it decided by disinterested persons as the Yale players proposed...
...pace for two laps, and an interesting race was the result. Fearing was ahead, with Schrader second, until he ran off the track and had to withdraw. By the third and last lap, Dawson had come up to the front and, with a spurt at the finish, he passed Schrader, who had just ridden in the trial heat. The finish of the tandem race was very close. Underhill and Williams passed Hewitt and Baker within a few feet of the line...
Hollister won the half-mile run easily and lowered the former intercollegiate record of 1m. 57 1-5s., made by W. C. Dohm in 1890, by two-fifths of a second. He took the lead at the start and gradually increased it to the finish. Hinckley, of Yale, who was second, finished many yards behind...
...writer of the communication says there is now left little more than a week before the Crew will leave for Poughkeepsie, but in that week we may show the men who must pull the Harvard boat first across the finish line on June 26th, that we have confidence in them, and appreciate their work, however indifferent we may have seemed...
Perkins at three, is the second heaviest man in the boat, weighing but a pound less than Sprague. Perkins slumps at full reach-at the catch, and at the finish-when he draws in his arms. He also rushes his slide...