Word: finishers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...founded in 1839, and the regatta of 1895 will be the fifty-seventh annual. The races are rowed on the Thames, up stream, from just above Regatta Island to a point near Henley Bridge. The start is about a mile above Hambledon Lock, and the finish nearly the same distance below Marsh Lock, the whole stretch of water, from lock to lock, being 3 3/16 miles. The course is one mile and five-sixteenths in length. The first mile is nearly straight, with a little point jutting out at Rememham, but near the mile-post the river bends sharply...
...single scull race had three entries - Philip Nichols '95, W. S. Youngman '95, and G. H. Noyes '97. Nichols, when well down the course, got upset, and his two opponents rowed to his aid. After giving him the assistance he needed, the two rowed for the finish, Youngman crossing first...
...race for wherries was divided into two preliminaries and a final. The first heat was won by W. W. Stevens '97 and the second by R. C. Chittenden '97. The final was the closest race of the afternoon, the two men coming down to the finish almost boat for boat. Stevens won by less than a foot...
...Kimball will be the starter and C. Smith, judge of finish. Mr. Donovan, owing to an accident, will be unable to officiate...
Thrall of Yale should finish first in the mile walk with Houghton of Amherst second and Drew of Harvard third...