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...college" crew has been given up, and the substitutes are rowing a fouroar. Waters was rowing No. 2 on the four-oar yesterday. The order was: Bow, Forbes; 2, Waters; 3, Cameron; stroke, F. Davis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Varsity Crew Changes. | 5/23/1894 | See Source »

Besides these boats Mr. Blaikie is building a very light four-oar-almost a shell-without any coxswain's seat, to be used only by men of some skill. It is a boat twenty-two inches wide with two small laps. Another very heavy four-oar will carry a coxswain: it is thirty inches wide; and a lapsteak. Two lap-streak pair-oars are to be built by Blaikie and three wherries. These wherries are singles about two feet wide, lap-streaked and high enought to stand the roughest water ever seen on the Charles river. These boats though very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boating on the Charles River. | 3/24/1890 | See Source »

...substitutes are all class crew men. A four-oar has just been secured for them, and will be rigged before the end of the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard University Crew. | 6/16/1887 | See Source »

...Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto, has decided to send its four-oar crew, which now holds the amateur championship of America, to the next regatta at Henly, England. Everything seems to point to a victory for the crew when across the water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/16/1885 | See Source »

...Crimson misconstrues our meaning entirely by saying that we wish Harvard to enter no contest unless assured of victory. We simply mentioned as one of the reasons why a four-oar crew could not represent Harvard the fact that our boating interests could not be as well represented before the public at large by a four-oar as by an eight, a fact which is recognized by all boating men, and, we think, the college in general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/15/1883 | See Source »

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