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...University and Freshman four-oar crews had a mile brush. For the first half-mile the crews kept together, but the superior weight and strength of the University four-oar enabled it to gain in the last half-mile, and it finished two and a half lengths ahead. The time was 5 minutes and 30 seconds...
Owing to the hard four-mile row Wednesday and the prevailing hot weather, the Yale crews were given only light work yesterday. The practice in the morning consisted of easy stretches. In the afternoon the University eight defeated the Freshman eight in a mile race upstream by half a length of open water. Both crews then returned to their quarters. The University four-oar and a four-oar made up of substitutes also raced a mile, the University boat winning by four lengths...
...June 14, 1905.--The University crew rowed a mile and a half down-stream this morning. The boat spaced well between strokes, but the bow four were ahead of the stroke on the catch. In the afternoon the crew started upstream with the tide over the regular four-mile course, rowing a very slow-stroke of about 26. At the mile mark they were picked up by the Freshman eight, which was waiting for them. The latter, with a much higher stroke, pulled away from the University crew, and crossed the three-mile mark ten seconds in the lead. Shortly...
...four-oar crew rowed over the half-mile course this morning in 2 minutes and 36 seconds, which is very good time. In the afternoon it took an easy row, three miles down the river, in long stretches...
...Yale university crew was once more changed yesterday, Daly being placed at two again in the university boat and Ortmayer returning to two in the four-oar. After rowing upstream for one and one-half miles in short stretches, the university crew defeated the freshmen in a mile race downstream. An improvement was noticeable in the blade work, especially on the feather...