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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Weld Boat Club has entered a crew to compete in both the junior and senior eight-oared shell races, and has also made one entry in each of the novice, junior, and intermediate races for single sculls. The eight-oared crews will row a mile and a half straightaway course from the Cottage Farm Bridge to the Union Boat Club. The single scull races will be over the first half of the same course and return, finishing at the Union Boat Club...
...June 15.--Today for the first time in over a week the first crew was not sent over the four-mile course. This morning's work was light, all the crews taking a short row of half a mile at a high stroke. On account of rough water the crew waited until late tonight before going out, and was then sent only two and one-half miles down stream against a heavy wind. Despite this handicap, good progress was made, and the shell went along smoothly over the choppy water. The men rowed a 28 and a 29 stroke. Coming...
...four-oared crew went two miles down the river, and made one of the half miles on the row home...
...eight-oared crews will row for a mile and a half straightaway down stream from the Cottage Farm Bridge to the Union Boat Club. The other races will be over a course of the same length with a turn...
GALES FERRY, June 14.--Late this afternoon the Yale university crew and the, freshman crew rowed two miles up the river returning in two stretches of one mile each. The university crew won by half a length in the first brush and a length and a half in the second. The stroke of the first crew was kept at 28 and that of the freshman crew at 30. In the morning the freshman crew had only light work and the four-oar practiced starts. The university crew...