Word: henley
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...University crew will row its annual race with Cornell over a two-mile straightaway course on Lake Cayuga. The Cornell crew will be exactly the same eight which defeated the second University crew by a little over a length in a mile and 550 yards course at the American Henley Regatta last Saturday. The University crew will row in its regular order, as Waid returned to No. 7 Thursday...
...make up two satisfactory university crews, and on March 15 he took Kelley and Weed out of the University boat and placed them in the junior university crew at No. 3 and stroke respectively. This junior crew was eligible for the race for junior intercollegiate eights at the American Henley Regatta as there was not a man in the boat who had rowed in a four-mile intercollegiate contest. The junior crew continually defeated the university crew with ease in all practice races, and the university crew was kept together merely as a matter of form. Conditions on the lake...
...Lake Cayuga. The chief interest centres in the contest between the two University crews, always a splendid race, well fought out from start to finish. This year we seem to have slightly the advantage of our opponents. To be sure, the Cornell crew broke the record on the Henley course last Saturday in the race with the Harvard second crew, but none of the men are oarsmen of much experience in a university boat. On the other hand the Harvard crew is chiefly composed of members of last year's victorious eight, and the order has remained practically unchanged throughout...
Both the Cornell crews had light work. The University crew especially showed great improvement in form and speed over its work as seen at the American Henley Regatta. The lake was very rough during the practice of the crews, and the weather was extremely hot with repeated showers...
...seventh annual Henley Regatta of the American Rowing Association held Saturday on the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, the second University crew won the race for the Stewards' Challenge Cup for first eight-oared shells and finished second to Cornell in the New England Challenge Cup race for junior collegiate eights. Both races were rowed over the regular Henley course of one mile and 550 yards. In the race for junior collegiate eights, which was rowed at 3 o'clock, Cornell finished a length and a quarter ahead of Harvard in 6 minutes, 26 4-5 seconds, beating the record made last...