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Today will be a busy one for Harvard's crews. The Harvard Varsity 150-pound crew, the second and third Freshman and the Freshman 150-pound crew will race this afternoon over the Henley course in the Charles River Hasin...
...time for the winners was seven minutes and seventeen seconds, which is rather slow for the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles, but was not too bad in this case on account of the disadvantageous conditions. The Bellboys followed the Anglers at about one and one-half lengths with a time of 7.23; the Kirkland oarsmen trailed them by three-quarters of a length, turning in a time of 7.26; and the Rabbits drove the whole fleet across the finish in 7.28, a half-length behind the third boat...
Rowing a fairly fast time for rough water the Browne and Nichols crew defeated the first Freshman 150-pound crew by three lengths in the race Saturday afternoon over the regulation Henley course. The Black and White crew was a half length ahead after the first half-mile when the 150 crow's No. 7 man caught a minor crab and although he recovered from it the strain later caused the rigger to break, making the car utterly useless. The time for the winning boat was seven minutes and seventeen seconds for the mile and five-sixteenths...
...crews of Phillips Brooks and Kirkland Houses led the way in their respective heats in the qualifying trials for the Agassiz Cup race which will be held on the Henley course next Wednesday afternoon. Lowell and Leverett were the other eights to qualify but a meeting of the crew managers this afternoon may make some changes since the Adams crew, although third in its heat, covered the course more quickly than Kirkland by about seven seconds...
...Because of their semi-varsity standing the Brooks crew were using a varsity shell, and had the advantage of varsity coaching and of better medical supplies while the other outfits were using equipment from the Weld boathouse. But they showed that such attention had been justified by doing the Henley distance, a mile and five-sixteenths, in seven minutes and ten seconds...