Word: launching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fours had a short brush downstream with the launch, before the eight went out. The first rowed much more smoothly than the second, but could gain but little...
...crew rowed upstream for over a mile and then down to the Longwood bridge and back without the second eight. E. C. Storrow '89 aided Mr. Higginson in coaching from the launch. Before returning to the Boat-house, Bullard at seven changed places with Bancroft at three...
...Bullard went in at stroke. Smith was moved to three, replacing Bancroft, who took Bullard's former place at seven. In this order the crew seemed to show improvement, being livelier and spacing a little better. The crew returned to the boat house again, however, Bullard went on the launch, and McGrew took his place at stroke. He showed greater quickness at the catch than in his former trial in this position...
Coach Higginson started up-stream in the launch with the first crew. The men rowed in fours and sixes for about a mile, while Mr. Higginson coached them in starting forward quickly on the recover. When they tried to row all eight, the boat was very unsteady and did not seem to travel well. In a quarter-mile brush with the second on the way down-stream, the second crew beat the first by a length, while rowing the same stroke. In a considerably longer stretch, around the bend to the boat-house, the first had the inside...
...launch which will be used at Squam lake, N. H., this summer had her first trial on Saturday on the Harlem River, New York. The trial was very successful and the boat made 91.4 miles an hour...