Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coxwain Fox started to yell to the power in the waist of the boat, and though the stroke didn't go up then, the power went on and the unbelievably smooth boat pulled away, opening up a lead they climaxed in a beautiful closing sprint...
Inch by Inch Into the Lead...
Half a mile to go . . . the stroke went up a little and as it did the Harvard boat, inch by inch, pulled into the lead. It was slow business, but it was sure. Down the last quarter it was all Tom Bolles's boys. Up and up went the stroke as the crew shot away from Princeton's tiring crew, past blaring automobile horns and wildly yelling Harvardians watching their rowing Renaissance. The Varsity didn't look quite as smooth as the Jayvees had, but in true Washington style they were winning that race in its closing stages...
...Jayvee race proceeding had been no loss thrilling. They too went off to an easy start, settled down to a steady 32. But unlike the Varsity race, the Tigers, three or four strokes higher, pulled away to a 1 1-2 length lead at the quarter. They could not hold it, and a mile later the two boats were even as they entered the last half...
...outstanding races of the afternoon were the mile run and the class "A" mile relay. Gill paced B.C. into victory in the latter after a thrilling race in which Harvard and then Rhode Island at one time held the lead. But the other members of the Crimson quartet could not hold Bill O'Connor's early lead and they lapsed into third place...