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Last Tuesday the Sophomores raced the Union Boat Club crew for seven-eights of a mile and won by a length of open water. As a result of frequent practice in racing starts the crew reaches out with vigor, and uses clean blade work at the start...
...University crew has had hard and easy work on alternate days. Monday the men rowed down stream to Harvard bridge, returning to the University boat-house in easy stretches. Tuesday they gave the second crew two and a half lengths start and defeated it by a length and a half over the 1 and 7-8 miles course down stream from Longwood bridge to the Union Boat Club, covering the distance in 9 minutes and 40 seconds. This was slow time considering the favorable conditions. On Wednesday afternoon the crew rowed down stream again to within a quarter...
...held this pace until the boat came even with the Freshmen, who were waiting above Harvard bridge. Here the University eight took ten strokes at 32, but the Freshman crew rowing a point or two higher held its own. Below the bridge the Freshmen led by a half-length, which they soon increased to three quarters. At this point Filley again raised the stroke to 32 and inside of 20 strokes drew ahead and increased the lead at the finish to about a length. The time, 9 minutes 20 seconds, was good considering the stroke which did not go higher...
...University second crew defeated the Sophomores yesterday by three-quarters of a length in a very close race down stream, approximately from the Long-wood bridge to the Union Boat Club. The time, 9 minutes and 5 seconds, was 10 and 1-2 seconds better than the record over the regular 1 and 7-8 miles course, but cannot be counted as a new record, because the beats started about 60 yards below the line and diverged from the course so as to be materially assisted by a strong tide...
Yesterday afternoon the University crew defeated the second by a length and a half over the 1 and 7-8 miles course down stream from the Longwood bridge to the Union Boat Club. The time made, 9 minutes and 40 seconds, although 29 and 1-5 seconds better than that made by Cornell in the race last year was slower than was made by the University crew in practice last year. It was also the slowest time made by the crew this year. The conditions for the race were not unfavorable, although the tide was extremely...