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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this afternoon with tide and a slight wind in their favor, and covered the course in 22m. 30s., about the same time as on Saturday. This morning the University and Freshman eights had a brush for half a mile in rough water, and the Freshmen won by about a length. In paddling down to the mark to start for the time row this afternoon, the University crew showed much better form than they have so far on the Thames, the prevalent hitch between strokes being hardly noticeable. For the first two miles of the time row the Freshman eight rowed...
...length of the race, the generally accepted distance for amateur sculling races is one and one-half miles with a turn, that is, three-quarters of a mile straightaway and back. The preparation for this race would then be practice for the regatta held by the Metropolitan Rowing Association on June 17 each year. That it might be a preparation for this larger contest, the cup should be rowed for during the first two weeks of June or earlier. Thus at least three or four days might intervene between the Carroll Cup race and the Metropolitan event. A.W. STEVENS...
...went out on the river at 9.45 o'clock this morning. The four-oared dropped out at the end of the first mile because of the wash from the launch. At the end of the two-mile the university and freshman crews stopped with the freshman a half a length ahead. The freshman crew went out again at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon and the university and four-oared at 6 o'clock. The university crew was particularly coached on getting a quick catch. Several of the men showed a bad tendency to rush the slide...
...crew defeated the Freshman four-oared yesterday, over the mile course down-stream from Harvard Bridge to the Union Boat Club. A slight lead gained by the Stone's crew near the start was maintained until within two hundred feet of the finish, when it was increased to a length. The time...
...nine and three-quarters inches and its beam twenty-three inches; it weighs 250 pounds. The shell, which is made of Spanish cedar, is fuller forward on the gunwale than last year's boat, and is a little wider on the beam to make up for the increase in length...