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Both races were rowed upstream from the Union Boat Club to Longwood Bridge. In the first race, between the first and second crews of each club, the first Newell got the best start, but the first Weld, rowing a stroke of 34, soon took the lead and at Harvard Bridge was a length and a half ahead of the first Newell, which was rowing a 32 stroke. At this point the second Newell was a length behind the first Newell and half a length ahead of the second Weld. At the finish the first Weld led the first Newell...
...annual fall races between the graded crews of the Weld and Newell Boat Clubs will be rowed this afternoon upstream from the Union Boat Club to the Longwood Bridge, a distance of a mile and seven-eighths. Two races will be rowed, with four crews in each. The first race, between the first and second crews of each club, will start at 4 o'clock, and the second, between the third Weld and the third, fourth and fifth Newell crews, at 4.30 o'clock. Any crew not on the starting line at the appointed time will not be allowed...
...fall graded races between the Weld and Newell boat clubs will be held o Wednesday, November 2, at 3.30 o'clock. The course will be up-stream from the Union Boat Club to the Longwood bridge, a distance of a mile and seven-eights...
Nine graded crews, four from the Weld and five from the Newell, are now rowing every afternoon in preparation for the fall graded races, which will be rowed up-stream from the Union Boat Club to Longwood Bridge on November 2. The work of all these crews is still crude, most of the men having the usual faults of rushing their slides and hanging back at the finish. The Weld crews are being coached by Rice and those at the Newell by Vail and M. R. Brownell...
...annual tournament of the Longwood Cricket Club, B. C. Wright '03 reached the final round by defeating R. C. Seaver, 6-2, 6-0, 4-6, 6-3, and H. Ward '98 by defeated W. J. Clothier '04, 14-12, 1-6, 8-6, 8-6. Ward defeated Wright in the finals, but was in turn defeated in the challenge round by W. A. Larned, holder of the challenge cup for 1903. In the doubles tournament for the championship of the east, Ward and Wright were the winners, defeating R. D. Wrenn '95 and G. L. Wrenn...