Word: mile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Junior class crew defeated the Sophomore eight in the one and only race of the interclass season on the Charles yesterday afternoon. The water was smoother than had been expected from the high wind earlier in the day, and the crews were able to use the one-mile course down-stream between the Cottage Farm and the Harvard Bridges...
...boats started rowing a 28 stroke, but this was quickly dropped to 24. From the beginning the Juniors pulled into the lead, and at the quarter-mile mark were ahead by a fourth of a length. The 1918 crew were smoother, and, rowing a higher stroke, put more drive into the shell. At the half-mile they had increased their lead to three lengths, which they maintained to the finish. The Sophomores did not put their stroke up until the last four hundred yards, and then it was too late to cut down the open water between the boats...
...Patrol Squadron units, and it was apparent that under the circumstances it will be impossible to continue the class crews longer. Of the five Junior and Sophomore eights which went out Friday, only two reported yesterday, and it was decided to finish the class rowing season by a one-mile race between these shells today. F. G. Balch '18 and G. L. Batchelder '19 were elected captains of the Junior and Sophomore eights respectively. The boats will race as follows...
...vessels should clear our ports they would be captured by the British as soon as they were outside the three-mile limit, or they would be sunk by their commanders to escape capture. Any vessel which by chance slipped through the blockade would without doubt attempt to supply submarines or other warships, and to co-operate with them in attacks on American ships and coasts...
...work of J. D. Hutchinson '19 in the mile races at the winter meets was particularly noteworthy, for he won two first and two third places. His best performance was in the Harvard-Dartmouth-Pennsylvania meet...