Word: miles
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...high wind made the water too rough in the basin on Saturday afternoon; the Carroll Cup race for single sculls was again postponed. The race will be rowed over the mile course in the basin at 5.15 o'clock this afternoon, provided that the water is calm...
...Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, the second University crew won the race for the Stewards' Challenge Cup for first eight-oared shells and finished second to Cornell in the New England Challenge Cup race for junior collegiate eights. Both races were rowed over the regular Henley course of one mile and 550 yards. In the race for junior collegiate eights, which was rowed at 3 o'clock, Cornell finished a length and a quarter ahead of Harvard in 6 minutes, 26 4-5 seconds, beating the record made last year by Yale's second university crew by one-fifth of a second...
...rowing about 40 to the minute. Cornell followed, and Pennsylvania was last, being out of the race from the first. About 500 yards from the start Cornell and Harvard were exactly even, but Cornell had a lead of a length when half the distance had been covered. A half-mile from the finish Cornell had increased its lead by half a length, and Pennsylvania was about two lengths behind Harvard. From this point on the second University crew sprinted but was only able to cut down the lead a quarter of a length. Pennsylvania finished two lengths behind Harvard...
...mile run at 3.40--Harvard 1912: G. Boyd, H. W. Bradley, W. H. Fernald, F. C. Gray, H. L. Groves, O. W. Hausserman, W. H. Lacey, A. M. Rodgers, R. H. Rowse, S. B. Warner, P. R. Withington. Yale 1912: J. H. Adams, A. H. Armstrong, A. M. Bidwell, W. F. Kaynor, C. M. Skene, L. N. Stanton...
This afternoon at 5.45 o'clock the Weld crew, which is a picked eight from the three upperclass crews, will race Worcester High School over a mile and one-half course on Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester. J. Shillito '11 and W. F. Howard '09 accompanied the crew as substitute and manager respectively. O. G. Wood '09, who rows bow, will captain the eight...