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...this point, however, Mumford raised the beat still higher and the third crew crept up in short order. Coming out from the bridge they were even with the seconds and the relative positions did not change a fraction from then to the finish which came about an eighth of a mile beyond Harvard bridge...
University C.--Bow, Standish Bradford '24; 2, H. G. Gurran '25; 3, R. C. Storey '24; 4, C. K. Cummings '23; 5, M. W. McGreevy '24; 6, R. S. Hubbard '24; 7, H. H. Fuller '23; stroke, G. S. Mumford '25; cox., C. S. Heard...
Even before the close of the opening spurt the C crew appeared to be gaining and by the time the one-mile mark was reached the seconds were three lengths behind. Mumford maintained the stroke and since Bradford was unable to compete with his rivals' pace the C crew gained four more lengths in the remaining distance...
...Mumford '25, stroking for the first time in his career, started off at a rate of about 40 strokes a minute, but soon dropped to 32, where he kept the stroke during the remainder of the course excepting the short spurt at the close. The time was 11 minutes and 10 seconds...
...second and third crews started the day with many shifts. R. F. Bradford '23 is now stroke of crew B and B. F. Rice-Bassett '25 is at bow in the same crew. Mumford, the present stroke of the third crew, had been rowing in the same boat at number four...