Word: oarsman
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Balliet, No. 2, is likewise short, and he does not carry his oar through as far as it should go on the pull and fails to get it into the water at the point he reaches to. He is a strong and endurable oarsman, however, and can be relied on in a tight place...
...Connor, the champion oarsman of America, has issued a challenge to any man on earth to row three miles for the world's championship...
...regard to the boating, the candidates for the crew and the work of the crew were discussed. The committee seem to be pleased with the showing made by the candidates at present though of course it is impossible to judge accurately at this early day what kind of an oarsman a new man will make...
...with its usual lack of discrimination some of the very men whom the college can least afford to have laid up at this time of year. Capt. Van Huyck, of the freshman crew, is seriously ill, having caught the fever some days ago by wearing the sweater of another oarsman who is down with the disease. The managers of the Navy feel great anxiety, for the 'varsity men have been exposed as well as the freshman candidates, and any man who has an attack of scarlet fever at this time of year will almost surely be unable...
...most striking features of the preparation for the race between Oxford and Cambridge Saturday was the coaching of the Oxford crew by a Cambridge oarsman-Mr. Rudolph C. Lehmann. Nor is this the first time there has been such a display of good feeling between the two universities. As far back as 1852 T. S. Egan, a Cambridge coxswain, coached Oxford. In 1869 and 1870 George Morrison of Oxford coached Cambridge after Cambridge had met several successive defeats. Again in 1883, W. B. Woodgate, an Oxford oarsman and editor of Oars and Sculls, coached Cambridge...