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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seventeen minutes past three, Captian Richardson fired the starting gun from the bow of the John Harvard. Each crew caught the water at the same time; the second boat held the Boston side of the river, the fourth the Cambridge side, with the third between. J. Cutler, stroking the third, at once brought his crew into the lead by a few yards, and the fourth dropped back behind the second by about the same distance; each crew was rowing 30 strokes to the minute. In this same relative position the first two crews swept under the Harvard Bridge...
...English team begin play at 3 P. M. Each man will play one game, at the rate of 25 moves an hour, with a man representing the English team. The country winning the majority of games will win the challenge cup, which has been held by Oxford for the past three years. The match last year resulted in a draw, each side winning two games. The other two games were drawn...
...practice of the University baseball squad has been marked by considerable improvement during the past week. The weather has been so cold that going out of doors has been rendered unfeasible, and as a result it has been impossible to introduce any innovations into the regular routine of work. It is doubtful whether the team will be able to leave the Cage before another week has passed. Last Tuesday a cut was made in the fielding squad, thereby reducing its number to 18 men. The battery squad is somewhat larger...
During the past week no radical changes have been made in any of the crews. The first boat has been on the river every day, despite the bad weather, and has usually rowed to the basin and back, accompanied by Coach Wray in the John Harvard. Yesterday, owing to the absence of Faulkner, Coach Wray went in at bow. Morgan is still stroking, and Waid is at five...
After being for several years the representative of the city press at the State House, Mr. Murphy has been on the Globe staff for the past twelve years and is widely known throughout state political circles as a ready and witty writer and speaker...