Word: quarter
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...meets this year, and R.C. Foster of the Freshman team are better in the longer dash than in the 100-yards. It will take a great deal of hard work to develop enough sprinters to bring the team up to the average in these events. The outlook in the quarter and half-mile runs is brighter. Merrihew and deSelding are closely matched in the former, while Jaques of the Freshman team and Whitcher should again give the University the advantage over Yale in the half-mile. With the exception of Jaques in the mile, there is but little first-class...
...afternoon work was of a varied character. Starting at a very slow stroke, the men went down stream in three stretches as far as a quarter-mile below the Navy Yard. There, after turning, a short distance was covered with the stroke at 30. This stretch was followed by a racing start that was better than any Harvard crew has made on the Thames for the past three years. The boat shot along at a remarkable speed and the men kept together almost to perfection. The next stretch was a long one again, with a very slow stroke until opposite...
phenson '08, second, third and fourth, respectively, in the shot-put. The wonderful running of deSelding in the quarter, and the good work of Bangs and Little in the shot-put and of Harwood in the high jump were the principal cause of Harvard's good showing in the meet. More points would have been scored if Gardner had not fallen on the ninth hurdle in the 220-yard low-hurdle race and Blumer had not snapped a ligament in his thigh in the 220-yard dash...
...quarter-mile Atlee of Princeton, started out at a tremendous pace, with Carpenter of Cornell and DeSelding of Harvard following, ahead of Taylor of Pennsylvania. Atlee and Carpenter swung very wide when entering the stretch to the finish, and Taylor, seeing this, made a great spurt, and finally succeeded in passing them. Atlee became exhausted, and then De Selding sprinted down the stretch and finished a yard behind Taylor. Carpenter of Cornell secured
Harvard, though placed a little back of the starting line, took the lead in the first few strokes, rowing at the rate of 38 to the minute as against Cornell's 36. Shortly after the quarter-mile flag was reached, Harvard led by a clear length, with both crews rowing 34 strokes to the minute. At the bridge the University crew had increased its lead to two lengths of open water, and Cornell had dropped its stroke to 30. At this point the visiting crew made a desperate effort to make good its loss, but in vain, as the University...