Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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HARVARD CREW QUARTERS, RED TOP, CT., June 14, 1907.--The University crew had its first time trial over the four-mile course late this afternoon, covering the distance in 22 minutes and 46 seconds. There was a slightly favoring tide; but Blagden steered a poor course, losing the force of the tide by not staying near enough to the channel. At about 7.15 o'clock the men went in the launch downstream as far as the New London railroad bridge. The crew got away with a good start and rowed about 32 strokes per minute for the first half-mile...
...University four, after rowing about two miles in the morning, had a half-mile race with the 1910 crew, beating the latter by a quarter of a length. The substitutes were given light work...
...Wentworth, broke his oar. On the second start Lovering, number 3 in the same boat, broke his oar, but the other two crews continued over the course. Morgan's shell started at a very high stroke and led for a short distance, but at the end of the first quarter-mile Bacon had placed his crew a length in the lead, which was increased to four lengths at the finish. The time was 8 minutes and 26 seconds...
...Freshman second crew lost to the Springfield High School eight over the mile and a quarter course in the Charles river basin Saturday afternoon by two lengths and a half. The Freshmen were handicapped by the fact that they had been together only a week and had been trained for the slower stroke of a two-mile race. The times were 6 minutes and 10 seconds and 6 minutes and 17 seconds...
...race started at 6.18 o'clock. The Freshmen caught the water first and began rowing a 32 stroke to Springfield's 34. They gained slightly, but at the quarter-mile Springfield, was drawing ahead. At the Harvard bridge the Freshman coxswain had to steer so close to the other shell to avoid, a raft that Jose at 2 in the Harvard boat struck his oar against that of Hicks, Springfield's number 7, and caught a slight crab. From this point the superiority of the Springfield crew was apparent, and they finished well together, with a strong spurt...