Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second boat being given a handicap of fifteen seconds or about six lengths. Both crews started rowing 30 strokes to the minute, but the second seemed to be much livelier, while the first appeared to be logy and soon dropped the stroke to 28. In less than a quarter of a mile the second had gained a length and before a half mile had been covered, the second crew had increased the distance between the boats by still another half length. The first crew was rowing well together, but without snap. The men did not stand on the stretchers...
...positions of the two boats were unchanged. From here to the finish the second crew fell to pieces, getting out of time and becoming unsteady. The first crew was thus able to gain seven seconds in the last mile and most of this gain was made in the last quarter, when the greater endurance of the heavier crew began to tell. The time was slow, 19m., 13s. The net gain of the first crew over the second for three and three-eighths miles was two seconds. On Wednesday it was three...
...beaten by 1-5 of a second in the 220 yards dash, which Schick did in 21 3-5. Rust also ran remarkably well and won first in the 440 and third in the 220 yards dash. Lightner contributed in no small measure to the victory in the quarter mile by his heady work at the first turn in forcing the Yale men to run on the outside. His inability to get a place in the 220 was doubtless due to his efforts in the first race...
...left to go and the crews almost even, the Weld eight began to raise the stroke gradually for the final spurt, rowing 35 to the minute. The navy was rowing only about one point higher and slowly fell a few feet behind again, where they remained until the last quarter of a mile was reached. Here they set in with a final determined effort to win, raising the stroke to 38 for a long, hard spurt. The Weld crew at once responded, however, by raising the stroke to 37, which proved to be much more effective than the navy...
From Harvard bridge to the finish the first crew slowly crept up on the second and during the last quarter of a mile, when both crews put the stroke up several points, the first gained nearly a length, finishing about a length of open water behind the second...