Word: racebegan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...RACEbegan. All four boats started well together, and for the first few strokes neither had any advantage. On the third stroke Brown, of Harris' eight, snapped his oar, and thus put his crew out of the race. In the first fifty yards Colony and Mumford began to draw ahead, and when the crews were abreast of the boat-house it could be seen that the finish would result in a lapping race. At this point Mumford was leading Colony by half a length, with Harris a good third, and Porter last, but lapping Harris. All the crews spurted desperately over...
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