Word: races
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...have enough good men to make up two satisfactory university crews, and on March 15 he took Kelley and Weed out of the University boat and placed them in the junior university crew at No. 3 and stroke respectively. This junior crew was eligible for the race for junior intercollegiate eights at the American Henley Regatta as there was not a man in the boat who had rowed in a four-mile intercollegiate contest. The junior crew continually defeated the university crew with ease in all practice races, and the university crew was kept together merely as a matter...
Before the next issue of the CRIMSON, three athletic contests will be held with Cornell at Ithaca. Today the baseball team plays the first of its two annual games with Cornell, and on Monday the University and Freshman crews race on Lake Cayuga. The chief interest centres in the contest between the two University crews, always a splendid race, well fought out from start to finish. This year we seem to have slightly the advantage of our opponents. To be sure, the Cornell crew broke the record on the Henley course last Saturday in the race with the Harvard second...
...formidable competitors. Neither man exerted himself and Howe won in 25 1-5 seconds. The second heat produced more competition. Gardner of Harvard, Craig of Michigan, Mayhew of Brown, and Robbins of Yale were the contestants. At the next to the last hurdle Robbins fell, leaving the race to Gardner and Craig. The former won in 24 1-5 seconds. Hartranft of Pennsylvania won the third heat in 24 3-5 seconds with Talcott of Cornell several yards behind. Dwight of Princeton had an easy time winning from O'Connell of Pennsylvania in 25 4-5 seconds. The time...
...trial heats in the 880-yard run were the first events to be run off yesterday. Beck of Pennsylvania won the first heat in the remarkable time of 1 minute, 56 4-5 seconds. French of Cornell ran a carefully planned race and finished just ahead of Kirjassoff of Yale for second place. Warren of Harvard was close to Kirjassoff at the finish, but could not quite overtake him. Pennsylvania again showed up strongly in the second heat, which was won by Paull in 1 minute, 58 4-5 seconds. Whiteley of Princeton led a great part...
...extreme right, and in the final stretch he was boxed and several times had to change his stride. At the very end he freed himself and sprinted ahead for second place. Hitchcock of Cornell had an easier time and held the lead for the latter part of the race after LaMontagne of Yale began to lose ground. Kelley ran even with Hitchcock until the very...