Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia-Harvard race takes place-to-day at 12 o'clock. Mr. R. C. Watson has been chosen referee...
...race will probably be rowed on the 28th, though nothing definite has been decided...
Yesterday the 17th of June races were rowed over the Charles-River course. As early as half-past seven people began to collect on the Beacon-Street wall, and at half-past eight the first race was started. The programme announced eight, events, all of which took place. The last and most interesting contest was the eight-oar race, in which the Crescents, Bradfords and the Harvard 'Varsity competed...
...very rough-all the crews splashing badly. At the Crescent boat-house, Harvard was a length ahead, which it increased to three lengths at the finish. For the first half mile or so, Harvard rowed about thirty five strokes to the minute, but during the latter part of the race Storrow slowed down to thirty or thirty-one. The Bradfords and Crescents seemed to vie with each other as to who could row the faster stroke, the number per minute ranging from forty to forty-five...
Although the race was such a procession, it was interesting, inasmuch as it afforded an excellent opportunity to watch the crew before it left for New London...