Word: racing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Permission was given the second University crew, and the winning crew in the interclass race, to enter the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia on Saturday, May 23. It was also decided to make an effort to have scrub baseball diamonds for the use of the Leiter cup teams laid out on Soldiers Field...
With only eight days of actual practice on the Charles left before the Annapolis race, the University eight was put through a short but hard drill yesterday afternoon. The river was very rough, and the wind dead ahead upstream, but Coach Wray demanded a high stroke. On the first sprint the stroke was rapidly put up to 33 to the minute, and in the stretch extending from below the Stillman Infirmary to the boathouse it was raised to 36. The crew showed even better form with a high stroke than with a low, although it tended naturally to clip...
...changes have been made in the orders of the University boats, and it is quite probable that no further alterations will be made for the time being. The crew with substitutes will leave for Annapolis on Thursday, April 16, and will race the Naval Academy the next day at noon. On the following Wednesday, April 22, the race will be rowed over the two mile course, and if the weather permits will start at 3 o'clock in the afternoon...
...Relay race--Won by Princeton; Ralli, Bamman, Denniston, Chambers, Time...
...unexpected change was made in the order of the first University crew yesterday afternoon when Sargent resumed his former position at stroke. Morgan has held this place for several weeks, and the change seems all the more sudden, since Sargent had apparently been dropped from the squad after the race on Saturday. As a result of this shift Morgan will go to the second crew, probably at number four. Yesterday he stroked the second boat in the absence of Reece, who is suffering from a slight cold...