Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interscholastics will be run off on May 5 following the completion of the University handicap meet. After a canvass of the 300 schools invited to compete, special rules have been made for three short distance events. In the 440-yard dash two separate races will be run, and the places will be determined by comparing the times of the first five men in each race. In the 220-yard dash and the 220-yard low hurdles two men will qualify from each at the trial heats. The five place winners will be picked from the leaders in the two final...
After a series of stiff practice sessions since their trial race last week, the two University crews will compete again at 4 o'clock this afternoon in a mile and three quarters test over the Charles River Basin course. The Ineligible combination, which showed surprising strength in the previous handicap grind, is scheduled to start with them as a competitor in the event...
...mile and three-quarters handicap race Saturday afternoon marked the first official competition between the two University crews since Coach E. J. Brown '96 picked them last Monday. The eight stroked by Captain John Watts '28 showed exceptional power in this try-out by defeating the Second University boat with four lengths to spare, and leading a strong Ineligible combination by six lengths...
Before the initial quarter-mile sprint was over, the first crew, rowing 39 strokes to the minute, had overhauled the Junior boat and was gaining rapidly on the Ineligibles. From this point on, the race tightened, with all three boats stroking a steady 32-beat. In the closing half-mile straightaway, the Ineligibles failed to sprint in time to cover the determined rush started by Captain Watts and, had it not been for the clever steering of their coxswain, C. H. Pforzheimer '28, would have fallen more than a length behind. Open water still separated them from the Lawrence crew...
Coach Brown had originally scheduled the race to take place in the Charles River Basin but a brought time-trial experienced early in the afternoon by the first 150-pound crew of Coach C. S. Heard '25 convinced him that the lower course was unnavigable...