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...other events will be as follows: five-mile run, scratch; invitation 40-yard dash, scratch: 40-yard dash, 9-feet limit; 600-yard run. 30-yard limit: 45-yard high hurdle race, 3 fights. 3 feet 6 inches high, 9-feet limit: 1,000-yard run. 50-yard limit; one-mile run, 60-yard limit: putting 16-pound shot, 6-feet limit. Competitors must show that they have put the 16-pound shot 38 feet, and high-jumped 5 feet, 3 inches in competition, in order to qualify for these events...
...result of the two days of bumping races, five crews, Brentford, Claverly, Mt. Auburn street, Randolph and Russell, have been chosen for the final straightaway race from scratch to be held in the Basin this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The course, which corresponds to the American Henley distance, will be one mile, 550 yards long. The start will be made at the Cottage Farm bridge and the crews will finish on a line across the river from Fairfield street, three blocks below Harvard bridge...
...rowing season for the dormitory crews culminates in the bumping races today and tomorrow and the scratch contest in the Basin on Thursday. The purposes of this work are to bring to light unknown material of University calibre and to provide outdoor exercise. The number of men from each of the upper classes,--11 Seniors, 14 Juniors, and 25 Sophomores,--shows that the older men either have less confidence in their ability and less ambition than their juniors, or else do not feel the need of physical exertion. This should not be the case, for the value of regular exercise...
...race will be started promptly at 3.45 o'clock, and any crew not at its buoy by that time will be disqualified. There will be two days of bumping races and on Thursday the best crews will race over a mile and three-quarter course in the Basin, from scratch...
...will probably be rowed down-stream. Coach Wray, Captain Cutler and other members of the University squad will act as officials on the river bank and in the launches. On Wednesday the crews will again compete in bumping races, and on Thursday a final straight-away race from scratch over a mile and one-quarter course will be held in the Basin between those crews making the best showing in the two days of bumping races...