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Each club, at present, possesses a six-oar barge, a four-oar, two double sculls, and two single sculls, with an average membership of fifty, - or each club can seat at any one time one third of its members. This number of boats is sufficient when there are no crews in training, and as long as the barges can be used by all members; but when the crews commence going out in the afternoon, then the number of boats is too small. Unless one happens to have rowed before, and has some skill in handling the oar, - unless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

...that old Winter has barred the Charles alike to the single-scull and the six-oar, driven even the most enthusiastic lover of baseball from Jarvis, and made foot-ball a chill pleasure, we look around us for other means of keeping our muscles firm and our joints supple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXING. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

...TRIAL will be made very soon of two six-oar crews, to aid the selection of men for the University crew. A similar trial is to be made next spring, we understand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

...double race there were two entries: F. S. Watson and F. R. Appleton, and C. W. Wetmore and W. Hartwell, all of '75. Hartwell had the misfortune to break his rudder near the start, and the other men came in first with a very pretty stroke. The six-oar race was a very good one. Only two crews pulled, and these kept well together throughout the race. The men in the winning boat were: Belmont, '74; cox.; Wheeler, s.; Harding, '74; Wetmore, '75; Hall, '76; F. R. Appleton, '75; Hartwell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RIVER. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

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