Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...including the coxswain, were in last year's freshman boat. Kelley, at No. 3 rowed bow in last year's university four-oar, and Weed, at stroke, rowed the same position in the gentlemen's four of two years ago. The crew rows the long, steady stroke with a slow recovery which is characteristic of Cornell crews, but the eight as yet has not shown anything above the average speed, and is far behind the University crew in racing experience and weight...
...Cornell crews went out after Harvard, and as the water had calmed down considerably by that time, the eights took a long row of about eight miles at a slow stroke...
...Saturday afternoon the Weld crew was defeated by Worcester High School in a mile and one-half race on Lake Quinsigamond by three lengths. Although the Weld crew was much heavier and stronger than Worcester, it did not have the ability to sprint and rowed a slow stroke. In the last half of the course Worcester crew away without much effort rowing about 38 to the minute. Worcester's time was 8 minutes, 27 seconds...
...seconds. The mile was another well-contested race, in which H. Guild '10 just beat out C. P. Howard '09 in the home stretch. In the two-mile, H. Y. Masten '10 established a lead at the outset, which he maintained throughout, winning in rather slow time. The performances in the field events were poor...
...Freshman baseball team won the first regular game of its schedule against Somerville High School yesterday afternoon by the score of 8 to 3. The game was slow and marred by errors on both sides. In batting, however, the Freshmen showed a marked improvement over practice...