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...Mumford '25, stroking for the first time in his career, started off at a rate of about 40 strokes a minute, but soon dropped to 32, where he kept the stroke during the remainder of the course excepting the short spurt at the close. The time was 11 minutes and 10 seconds...
Although O'Neil's remarkable performance in the half-mile was the feature of the afternoon, the mile and quarter-mile were also run in fast time. Allen of Andover, coming from the rear with a wonderful spurt in the last 100 yards, captured the quarter by two yards in 51 and three-fifths seconds...
...University could secure in Saturday's crew program on the Basin. The 150-pound race was an easy affair, going to the Crimson by a length and a half, but in the final event between Union Boat Club and University B, the Unions evened honors in a stirring finish spurt, the result being a dead heat...
Crew C again demonstrated a fair margin over the Juniors in a race over the Henley yesterday, winning by one and a half lengths. It was steady rowing, combined with a timely spurt at the finish, that gave the third eight the advantage. Starting off about even, the two shells went along on even terms for a few hundred yards, but with Crew C creeping steadily to the fore and at the mile mark they were but half a length apart. Here Bradford raised the stroke, however, and added another length between Harvard bridge and the Henley flags...
Once in this position, the leaders had little trouble in keeping their advantage and the two shells see-sawed down the course, spurt answering spurt with no appreciable change in the relative positions. As Harvard bridge loomed ahead the seconds started a lrive that carried them almost abreast their opponents, but crew C was equal to the occasion, answered the challenge with a still higher stroke, and crossed the line 50 feet to the good...