Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...finest races of the afternoon. Wright of Harvard, who had previously won the quarter mile, ran in this, and the three other Harvard men were A. M. White, Batchelder and Corbin. The first lap was run in one minute and two seconds, when white began a quarter mile spurt, making the second lap in 59 3-5 seconds, and finished the race strongly in 2 minutes, 1 3-5 seconds. Wright of Yale took second place with Batchelder of Harvard third...
...evident to all now that Ninety-two did not care for anything but first place and this was made more manifest by an excellent spurt which she now made, rowing forty strokes to the minute, a spurt so effective that her lead was fully two lengths, five hundred feet below the bridge, and it was at about this place that the accident of the race occurred. Ninety-one and Ninety-three (a half a length behind the seniors) were both spurting, when unfortunately the senior boat-whose coxswain ever since the bridge had been steering on Ninety-three's course...
...less than half a mile from the Union Boat House and the finish line, and the juniors were far ahead of the other crews. But the senior crew at this point came over directly in front of the sophomore crew and hopelessly hampered them, making any attemps at a spurt ineffectual. The freshmen meanwhile forged slightly ahead of the sophomores who were unable to spurt with the Ninety-one crew directly in front of them, their prow touching the rudder of the Ninety-one boat. The result was that the actual finish of the crews was Ninety-two first...
...better not to try as it will not help matters. To the whole University the most gratifying feature of the race was the excellent work of the freshman crew. Notwithstanding a discouraging start the crew kept to their work pluckily, and at the finish made the best spurt of the race. If the Ninety-four crew works hard from this time until the race at New London the chances are that the freshman class will be well represented...
...Hawes '93, F. S. Pratt '94 and G. F. Taylor '94. The first quarter was done in 43 seconds when Taylor took the lead and set the pace, making each successive lap faster than the one before it. On the turn of the last lap Pratt, by a marvellous spurt, got the lead which he held to the finish, closely pressed by Hawes and Taylor in the order given. with Barron last. All the men rode within a second of the winner, and therefore broke the record. The next event, the mile walk, was won by R. S. Hale...