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...pace than their opponents, pulled rapidly ahead and beyond the half-mile mark had half a length's advantage. Brown kept the stroke up to 34 and at the Harvard Bridge open water showed between the two shells, but once under the arch the Junior boat put on a spurt which ate up half a length of their rivals' lead and gave it what looked like an equal chance for victory...
Rowing smoothly and with length in their strokes and fighting for the lead all the way down the mile and seven-eighths course in the Basin, the first and second University crews came into the last stretch of their race yesterday, practically a dead heat; a final spurt sent the second eight across the finish line about a quarter of a length in the lead...
...seconds began the draw up Just before the bridge the two boats were almost even, the seconds rowing a little higher, around 32 and forging ahead by inches. But Amory's chief bid for victory was still to come. In the shadow of the bridge he put on a spurt and when the two eights appeared on the other side the seconds were a quarter of a length in the lead and widening the margin...
Meanwhile Brown had been holding his crew to a slightly lower stroke, and when the seconds dropped the beat after their spurt, the first eight began to creep up again. All the way down the lower Basin the two crews held their own with a slight margin favoring the seconds. A hundred yards from the finish only a few feet separated the crews as the two coxswains called for the final spurts. The thirds finished about four lengths behind...
...Tiger oarsmen after one of the most stirring finishes provided by the regatta. The three boats were nearly on a par for the greater part of the course, with the Crimson and Princeton battling for first place, but the Orange and Black eight came back with a driving spurt at the finish which gave it a quarter boat length's margin across the line. Navy finished in third place, a length astern the University shell...