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...mile run J. C. Grew '02 got the lead at the turn for the three-quarter mile. On the back stretch F. S. Buffum '04 took the lead, holding it to the end. About 20 yards from the tape J. W. Foster '03 on a spurt passed Grew and finished second; Buffum won by 4 yards...
...pace the men, although disqualified for a place. Colwell and E. W. Mills '02 started off in the lead, kept continually drawing away from the bunch and finished a good quarter of a lap ahead. In spite of the fast pace set by Colwell, Mills made a good spurt at the finish...
...crews neared the Harvard bridge the first Weld gained rapidly on the Newell crews, passing the second Newell and tieing the first Newell. By a sharp spurt at the bridge, however, the first Newell again got the lead, with the first Weld and second Newell half a length behind, tied for second place. A length and a half to the rear, the third Weld led the third Newell by a length...
...lead over Lightner to about ten yards, holding it until he entered the stretch where Lightner on a sprint closed up the distance and finished only a yard behind. Willis took the third quarter and made the fastest time for Harvard. On the back stretch by a remarkable spurt he passed Hunter of Yale and maintained the lead to the end, finishing about four yards ahead of the Yale man. This lead was increased by Rust, the fourth relay, to eight yards. Long of Yale caught up with him on the back stretch and the two came round the turn...
...attempted to pass Smith, who increased his speed and finished two yards in the lead. From then on Columbia was practically out of the race. Gill started the second relay for Pennsylvania and Adams for Harvard. The two remained together almost throughout the half-mile. Gill, however, by a spurt finished almost fifteen yards ahead of Adams. DuBois, who was pitted against Pennsylvania's fastest man, Klahr, was unable to diminish the lead so that when Behr started on the relay for Harvard he was fully twenty yards behind Orton of Pennsylvania. Behr could not gain any on Orton...