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Matthews Six, - Stroke, 150 lbs.; 2, 180; 3, 185; 4, 160; 5, 170; bow, 159. Port side, 505; starboard, 499. Cox., 114. Total weight...
Weld Six. - Stroke, 165 lbs.; 2, 160; 3, 161: 4, 160; 5, 153; bow, 160. Port side, 479; starboard, 480. Cox., 125. Total weight...
...these crews left their stake ahead of the other two; but Matthews could no longer hold her own, and the Weld men forced their boat ahead. At the other stake Holyoke turned inside, and Holworthy so quickly after her as to strike her bow, when half round, against the starboard side of Holyoke. The delay was momentary, and Holyoke got away, making some two or three lengths. Now Holworthy pulled after her, gained, and when nearly even with her made a spurt which was not stopped until she had taken Holyoke's water and come much nearer Matthews. Another spurt...
...until, at the mile and a half point, she had lapped the Columbia boat. According to the account of our crew, Yale, who had meanwhile made several attempts to pass Harvard, which put the Harvard rudder in great danger of being disabled, now spurted; and, drawing up on the starboard side, managed to obtain a lead of some four or five feet, when the boats collided, and stopped rowing; the Yale stroke oar resting against the starboard waist outrigger of Harvard. The Harvard boat being thus held back, her captain ordered the starboard stroke to pull, which...