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...went very well, and on the row home the boat moved along especially smoothly. A change was made in the Freshman eight in the afternoon, Voorhees of the four replacing Faxon as coxswain. This crew went over the two-mile course up-stream, but was not timed. A racing start was tried, the crew going off at 38, and then the stroke was lowered to 30, being raised again to 36 at the finish. The rowing was very satisfactory and the boat spaced as well as it has this year. The University four rowed about eight miles...
...Thames on Thursday, July 1, have been completed. The four-oared race will be rowed at 10.30 o'clock from the head of the four-mile course down-stream to the Navy Yard. The Freshman race will be rowed immediately after the finish of the four-oared race, starting at the Navy Yard and finishing at the Bridge. The race between the University crews will start at 6 o'clock at the Bridge and will finish four miles up-stream...
...University baseball team will play Pennsylvania State College on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Hartford and Hicks will divide the pitching, as in the last game, and the former will probably start...
...time made by the University crew was 20 minutes, 55 seconds, which is exactly the same as that made by the Yale crew last night. The shell was towed down-stream to the start at the railroad bridge, by the "John Harvard," the members of the crew being taken in the launch. At the start the crew went off at the rate of 36 strokes to the minute, but the stroke was soon lowered to 32 and this rate was maintained until the last half-mile of the course, when it was raised gradually to 40 at the finish. Taken...
...University team will present its regular line-up as MacLaughlin has returned to second base. A new batting order will be tried this afternoon, with Simons in fourth place and Aronson in eighth. Hartford and Hicks will probably share the pitching, both today and Saturday. The former will start the game this afternoon. The practice yesterday and the day before went smoother than for some time and the team should be able to play its best game from...