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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...eight-oar race to decide the championship left unsettled at the Metropolitan regatta on Monday was rowed off last evening. It was won by the Riversides by about ten feet after a very exciting race. The Shawmuts failed to appear at the start. The Weld crew led past the Harvard Bridge down to the three-quarter mile mark; then the Riversides forged slightly ahead and kept their lead to the end, although a spurt by the Weld crew cut it down to ten feet at the finish. The Weld crew was somewhat put out in the last quarter...
...Weld Boat Club entered two crews in the Metropolitan regatta yesterday. In the junior double-scull shells the Weld crew was the only one entered. They made a start and were awarded the race. In the eight-oared race three crews started - the Weld, the Riverside, and the Shawmut clubs. After rowing a quarter of a mile the Weld crew, being in the Riverside's water, the latter rowed across the bow of the former. The Weld crew stopped rowing, and several of the men held up their hands for a protest, which was not considered by the referee...
...evening the Cornell crew rowed a series of races against an untrained scratch crew made up of members of the Henley Club. In the Cornell boat were Matthews, Bentley, Roe, Freeborn, Shape, Hall, Louis, H. Hamilton(stroke). On the way down the Americans had the lead, but at the start, the boats were even. The Henley crew then immediately began to draw away, and were a quarter of a length ahead by the time they had pulled sixteen strokes, when they stopped rowing, having broken a rowlock string...
...second start was made after the damage had been repaired and the Henley boat again secured a lead. Cornell, however, soon showed in front, but Henley again drew up about level, and both crews ceased rowing, having covered a distance of a quarter of a mile. The boats were put about and the crews rowed from Bushey Gate to Henley Bridge against the stream. The Henley crew took a length's start, rowing 36 strokes to the minute. Cornell, pulling 46, overtook them in about two hundred yards, when Henley again began to draw away. The rowing of the Americans...
...start Foote won everything but then weakened and Howland gained confidence from his antagonist's poor play. He drove the balls prettily along the side lines, just out of Foote's reach. The two last sets were as signal victories for Howland as the first had been for Foote. Howland is now entitled to hold the championship cup for one year...