Word: straightaway
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...race for the single scull championship of the University will be rowed Wednesday, November 11, at 5 o'clock. The course will be a one-mile straightaway above the Newell Club House. If there are more than four or five entries, the race will be rowed in heats. A suitable cup will be awarded to the winner of the event. Entries should be addressed to R. Foster, Weld...
Although some shortening of the track was made necessary because of the new stadium, the straightaway 220-yard course has been extended at the north end so that in spite of the change, the track is in excellent condition...
...length of the race, the generally accepted distance for amateur sculling races is one and one-half miles with a turn, that is, three-quarters of a mile straightaway and back. The preparation for this race would then be practice for the regatta held by the Metropolitan Rowing Association on June 17 each year. That it might be a preparation for this larger contest, the cup should be rowed for during the first two weeks of June or earlier. Thus at least three or four days might intervene between the Carroll Cup race and the Metropolitan event. A.W. STEVENS...
From now on, all the track candidates will practice daily on Soldiers Field, the morning squad from 11 to 1, the afternoon squad from 4 to 6. Considering the earliness of the season, the track is in excellent condition. The straightaway has been recently re-covered with line cinders taken from the old Holmes Field track...
...crews settled down on the straightaway, Mr. Higginson coached the first crew almost continuously. They kept the stroke at 30, but showed little improvement. At Harvard Bridge the relative positions of the two boats were unchanged. From here to the finish the second crew fell to pieces, getting out of time and becoming unsteady. The first crew was thus able to gain seven seconds in the last mile and most of this gain was made in the last quarter, when the greater endurance of the heavier crew began to tell. The time was slow, 19m., 13s. The net gain...