Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yards dash. In the first heat Storrs, R. L. S., took the lead from the start and won in 54 2-5 sec.; Cook, W. A., second and Reynolds, Fall River, third. the second heat was more exciting. The men started well bunched, and on the back stretch W. S. Davis, W. H. S., spurted and took the lead, which he held till the finish. As the men came into the home stretch Deveneck, B. and N., spurted and took second place, but could not win from Davis. Brewer, Hop., ran just hard enough to make third place. Time...
...final heat of the 440 yards dash Brewer had things all his own way and won by 10 yards in 53 2-5 sec. beating his own record by 4-5 sec. Second place went to Storrs by a pretty spurt on the very stretch. Reynolds took third...
Yesterday afternoon the practice race which had been arranged with the Bowdoin crew was rowed over the two mile course used in the class races. The day was wet and cold and a stiff easterly breeze caused very bad water on the exposed stretches. At 4.40 p. m. the two crews succeeded in getting into satisfactory positions and Mr. Richards the referee gave the word to start. Both crews caught the water almost at the same moment, and Bowdoin started off with 40 strokes to the minute, Harvard rowing 36. The difference between the two styles of rowing was very...
...Harvard coxswain steered a wretched race, narrowly escaping a foul with Bowdoin above the bridge and swerving in widely from the course on the home stretch...
Some interesting practice was done by Mott Haven men on Holmes field yesterday afternoon. J. P. Lee again broke the world's record for the 220 yds. low hurdle race. Fearing ran down the stretch beside the hurdles and set the pace. The time for the first half of the distance was 12 1-5 secs., and the final time 24 4-5 secs., breaking the former record, made by Lee at the intercollegiate games last year, by nine-twentieths of a second. Lee ran in beautiful form and found time to speak on the way to the time keeper...