Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman crew was made yesterday, when Wood, who has been at 7 in the second boat, took E. Cutler's position at bow in the first. The crew rowed upstream and had several brushes with the University second eight, in one of which, after a half-mile stretch, the Freshmen drew ahead by a length and a half...
There is good skating today on Hammond's Pond, at Chestnut Hill; on Little Mystic and Wedge Ponds, at Winchester; and on the Arlington and Brookline Reservoirs. The skating is good on Spy Pond, at Arlington, but there is a stretch of open water along the eastern shore. At the Boston Public Garden the ice is in fair condition...
Philadelphia. May 26.--The Freshman and four-oar crews arrived in Philadelphia early this morning. They rowed an easy stretch of three miles and practiced racing starts this afternoon. The work was light, but the crews rowed well...
Yesterday afternoon, as its final practice before the race with Cornell this afternoon, the University crew rowed an easy stretch upstream from the Newell boathouse. The boat had plenty of life and drive and went well between strokes. With the exception of Pleasonton, whose work was at times rather crude, the men rowed in good form...
...boat, started at a racing pace a length in the lead. The Freshman began with a high stroke of over 40, and gained three-quarters of length on the University boat. During the last quarter of a mile, however, the University eight made a spurt, and in the final stretch drew up rapidly on its opponents, the Freshman eight finishing a little over a length in the lead...