Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gridley, 140 pounds (bow); 2, E. W. Haig, 161 lbs.; 3, P. G. S. Probert, 162 1-2 lbs.; 4, S. Swann, 188 lbs.; 5, F. E. Churchill, 190 lbs.; 6, J. C. Brown, 178 lbs.; 7, C. W. Moore, 167 lbs.; F. I. Pitman, 167 lbs. (stroke); C. Tyndal-Biscoe, 118 1-2 lbs. (cox). Average weight...
...enter a four-mile race are composed of men, who, in the preliminary class-races and in the preliminary training, have shown themselves equal to the trial. For a contest between the picked men of two colleges, a four-mile course is better than a three-mile course. The stroke rowed in such a race is less exhausting, and in every way is healthier than the stroke adopted for a three-mile course...
...Weights of this year's Oxford crew are: Bow, W.C. Blandy, 152 pounds; 2, L. Stock, 157; 3, A.G. Schott, 158 1-2; 4, G.H. Carter, 179; 5, H.H. Walround, 186 1-2; 6, R.W. Taylor, 183; 7, D.H. McLean, 182 1-4; and stroke, W.D. Curry, 139-making an average of 167 1-8 pounds...
...following sentiments appear: "Park College wants the raw materials with which to rebuild its recently burnt building-the boys will do the work. Yale cultivates rowing and produces oarsmen. Park cultivates skilled and useful industry, and produces self-reliant preachers, businessmen and farmers. The one understands the "Oxford stroke," the other the business stroke. The one will stop on a strand. The other will only stop long enough on the mountain top of success to get a good view of the world, when he will take wing-Excelsior...
...stroke used in their practice up to the present time by the Oxford University crew averages from twenty-eight to twenty-nine to the minute...