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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- As all who saw the class races must have observed, three tug-boats, the referee's boat and two others, passed ahead of '86 and '88 some distance from the finish. The inevitable result was that those two crews were very considerably impeded. Such a thing ought never to have been allowed. An interference of that sort might determine the order of the two last crews, which is not a matter of entire indifference. In this case it apparently did not have that effect, but such an interference must always have the effect of making it still...
Will the gentleman who took my overcoat from the referee's tug at the Union Boat-house, yesterday, please notify me. John L. Morse, 32 Holyoke House...
...length and a half to the good, in 11 m. 13 1-2s., followed by '85 in 11m. 24 1 2s; '88, in 12m. 29 1-2s.; and '86 in 13m. Both these latter boats narrowly escaped being swamped by the swell from the referee's tug, which had steered across the course ahead of the two last crews...
...soon as the crews have passed through the draw, a long whistle will be sounded from the referee's tug as the signal for the crews to get into line. A rope will be stretched across the river, to which four row boats will be moored at a distance of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach...
...referee's tug will take on board the holders of tickets at the West Boston draw-bridge, on Cambridge street, near Charles street...