Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opportunity to bat, and the best bowlers should bowl to them. The present system of letting everybody bowl, even those who only can throw the ball, should be done away with. After the eleven have had the necessary amount of practice, the unsuccessful candidates and beginners should have their turn...
...Winston, 130 pounds; stroke, W. R. Crawford, 126 pounds. The others, the "heavy weights," were: Bow, G. Kingsley, 186 pounds; No. 2, A. Colgate, 197 pounds; No. 3, W. R. Kingsley. 185 pounds; stroke, H. S. Ames, 246 pounds. The race was three-quarters of a mile, with a turn. The little men got a good start, owing to the heavy weight crew catching crabs. Capt. Peters, of the foot ball team, who weighs nearly 200 pounds, was the latter's coxswain, and he saved the race for his crew by cutting out the light-weights at the turn, thus...
Beckwith, '88, S. of Mines, overreaches, and so is almost always behind time. He does not start on his recover quite soon enough; does not feather long enough; gets his oar over too much on the catch, but lets it turn back, just before going into the water, which makes the blades enter the water clumsily...
...lead, and rowing 36. The latter soon separated from her rivals, hugging the shore and dropping her stroke to 34. A beautiful struggle for the lead now began between the three other boats, '86 holding it for a few rods and then yielding it to '87, who, in turn succumbed to '89. At the sluiceway '87 had the lead with the freshmen one and '86 two or three lengths behind. The '88 crew seemingly far in the rear, kept smoothly on near the shore. '89 continued her fast stroke, but '88 and '87 dropped...
...work now covered by prizes is so broad that an opportunity is offered men of very different tastes to turn their work and talents to an honorable and pecuniary advantage...