Word: waters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Water charge...
...Yale-Harvard boat-race will be rowed on the Thames River, New London, Conn., Friday, June 27, at 4.30 P. M. Should rough water cause a postponement, the race will be attempted about twenty-four hours later. Copies of the BOAT-RACE BULLETIN may be obtained gratuitously as follows: New York, The World office, or Brentano's; Boston, The Advertiser office; New Haven, Gulliver's; New London, the Crocker House; Cambridge, Sever's. Applications by mail will be attended to at the Crocker House only. A second bulletin will be issued June 23, and a third on the morning...
...Water charge...
...minutes elapsed before the Harvard representative pulled up from O'Leary's boat-house and took his position at the start. Livingstone had the choice of positions, and took the east shore, which gave him little or no advantage. At 5.18 P.M. the men were started. Livingstone took the water first, and with a short, quick, but powerful stroke shot ahead of his competitor. Goddard bent to his work at the rate of 34 long, clean strokes to the minute, and at the end of the first hundred yards was on even terms with Livingstone, who had been pulling...
...boat's own water is a straight course, parallel to those of the other competing boats, from the station assigned to it at starting to the finish...