Word: wille
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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At New London there is a course perfectly straight, according to the United States chart, for six miles, and for four miles with no part narrower than thirteen hundred feet, which is very nearly half as broad again as the start at Springfield. Also, there are no shoal places on...
Perhaps in no course will it be possible not to give advantage to some crews over others in assigning the positions, but where five crews start in a current one eighth of a mile per hour, and six others in one of nine eighths of a mile per hour, it...
With a course like that at Springfield boating will be greatly discouraged, and it is of the utmost importance to the success of rowing in America that a good course be selected this coming year, and one which will not have to be changed again; for every change causes many...
Saratoga has been mentioned, and it has no doubt great advantages, especially in hotel accommodations; but the course is three miles away from the city, and, if the race is not rowed towards the city, the finish will be six miles away, and there is nothing but a carriage-road...
As to question of smooth water, that can only be told by actual trial. Some one ought to be sent by one of the boat-clubs to try the water for four or five days in a shell, and give a report after thorough examination and personal experience, and also...