Word: finishing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cambridge about the last of June, and will be in Springfield for a week or two's practice on the Connecticut before the race, which will probably be rowed over the same course as last year, although there has been some talk of changing the course for one to finish farther up the river...
...pause before the catch, commencing with No. 6. In trying to get the hard catch, the crew, as was pointed out in the last Crimson, are apt to expend all their strength in banging the water at the beginning of the stroke, and then make a weak and slovenly finish. The firm grip on the water, instantly got on the full reach, should be followed clear through by a good, vigorous, even stroke. The hardest part of this stroke, unless the man makes a jerk in the middle, must be at the beginning, because there the greatest resistance is obtained...
...Stroke fail on the catch, and the finish is slovenly throughout the boat. There is a tendency to overreach and not to sit up straight. Nos. 2 and 3 are especially faulty in this respect, both rowing with rounded backs...
...down between his thighs, when on the full reach. Smith and W. Le Moyne have each a tendency to dip, and to bury their oars too deep in the first part of the stroke. F. Le Moyne goes too far back, and does not sit up well at the finish. Through the boat, and particularly in the forward part, the finish is poor, rather worse than the beginning; there is a tendency to sliver, to row the last part of the stroke with the blade only partly covered, and to turn the oar before it is fairly...
...past three weeks, however, he has made decided improvement. Jacobs is doing well at 7, but fails to use his arms properly. He drops his hands before taking hold, does not pull them in high enough, and has, like Brigham, a habit of sticking his elbows out at the finish...