Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual fall regatta of the Weld boat club was held yesterday afternoon under excellent weather conditions. The course for all the races was a third of a mile straightaway from the first turn of the river above the Boylston street bridge to a point about a hundred yards from the bridge...
...crew No. 3, H. M. Adams '98, captain, was next; crew No. 2, D. M. Goodrich '98, captain, followed, and crew No.4, Higginson 1900, captain, had the outside course where the current ran strongest, but where the sea was especially rough. The course lay from the Union Boat House, straightaway up stream a distance of a mile, finishing two hundred yards this side of Harvard Bridge...
...strong wind greatly interfered with the race on the Charles River, Saturday afternoon, between the Weld four-oared barges. The course was a mile straightaway, extending from the Union Boat Club to the sluice beyond Harvard Bridge. Savage's crew drew the inside position next the wall; Marsh's was in number two, Hawes's in three, and Morrill's on the outside. The barge stroked by Hawes 1900, started off first and held the lead the whole way, crossing the line a length ahead of Morrill's crew. The time of the race was 7 minutes 56 seconds...
...have been working steadily for the last few days on the track and grounds at Holmes Field, getting them in readiness for the class games which will be held next Saturday. The side-walks that were across the track have been taken up so as to leave the straightaway 220 yards stretch open, and the spaces for jumping have been raked and rolled. A blue-book for entries has been placed in the office at the gymnasium...
...held at the Field on Monday, May 2, under the rules of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America. The handicapping will be done by an official of the A. A. U. The track is a quarter of a mile, with banked turns and a 220 yards straightaway...