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...Morse then read his report as chairman of the Boat-house Committee, stating that out of fifty-one rests, forty are now occupied, from the rent of which the club has realized a considerable sum, as it did also from the auction sale of unclaimed boats last spring...
These very satisfactory reports having been accepted, Mr. Goodwin, as chairman of the Executive Committee, stated that the debt on the boat-house, which, at the beginning of the year amounted to three thousand dollars, had been reduced to six hundred dollars, through the exertions of Mr. Dana and the receipts from Mr. Godfrey Morse's theatricals in Boston. From the treasurer's account it was further shown that a debt of five hundred dollars incurred in '71 for boats, etc., had been entirely liquidated...
Also to the Williams Boat Club for the accommodation kindly furnished us in their boat-house...
...boats entered for the double-scull race, one manned by Wetmore and Appleton, '75, the other by Bacon and Weld, '76. The first boat drew the inside and took the lead, which it continued to hold to the end of the race, winning by about twenty-seven seconds...
...first with the following crew, Wheeler, '74, str., Bacon, '76, Silsbee, '74, Sanger, '74, Burry, '74, Riggs, '76, Swift, '74, cox. The second crew were Wetmore, '75, str., Appleton '75, Goodrich, '74, Harding, '74, Weld, '76, Prince, '75, Devens, '74, cox. This race was quite exciting. Wheeler's boat drew the inside, but Wetmore gave such a telling stroke as to keep a slight lead up to the boat-house; but in rounding the curve his crew lost, enabling Wheeler's crew to turn the stake first. Despite a tendency to exchange oars at the stake, the boats were impeded...