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...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 the New London course. The banks are steep, so that the steamers go close to either shore, and the current is unusually even in all parts. As for convenience to spectators, the course ends within five minutes' walk from the city. Besides the Norwich and New London lines of steamers and the tugs belonging to the harbor, any number of steamers can be chartered from New York to follow...
...start the bottom showed itself last year, and yet last year was not unusually dry. This was in the direct course of the boats, and although no boat actually ran into it during the race, yet some boats had to go over the shoals around it. Besides, the current is very uneven in different parts of the river. The channel is never over one third, and often only one fourth, of the river's breadth. Out of the channel the current is very much weaker than...
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 is an easy piece of calculation to see that in five minutes the six would be carried four hundred and forty feet ahead by the difference in current. If the five outside of the current could make up the difference and keep even with the others until...
...will be six miles away, and there is nothing but a carriage-road leading to the lake. There is no steamer, but just such a little teapot as one of those at Springfield this year, which can never keep up with the crews. It has deep water and no current, which are great advantages; but, considering that it is so far out of the way of the New England colleges, we are led to look back again to New England waters...
...favor against six for our opponents; but Yale now began to pick up fast, and scored five and three in the next two innings to nothing and one for us. White had changed positions with Perry, but, beside frightening the enemy from stealing second base, could not change the current of luck, which seemed setting in, in favor of Yale. At the beginning of the last inning we stood two runs ahead, and failed to score; Yale came to the bat in good spirits, while our men showed a nervousness which they rarely exhibit in the field. The first striker...