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Hayes fumbled several times again, a fault that ought to have been corrected long ago. His trying to kick goals was exceedingly poor, though perhaps excusable owing to his lack of practice in this work...
Wadsworth at quarter on the first played a better game than Beale and Borden. His chief fault is that he is slow in getting the ball in play...
...flag, and succeeded in gaining a few seconds, which they held to the three-and-a-hald-mile flag. Thereafter Yale continued to pull away steadily, notwithstanding Harvard's desperate spurt toward the finish. An occasional break between four and five in the Harvard boat was about the only fault to be seen in either crew. The winning time was not fast considering the conditions. Both crews rowed in excellent form from start to finish, Yale excelling in blade work and Harvard in body work...
Goeckel made three of the seven hits for Pennsylvania. Highlands was most effective when there were men on bases. He corrected his old fault of delivering the ball too quickly. Eleven Pennsylvania men were left on bases...
There was a change in the make-up of the 'varsity crew on Tuesday. One fault especially noticeable has been a strong tendency to sink the boat at the finish of the stroke, and this trouble was traced to Lewis at bow. He is probably the strongest man at the quarters, and when he rows his best is very effective, but he has a bad tendency to hang and settle at the finish, a fault that has stuck to him during the three years he has rowed, and which he seems unable to overcome for more than a few strokes...