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...track, and Equipoise at his shoulder and trying to pass him at the same time, had to swing out even further. For a moment, it looked as though the two horses were glued together: as though by shouldering Equipoise, Gallant Sir might throw him off stride and keep his half-length lead. While the crowd roared at the rail, Equipoise got back to his stride, drew even, then ahead two full lengths at the wire...
...slight breeze was behind the boats at the start of the varsity race. Washington, pulling at 40 strokes a minute to California's 43, was a few feet ahead after 50 yd., a half-length at the half-mile, three lengths at the halfway mark, where both crews were stroking evenly in the low thirties, a mile and a half from the finish. Hopelessly outclassed, without even waterlogged seats for an alibi, California's crew pulled bravely on at a stroke that went up to 42 in the last half-mile. At the roaring, whistling finish, they were...
...crew on the starting line last week was another California crew, undefeated in a season of college rowing and in the Olympic trials. Eighty thousand people along the Long Beach course saw an unforgettable finish. Coming into the last 200 metres, the bow of the California shell was a half-length ahead of Canada and England but it was even with the bow of the Italian boat. Dressed in blue shirts, pulling with the same kind of quick, hard-catching stroke that coach Ky Ebright teaches his Californians, the Italians made their bow move out ahead. With 100 metres...
Groton, May 6-Nosing the second Freshman crew by a half-length at the finish of a mile course, the Groton eight, rowing a smooth, long beat, registered 5 minutes, 13 seconds on the Nashua river. The Harvard shell, which was retrieving a lead of more than a length at the time of the sprint, showed power but lacked coordination...
Oxford still had a chance at the mile post. Ranking, 97-lb. Cambridge coxswain, steered too close to shore and lost a half-length. Two miles farther, the Oxford boat rolled in choppy water. Stroke Holdsworth grazed the surface with his oar. At Barnes Bridge where the Thames narrows near Mortlake, Cambridge was three lengths in front. Brocklebank, watching the Oxford shell, eased down his stroke. When his boat slid over the line a good two lengths in front, Stroke Brocklebank slipped his feet out of the slides, waved his legs at the crowd...