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...Freshman crew was defeated by one and one-half lengths in the race with the Stone's School crew yesterday over the one and one-half mile course. The time of 7 minutes 52 seconds was slow considering the favorable conditions. The Stone's crew took the lead at the start and at Harvard Bridge had a lead of three-quarters of a length. Although the Freshmen spurted several times, the school eight continued to gain throughout. Both crews were well used up at the finish. The Freshmen rowed a long steady stroke, about 32 to the minute, but they...
...brush of about a mile and three-eighths between the second and third crews the former was beaten by nearly four lengths of open water. The second crew picked up the third at a point about half a mile below Harvard Bridge and the two crews rowed to Longwood Bridge. At the start the third crew was a length behind the second, but once through the bridge gained steadily up to the finish...
...attack has been greatly improved. The stick-work, however, is weak at critical moments and the team-play is still rather ragged. On the whole the chances slightly favor the home team. D. P. Penhallow '03 will act as referee and the halves will be twenty minutes in length...
...University crews were out on the river as usual yesterday afternoon. A fair amount of improvement, as a result of the work of the past week, was apparent. The first University, in a mile brush yesterday with the crew of the Union Boat Club, was beaten by about a length and a quarter in an upstream race from the Union Boat, Club to the Harvard Bridge. The time was five minutes flat. In the order of the first, the only change was that Bowditch rowed 7 in place of Duffy, who is sick. The second and third crews took only...
...work of the crew has not been especially encouraging. Scholarship conditions kept three strong starboard oars from the Annapolis race, so that Yale only won by half a length. The crew, which was composed of men who had never rowed in an intercollegiate race before, was as follows: stroke, Blagden; 7, Miller; 6, Fish; 5, Bloomer; 4, H. N. Scott; 3, Ferguson; 2, Whitney; bow, Phipps...