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...Newell. At the start the Second Weld got the lead and kept it to the end. The Second Newell coxswain steered far over to the Cambridge shore, thereby losing much distance, and the coxswains of the two third crews also steered erratically. The second Weld won easily by a length and a half, followed by the Third Weld. The two Newell crews were a length further in the rear, with the Second Newell slightly in the lead...
...three, and Cunningham took Phillips's seat at two. On the way back, the two eights took the mile and seven-eighths stretch. At Harvard bridge Bullard's crew had a slight lead, but going somewhat out of the course to keep near the launch, finished over a length behind Ayer's crew...
...brush over the mile and seven-eighths course on Saturday, Ayer's crew held the lead for a mile and a half, but became ragged in the last half mile and finished over a length behind Bullard's crew. Both crews were very unsteady. In a short spurt, just before going into the boat house, both crews ran the stroke up to about 38 and finished even...
...crews neared the Harvard bridge the first Weld gained rapidly on the Newell crews, passing the second Newell and tieing the first Newell. By a sharp spurt at the bridge, however, the first Newell again got the lead, with the first Weld and second Newell half a length behind, tied for second place. A length and a half to the rear, the third Weld led the third Newell by a length...
...half mile from the finish the first four crews were almost even with a slight advantage to the first Newell and second Weld. Then the second Weld spurted, passed the first Newell, and led by half a length. Fifteen strokes from the finish the first Weld overhauled the first Newell, only being beaten three-quarters of a length by the second Weld. The shells of the first and second crews of both clubs were overlapping at the finish. The third crews finished two lengths of open water behind the second Newell, the third Weld winning by only a few feet...