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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Light Practice for Crews Yesterday...
...after the first hundred yards lowered it to 34. This pace was kept up until just before the finish when the stroke went up again to 38. No time was given out but Coach Wray expressed great satisfaction at the work of the crew. The other crews had light work this morning...
Yale Crew Quarters, Gales Ferry, Conn., June 21, 1910.--All the crews had light work this morning. The university and freshman eights rowed one mile up-stream and tried several racing starts. On the return to the boathouse the university eight gave the freshmen two lengths start and passed them in three-quarters of a mile. The university fours also tried some racing starts and covered two miles in all. At six o'clock this evening the five crews rowed down to the Navy Yard in short stretches. Coach Kennedy sent the crews back to the boathouse in one stretch...
Harvard Crew Quarters, New London, Conn., June 20, 1910. -- A continuation of Saturday's light practice was the order of events this morning. During the afternoon all the crews were put through some hard work. The members of the University eight were taken downstream to the railroad bridge at New London in the "John Harvard" with the shell in tow. About six o'clock they started back over the four-mile course. Hooper rowed 5, having been put in for today's practice in Bacon's place. It is expected that Bacon will have quite recovered from his indisposition...
Yale Crew Quarters, Gales Ferry, Conn., June 20, 1910.--Both the Yale crew squads were given light practice today. All the crews went up-stream for their morning and afternoon work. The university crew rowed less than two miles during the morning and devoted some time to the practice of racing starts. The freshman eight and all three fours merely rowed a mile up stream and back to the boathouse. During the afternoon the work was a little more severe. In a short race between the three fours, the university four finished first, the second four next, and the freshman...