Word: oar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Weld four-oar race which took place Wednesday was a performance which reflects much credit upon the Weld Boat Club, and offers additional proof, if any be necessary, of the club's practical value as a training school. In these scrub contests, furnishing racing experience and an incentive to men of all degrees of rowing ability to make use of it, lies one of the most promising features of the present status of Harvard rowing...
...work of the 'varsity crew squad consists at present of some pair-oar work usually followed by rowing in eight-oared barges. Yesterday morning the following men were taken out in pairs and coached by Mr. Lehmann: Byrd and C. P. Adams, Blake and Dobyns, Coleman, Higginson and DuBois. In the afternoon two crews were formed to row in barges. In crew No. 2, Mr. Willis rowed at three in place of C. P. Adams who is slightly injured. The make up of the two crews was as follows...
...Lehmann had a few of the candidates out on the river yesterday afternoon for tubbing practice. Both he and Mr. Willis were in their boating clothes, one going in at stroke while the other acted as coxswain. Thus all the men had the advantage of rowing behind a finished oar. Willis usually rowed at stroke, the other men going in at bow, and the Leander man's rowing was in marked contrast to that of any of the others in its great smoothness and ease. Willis's blade work is perfect, and in every way he is a model...
...matter of forming a boating assocition is again being agitated at Princeton. Three four-oar boats were presented to the University last spring...
...Perkins's boat has been rowing for three weeks with its present make up and has that advantage over the other crews. Biddle is a good stroke, and Perkins at 3 backs him up with a powerful oar. Brown, No. 2, is rowing a bit roughly and Wood at bow does not seem to use all his strength to advantage. The chief faults of the crew are lack of leg drive and slowness in shooting the hand away on the recover...