Word: oars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...RACEbegan. All four boats started well together, and for the first few strokes neither had any advantage. On the third stroke Brown, of Harris' eight, snapped his oar, and thus put his crew out of the race. In the first fifty yards Colony and Mumford began to draw ahead, and when the crews were abreast of the boat-house it could be seen that the finish would result in a lapping race. At this point Mumford was leading Colony by half a length, with Harris a good third, and Porter last, but lapping Harris. All the crews spurted desperately over...
...does the clown in a circus. It is to be hoped, however, that the eighty-nine crews will not be wrought to such a pitch of enthusiasm as to attempt to drive their boats through the sea wall, as did the freshman crews of last year. The four oar and single working-boat races are generally of but little interest, and it is probable that the excitement caused by the victory of the CRIMSON crew last year will not be equalled for some years to come...
...stroke; does not row smoothly; careless on the recover. 6: rowed in '87 freshman crew; has improved greatly during the year; still rows short, and meets at the finish; faces his blade over more than the others. 7: captain; rowed in '83 and '84 university crews; most experienced oar in the boat; rows smoothly; his finish is sometimes weak. Stroke: rowed in the '84 class crew; is a good stroke; is slow sometimes in sliding forward on the recover; pulls out at the finish, and has tendency to meet...
...give below individual criticism of the men. Bow: rows oar out at finish; catches ahead; has good body movement, except a little drop at the catch, and does not swing back too far. 2: a strong man; rows pretty well; over-reaches somewhat and fizzles a little on the finish; his chief fault is that he does not pay attention to time or to the boat. 3: very hard worker, but gets in work at the wrong time; does not get weight on to his stretcher until half through his stroke; has bad jerk at finish; slumps badly at finish...
...contestants or spectators. At 1.15 the draw swung back and the junior crew shot through the opening, when, to the surprise of all, it was seen that the two centre slides in the shell were unoccupied. Inquiry elicited the information that Cabot had been obliged to give up his oar by the advice of Dr. Sargent, enforced by an order from President Eliot. As this state of affairs was made known to Captain Latham only a few hours before the race, it was impossible to meet the emergency, since the substitutes were not sufficiently accustomed to rowing in a shell...