Word: shell
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boat began to sink and the water to penetrate into the middle compartment. Sherman, who was bow-oar, at once reported the state of the case to Captain Hooker; he promptly urged the men to pull strongly and steadily, and headed the boat for the nearest shore. But the shell began to fill rapidly, and the men leaped into the water, Cameron unable to swim and seizing Sherman's neck. With extreme difficulty Sherman avoided being pulled under, and, turning about sought to grasp. Cameron; but the swift current had separated them, and he looked in vain for Cameron...
...time of the six-oar crews was astonishingly fast, being it is said more than a minute faster than the fastest class-crew shell time, and yet the crews rowed in laps twenty-six inches broad and carried coxswains. In taking the time, there were two stop-watches used, and one made the time about a minute longer than that given above; but the referee decided the official time according to the most reliable...
...hoped that next spring the first-crew race will be opened to shells with no allowance to laps, and that the clubs will each own and enter a shell...
...time made at the Cornell Spring Races was two miles in twelve minutes and fifteen seconds, by a six rowing in a shell. The Hobart College Nine beat the Cornell Nine twenty-five to twenty-three in seven innings. The score was kept only of outs and runs. On the whole, we should infer that the Cornell students have yet something to learn in base-ball, if in nothing else...
...Shell. - Otis, Str.; James, 2d; Yznaga, 3d; Thayer, Bow. And a Holyoke Four not yet chosen. Wiley, '77, has entered the single-scull race, and James and Wiley the double-scull...