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YALE CREW QUARTERS, GALES FERRY, CT., June 14, 1907.--All four of the crews rowed upstream for a mile in the morning without attempting to race. Rockwell replaced G. Auchincloss in the university shell. In the afternoon all the crews rowed downstream for four miles. With opposing wind, a favorable tide, and a slow stroke the university crew covered the distance in 23 minutes and 50 seconds. G. Auchincloss returned to the university shell in the afternoon...
...single. The wind was strong and the washboards were necessary on account of the rough water. The eight went out again in the afternoon after the four-oar practice, and rowed downstream in one stretch until opposite the two-mile mark by the Navy Yard. After a rest the shell was rowed back. The men seem gradually to be getting together better, but Faulkner was erratic in slide control, and Fish particularly slow in starting his hands away after the recovery...
Yesterday afternoon the Freshman squad held its last practice on the Charles before it leaves for New London tomorrow morning. The eight rowed in very short stretches about half-way up to the Brighton bridge. The shell went smoothly, and the work was encouraging...
...above the Union Boat Club to Longwood bridge. On the first start Mulligan, number 2 in the crew stroked by Wentworth, broke his oar. On the second start Lovering, number 3 in the same boat, broke his oar, but the other two crews continued over the course. Morgan's shell started at a very high stroke and led for a short distance, but at the end of the first quarter-mile Bacon had placed his crew a length in the lead, which was increased to four lengths at the finish. The time was 8 minutes and 26 seconds...
...race started at 6.18 o'clock. The Freshmen caught the water first and began rowing a 32 stroke to Springfield's 34. They gained slightly, but at the quarter-mile Springfield, was drawing ahead. At the Harvard bridge the Freshman coxswain had to steer so close to the other shell to avoid, a raft that Jose at 2 in the Harvard boat struck his oar against that of Hicks, Springfield's number 7, and caught a slight crab. From this point the superiority of the Springfield crew was apparent, and they finished well together, with a strong spurt...