Word: slides
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Slade. Is slow at full reach in getting pressure and as a consequence kicks his slide out. He hurries his draw...
...Mills, 176 lbs., is apt to be slow and fails to get down to the water on the catch, is liable to be behind, and rushes slide...
...Simms, 167 lbs., is not regular in his stroke, swings back too far, and is too slow on the finish; does not slide far enough...
...Huyck, stroke, 172 lbs., Polk, substitute, 171 lbs.; Holmes, substitute, 159 lbs.; Sedgewick, 169 lbs.; Lay, 171 lbs.; Tishel, 168 lbs.; and Pope. 156 lbs. The average weight of the crew is 166 lbs. Its chief faults are: Poor time, slowness in starting the slide, at the beginning of the recover, a tendency to bury oars at the finish, to kick out the slides on the catch, to buck and a general carelessness in regard to the work...
Jones rows in good form but he has not snap enough at the catch and like 2 and 3 is too quick with the slide...