Word: slides
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been unsettled all spring, no one combination having been used for more than a week at a time. The frequent changes have severely handicapped the crew, and their time is none to good. Individually, the men are smooth oarsmen, but they do not work together as they might. Their slide work is fair, and the boat has plenty of snap and drive...
Several experiments have been made to find a man to till Perkins's place at 3 in the Freshman boat. Whitney was tried for a few days, then Oveson was put in, and Peabody rowed that position yesterday. The Freshmen are powerful, and their slide work is good, but otherwise they still show roughness...
...Faulkner '09 at number 3 fills the seat fairly well. His slide control is inferior to the other men in the crew, but he is particularly clean in his blade work. Last year he was captain and 7 on the 1909 Freshman crew...
...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...
...over the regular mile and seven-eighths course; but the water was so rough in the basin that it was impossible to go father down. The crews then rowed upstream to the Brighton bridge and a large part of the time was devoted to slowing down the slide and finishing out the stroke...