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Throughout the practice the whole crew seemed to have considerable difficulty in controlling their slides. The blade work was very smooth and the men pulled together in splendid form, and on the trip upstream the boat spaced out almost to the rudder posts. They did not do so well on the row down-stream against the tide, however, and at times the shell checked perceptibly. Physically the men are in very good condition, although they are not trained very fine. They are all able to follow Tappan quite well, as was shown yesterday, when he raised the stroke to about...
...meet at 4 o'clock in the Stadium, with a combination team made up of representatives of several of the Boston preparatory schools. As far as can be ascertained the Freshmen should win by a large margin, for the team is especially strong this year as proved by the splendid showing made in the class games. The Freshmen will be unusually strong in the field events and should also win most of the places in the distance runs. The preparatory schools, however, have some very fast runners in the sprints and should secure practically all the points...
...most closely contested races were the mile run and the 440-yard run. H. F. Hadden, Jr., '09 with a splendid spurt passed Minot and Miller in the mile and finished strongly about 4 yards ahead of the former. In the quarter-mile the Freshmen won all three places...
...broad jump with a jump of 21 feet 4 inches. The high jump was a tie between R. G. Harwood '09, G. E. Roosevelt '09, and R. E. Somers '08, at 5 feet 9 inches; in the jump-off for first prize Harwood won first place with a splendid jump of 5 feet 10 1-4 inches, which is better than either of last year's records in the handicap or class games. Roosevelt won the toss-up for second place...
...both the 50-yard and 100-yard swims, doing the former in 27 1-5s., and the latter in 1m. 3s. He also helped to break the intercollegiate record for the 800-foot relay race, in which after swimming behind Withington most of the distance, he made a splendid spurt in the last lap, and finished...