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...crews started even, both rowing about 34 to the minute. Then the excitement began. Coxswain Heard of the Junior eight called for a ten stroke sprint, and the yearlings responded with ten good ones. Heard, however, called for ten more, which put his crew a full length in the lead. The longer stroke of Coach Shaw enabled the Freshman to make up the distance--but the Seconds repeated their sprint and went into the lead again. These tactics won the race, every time the younger oarsmen came nearly even with his shell, Heard called, "Give her ten!". At the finish...
During the last ten days Coach Leader has been devoting his entire attention to preparation for this race. The morn- ing paddle has consisted of short spurts with particular emphasis upon starts. A long row features the afternoon spin on the Thames, culminating in a sprint over the mile and one-quarter course, the distance to be rowed on the Schuylkill this week...
Coach Leader of Yale is taking a task upon himself rarely assumed by a Yale coach heretofore. He will enter the Yale university crew in the Olympic trials on June 14 in Philadelphia, which means that he will change the Yale eight from a long distance crew to a sprint crew for the Olympics and back again into a long distance eight in time to row the University on June...
...less than 51 seconds. Yet it was a hard battle all the way around the track. Allen took the lead and kept it until he was within 20 yards of the finish when Bohannon and Talbot, both of whom had been sticking close at his heels, unleashed a whirlwind sprint which shoved Allen into a close third place at the finish...
Tibbetts also ran a masterly race in the two-mile, taking the lead of the long field of runners whenever he wanted it, and finally, in the last lap, uncorking a sprint which brought him around the last curve at a 440 clip and brought him to the tape 40 yards ahead of Rosenburgh, the Virginia runner, who had seemed to be pressing him earlier in the race...