Word: stakingly
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...staked his whole life on her, and lost the glorious stake...
...poor, and the number of fouls from the beginning to the end have been innumerable. If crews from the clubs only were allowed to enter the race, it strikes us the race would be more exciting. The danger of fouling can be entirely done away with by having two stake-boats instead of one, and by having the races rowed in heats. The rowing also might be made better by informing the captains of the time of the race a week beforehand, in order that the crews might have a little practice together...
...advises, too, going back to turning races, fouling being made impossible by each boat having its own stake, and by having twenty feet fenced off by buoys between the two courses...
...show, but an honorable struggle for victory, the interest, being undisturbed by "side-shows," should also be concentrated on the final result. And, too, the steady, straightaway pull of four miles is a race in which chance is far less likely to enter than in a race where a stake-boat must be turned. In such a race, although the separate stakes and the buoying remove the possibility of two crews fouling one another, the danger of fouling the stake is not wanting...
...stake Holworthy was steered too close to the wall, both losing the full advantage of wind and current, and making a longer course. On the home stretch Weld was kept too much out in the current, but the other crews held a very good course...