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Bids the throbbing tear to start...
...Dunham, '77. A. L. Lowell came in first, his time being 2 min. 9 sec.; Dunham was second, and P. Lowell third, Keyes having fallen out. The running long jump was omitted. The two-mile run was between Bancroft, '78; Raymer, '78; and James, '79. At the start Raymer led, Bancroft was second, and James third. Until the sixth quarter they kept close together, when James took the second position; on the last quarter, James, making a beautiful spirt, pushed ahead and won the race in 12 min. 4 1/2 sec. The next event was a hurdle-race...
...signal for the boats in the first race to take their positions will be given to-morrow at fifteen minutes before eleven. Any boat not on the line at eleven o'clock will not be allowed to start. Every succeeding race will be called five minutes after the completion of the race next preceding...
...start was not good, though not bad enough to justify calling the boats back. Weld was backing, and did not seem to hear the word...
From the very start Holworthy seemed to have the race in their own hands, though they by no means had a "hollow thing of it." At the end of the first half-mile Holworthy were timed at thirty-three strokes to the minute, Weld at thirty-five and one half, Matthews thirty-five and one half, and Holyoke at thirty-six and one half...