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...single scullers will meet all comers in their classes. The races will follow each other as rapidly as possible, and will all be one mile and a half in length. The eights will row the distance straightaway, finishing at the Union Boat Club, but the other races will be rowed with a turn, starting and finishing at the Union Boat Club at Arlington street. The orders of the Harvard crews...
Another improvement over the Holmes Field track is the two hundred and twenty yard straightaway. This has been made on the south side by prolonging the west end two hundred and eight-five feet and the east end seventy-six. It has also been proposed to prolong the west end of the north side sufficiently to enable the quarter-mile to be run with only one turn by starting at the beginning of the two hundred and twenty yard straightaway. But this change will probably not be made, since it would place the finish of the race at an extreme...
...eight which Yale will send will be the second university crew while Annapolis will be represented by her regular crew. The race will be rowed on the river Severn on practically the same course as that on which last year's race took place, which is two miles straightaway...
...annual fall regatta of the Weld boat club was held yesterday afternoon under excellent weather conditions. The course for all the races was a third of a mile straightaway from the first turn of the river above the Boylston street bridge to a point about a hundred yards from the bridge...
...strong wind greatly interfered with the race on the Charles River, Saturday afternoon, between the Weld four-oared barges. The course was a mile straightaway, extending from the Union Boat Club to the sluice beyond Harvard Bridge. Savage's crew drew the inside position next the wall; Marsh's was in number two, Hawes's in three, and Morrill's on the outside. The barge stroked by Hawes 1900, started off first and held the lead the whole way, crossing the line a length ahead of Morrill's crew. The time of the race was 7 minutes 56 seconds...