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Double sculls; one mile straight away...
...been practically settled that the boat race between the crews of Cornell, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania will be rowed on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie. The course extends from one mile below the Poughkeepsie railroad bridge straight up the river for four miles. It is from three to eight fathoms deep throughout, and offers no advantage to the crew winning the toss...
...been set at rest by the receipt of an intimation to the O. U. A. C., stating that the American universities have resolved to send a picked team over in July. The formal challenge is expected almost directly, when the Oxford and Cambridge authorities will meet and arrange preliminaries straight away. And tell it not in Gath, further challenges in the same direction are quite within the range of probability within the next few weeks, but we must dissemble awhile...
...White, the head master of Berkeley School, is planning several changes in the cinder-track at Berkely Oval, where the intercollegiate championships were held last year. The straight-away will be widened by about 6 feet and the corners will be well banked. This will admit of at least two more contestants running at once in the dashes and should result in cutting down the time in the bicycle race considerably...
...freshman crews rowed at 12.30 Saturday. Mr. Legate did some vigorous coaching, making a special effort to overcome the fault of going forward too fast. The men alternated between the full stroke and the stroke with straight arms. Goodrich was absent and the first crew rowed: Stroke, Rice; 7, Ames; 6, Woodward; 5, Aldrich; 4, Fuller; 3, Butler; 2, Scull; bow, Davis, Stowell...