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Harvard took the lead at the start, although rowing a little unevenly at first. She soon settled down and rowed the race in very fine form from start to finish. Perkins set a quick stroke at the beginning and, by the time Harvard reached the first half-mile buoy, she was a good half length ahead, pulling thirty-six strokes to the minute. Harvard kept increasing the lead and, at the end of the first mile, had gained over a length on the Columbia crew. The mile was made in just six minutes. Up to this time both crews rowed...
Columbia has not been in the least influenced by Yale's exhibition of a fast stroke last year, still keeping to the opinion that a slow stroke is better for a four mile race and a fast one for a short race...
...Captain Cowles gives it as his opinion that with 36 or 37 strokes per minute his boat travels faster for a distance of three miles, or even less, than if the crew is hurried up to 40 and kept at that rate. At the fast stroke the rowing becomes short and scratchy, and the energy of a heavy crew is wasted in swinging back and forth instead of the power being reserved as much as possible for the driving of the boat along when the oar is in the water. The training stroke of the crew has ranged from...
...annual race with the Harvard freshmen Columbia has again been able to secure a lively lot of young oarsmen with a really good stroke. As is natural with a crew selected in the way usual with freshmen, there is not much polish about the work, but there is evidently plenty of willingness, and all they require is a little care and attention to make them fully as good if not better than the freshman crew of last year. Up to Wednesday last they had been using the '83 class boat, which was not rigged to suit them...
...Doyle, stroke...