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...various sports shich have lately sprung into existence in this country, there is none that promises to become more popular or to give more satisfaction to those who engage in it than canoeing. After an existence of scarcely more than a dozen years on this side of the water, it has taken a firm hold, and the number of its devotees is rapidly increasing. Combining, as it does, the requisites of exercise, amusement, and excitement, it offers strong inducements to lovers of out-door sports. The popularity of the sport is shown by the existence of the American Canoe Association...
...best of the year for outdoor sports, especially for canoeing. The cool afternoons ought to serve as an inducement for many of the lovers of the double-blade to launch their craft on the river and start for a pleasant paddle up toward Watertown, or down into the rougher water of the harbor. The Canoe Club made a good beginning last spring, by holding a successful regatta; why cannot the experiment be repeated this fall? There can certainly be no better way to arouse interest in the sport. The number of entries made in the races last spring was very...
...WEDNESDAY.Overseers. Stated meeting at No. 70 Water St. Boston...
...hope that one or more graduate committee may be formed, which shall have boating committee now has on the water. This, it seems to me might do away with the greater part of the friction between faculty and students, on this important subject,- athletes. The freshmen and university fall sports, should, I think, be kept up as the three regular winter meetings. I recommend, however, under no circumstances, the extra fourth winter meeting be held in the future, as it has been found impossible to make it anything more than a poor exhibition and a mere overflow meeting...
Harvard had the east course and Yale the west. At 2.46 all was ready and Mr. Bradford, the referee, gave the word "go" from the launch Carrie Goodwin. The start was simply perfect, both crews taking the water at the same time and both rowing 38 strokes to the minute. For a quarter of a mile the crews remained even and the excitement among the spectators was intense. Then slowly by but surely Yale began to draw ahead so that when the first mile flag was passed they had a lead of somewhat less then a length. But already Harvard...