Word: wilcox
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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SINGLE-SCULL RACE.The three contestants for the single-scull championship - E. L. Philips, of Cornell, Ansley Wilcox, of Yale, and A. L. Devens, of Harvard - were called into position promptly at the close of the Freshman race, and got the word "Go" as the sun was sending his parting beams over the blue waters of the lake...
...race was not exciting. At the proper time Wilcox quickened his stroke and came in an easy winner, having made the two miles in 14 m. 8 3/4 s., Devens about two lengths behind him, with Phillips eight lengths to his rear...