Word: bailey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vince Bailey Strokes...
Facing Coxy Larner, in the stern of the shell, pacesetter and virtual sparkplug for the boat, is Vince Bailey who is stroking the 150's for the second year. In the course of time Vince has acquired considerable self-confidence and has the strength and the ability to row his own race provided he has even as much as a third of a length lead, and what's more he proved the efficacy of his confidence in the race last Saturday when he performed this very feat. He is only a junior, which speaks well for his own ability...
Backing up Bailey, and stern man on the starboard side in Howle Turner, another junior who is having his second season in the varsity lightweight boat. While it is hard to draw fine lines between the forms of any men who row in a good lightweight crew, it seems safe to say that Turner shapes up as one of the smoothest oarsmen in the boat. Behind him in the six position is Sam Peirce rounding out the trio in the stern who are not only classmates, but have rowed together for one year already...
With a superbly fast start, Vince Bailey paced the fifties out to a deek-length lead immediately at a beat of forty. From then on the Crimson crew gradually lengthened the lead until the half-mile mark at a 36, where it settled down to a stroke far lower than its opponents and kept its position to the end of the race...
...Varsity Boating: Bailey, stroke; Turner, seven; Pierce, six; Gifford, five; Hazard, four; Croker, three; Koenjger two; Gilkey, bow; and Larner...