Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That there will be no further cut in the University crew squad until after a race which will be held in the basin to morrow afternoon was announced last night. In an informal skirmish upstream yesterday crew X bested crews Y and Z but because of the curves and the generally unfavorable racing conditions which exist upstream the race was not a fair determination of their comparative strengths. The letters X. Y. and Z have been substituted for the letters A, B, and C which distinguish the crewes on squad A until this week...
...foreman and patriarch of the settlement. Such story as there is culminates in the tribulation visited upon him by a God in whom he took small stock. Gangrene eats away the feet upon which he so confidently stood all his life. His toes drop right off in a basin. Some say it was the conjure wrought by one of his many women when she laid his wife's death sheet over his bed. Some say it was his curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied...
...Monday weather conditions permitting, the three University crews will race again over the Basin course, with the strokes shifted. Watts, who rowed with a Freshman boat yesterday, may be back in a University shell next week. Following Monday's race, Coach Brown intends to make a slight shift and raise a few men from the second squad. The expected cut to two crews will probably not take place until the end of the week, at the earliest...
...University 150-pound eights staged a close race over the Henley course in the Basin yesterday afternoon after the heavy crews had rowed the mile and three quarters distance. The eight stroked by James De Normandie '29 finished first with open water between his shell and that stroked by W. C. Atwater...
...three crews which Coach Brown has retained on the A squad will race over the basin course this afternoon for the second time this week if weather conditions are not prohibitive. Since the race on Tuesday afternoon eight men have been dropped to squad B and it is expected that Monday will see the first squad reduced to two crews. The three eights which will clash in the basin tomorrow are as follows...