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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Pennsylvania oarsmen have ordered a new eight-oared shell from Davy, the boat builder of Cambridge. It will be of the swivel type and will embody a number of Coach Wright's own ideas. Last year Pennsylvania used the tholepin, but Wright has had more experience with the swivel, having been accustomed to this type of rigging when coaching the Argonaut Club of Canada. At present it is planned to let the oarsmen have two weeks practice on the Delaware before leaving for the final bit of training at Poughkeepsie. In this way Wright believes he will accustom...
...hull is to be much stronger than any others used in this country, and its seaworthiness lies in the fact that it will get off the water very quickly. From all indications this flying boat should be the fastest ocean flying machine of military type in the country. At present two such boats have been ordered for the Yale Unit, and are the gifts of H. P. Davison. Two more may be added if these prove successful...
About 30 or 40 candidates have reported for voluntary rowing under Coach Haines. The prospects for the spring are good, especially for a strong Freshman boat. Voluntary work will be discontinued during the mid-year period so that all candidates should get the benefit of the individual coaching on the machines and in the tank before it terminates...
...McKay 2L rescued two 12-year-old boys from drowning in the Charles river yesterday afternoon. The boys were Richard Wolbert, of 9 Centre street, and Philip Rutledge, of 8 Chatham street, both of Cambridge. Lathrop and McKay were walking along the parkway near the Cambridge Boat Club about 5 o'clock in the afternoon when they saw a crowd collected near where the two boys had gone through the ice. Lathrop immediately threw of his coat and plunged into the water, and with the assistance of McKay, pulled them out and carried them ashore. Neither of the boys suffered...
...individual oarsman, his work was just as phenomenal. When he was 19 years of age he entered a single scull race in a boat made by himself, which weighed over 80 pounds. Yet he won the race by a distance of more than a half-mile over his nearest competitor. This race marked the beginning of 88 successive victories as an amateur. Then he became a professional, and started a series of 46 contests marred only by seven defeats. An unfortunate sunstroke in May, 1879, ended his competitive career...