Word: boated
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There was also a eight-oar championship race at Orchard Beach, which Harvard did not enter. The race was won by St. Catherine's (Ontario) Rowing Club, which is Canada's Olympic entry. The Canadian boat bested Vesper by over a length, but it was not the same top nine men which Vesper put up in a losing effort to Harvard at the Olympic Trials in California last month...
Coach Harry Parker had divided his eight-oared shell into a four with (Coxswain) and a four without, and they have been practicing that way for three weeks. Each boat finished third in its weekend race...
Harvard also entered a junior varsity quintet in the four with race, and the boat finished fourth, just behind the other Harvard boat. JV oarsmen Monk Terry and Charlie Hamlin entered the pair without race, finished third...
...through music of the action as in the actual elements of the story. The tale is of a rich man who arrives with his yacht on a distant evil island and decides to stay there for a year to see how he fares. He instructs the captain of the boat to come back in a year to the same spot and look for a signal from him. Should it be a yellow flag flying the message is that he cannot stand it any longer and must leave, if a red flag, "Brazen blown against the blue" he will stay...
...captain and crew, however, are terrified of the place and leave in haste. Townshend and company recreate the journey home in exquisite detail, the swish of the sails, the churning of the sea past the boat, the receding fear and expectant joy as the motorboat takes them ashore, where they vow not to go back ever dismissing their master as 'crazy anyway'. The last verse of the song is a repetition of the instructions...