Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week eight men who form a congenial group the 150 pound crew obliterated all vague comments about their organization, such as "fine looking crew," "smooth oarsmen", and "well coordinated boat" by bringing home the bacon in the figure of the Goldthwalt Cup, the symbol of their precedence over two other principal lightweight crews of the East. Yale and Princeton. The conquest was expected by many but few had dared to voice their opinions...
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...
...five seat, is one of the two seniors in the boat, Ben Gifford. Last year, Gifford rowed on the Jayvee 150's and has the distinetion of being the only man in the boat who has stepped up from last year's second boat. Directly behind him is a solid trio of sophomores, holding down the four, three, and two positions...
...only racing in home waters over the weekend by any member of Harvard's famed rowing armada was by the Lowell House eight, which was defeated by the Dartmouth Freshman boat over a mile and five sixteenths course Friday afternoon on the Charles...