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...boatload seems to have one important handicap. They have in the past found it hard to turn on the power with a low stroke. In their nip-and-tuck race with Cornell they were unable to lower the beat to a thirty-four...
Eager for unity, the convention sent Lundeberg a boatload of delegates bearing olive branches. At the hall where S. U. P. was holding its weekly meeting, they found the Norse giant himself, blocking the door. Fists clenched, he thundered at Revels Cayton, author of the unity proposal, denounced him as fink and traitor. Of the secessionists only the repentant firemen returned to the federation fold. This week Lundeberg announced worse news for the Maritime Federation: His sailors had now chosen A. F. of L. by a 2-1 vote, were ready to join A. F. of L.'s Maritime...
...Panay's squat hull. They show that the attack was methodical, crafty, well-aimed. Because the cameramen (Universal's Norman Alley, Movietone's Eric Mayell) stayed on the Panay to take shots of the wreckage, they missed the machine-gunning from the air of the first boatload of survivors to head for shore, an attack that killed two already wounded seamen. The boat, holes torn in its planking by bullets, was filmed later. Because the cameramen buried their equipment in the mud when a Japanese launch headed out from the opposite shore, they missed the final Japanese...
...Legdrive" Comstock's smooth stroking boatload scored a full length victory over Spike Chace's outfit yesterday in a mile race on the basin course. The winners covered the distance...
...fight on its hands from some of the other combinations. These crews were chosen by lot last Friday and have been practicing together since then. The aggregation paced by Barr Comstock, dynamic stroke of last year's combination crew, has shown some promise, as had Tom Talbot's boatload, and with nine or more crews lined up abreast on the basin course anything may happen...