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With Yale in the lead by a length down the final stretch, Eli cox Guy Gregoire failed to see a navigational buoy, which quickly chewed up the oar of number seven man Al Lawn. While Lawn was jumping overboard with the useless oar, Yale quickly lost its comfortable margin (and would have been disqualified by Lawn's swim anyway) to the surging Crimson...
...disconsolate Gregoire and angry coach Johnson claimed that the referee should have warned the boat about the buoy and wanted the race re-run. But the ref, Robert Morey (a former Yale Olympian rower) ruled that both squads were instructed about the buoy in advance, and vetoed the proposal...
...bunchmeister on this day was first baseman Mark Bingham, whose three-run homer to right field in the sixth pushed home all the runs that starter Larry Brown needed to buoy the victory...
...fisherman's Congressman," he sponsored the bill that extends exclusive U. S. fishing rights to 200 miles off the coast Thus Massachusetts seamen no longer have to compete with better-equipped foreign trawlers for the dwindling supply of flounder, cod and haddock. Appropriately, Studds boarded the buoy tender Bittersweet for the annual blessing of the fishing fleet off New Bedford-and also to remind his audience that he had cleared the waters for them...
...waters of Rhode Island Sound off Newport, he has driven his crew to a razor-sharp edge. Conservative in his tactics when in the lead, he will stop at nothing when he is behind. The final race last week against Enterprise was typical. Trailing at the final buoy, Turner drove his crew through 19 tacks on the last 2½mile leg. Each of the grueling changes in direction and shifts in the set of the sails was perfectly timed by Turner and flawlessly executed by the crew; at the finish, a 17-second deficit had become a 43-second...