Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four crews left the boat house at 11.30 this morning for a light workout down to the Navy Yard and back. The line-up of the University eight remains unchanged from the shift made by Coach Haines last Friday. It is boated as follows: Stroke, Captain Winthrop; 7, Leavitt; 6, Darlington; 5, Platt; 4, Hubbard; 3, Saltonstall; 2, Ames; bow Barton; coxswain, Beer...
...Freshman eight, also in charge of Coach Haines, remained today in the same order in which it has rowed all season. The seating was: stroke, Captain Norton; Murchie, 7; Harrison, 6; Saum, 5; Clark, 4; Emmett, 3; Hamlen, 2; Laurence...
...team captain, Clarence Houser, tossed the discus into first place money and another new record of 151 ft. 3 3/8 in. The discus weighs 41/2 Ib. Houser threw it farther than most men can throw a baseball. With a mighty push he sent the shot floating through the air for another record of within a quarter inch...
...gone far before major casualties occurred. Hammering hooks, ripping off slices, hewing up divots like graveslabs, ponderous Cyril Tolley of England duffered out of the tournament with a suddenness and completeness that boded ill to Britain's Walker Cup chances later on, for Tolley is the British team's captain. But then U. S. Captain Robert Gardner spent a morning "hitting the ball on the roof" (i. e., topping shots) and dishonors were even. As one despatch paraphrased it: "His driving was singular and putting plural...
Married. John Chipman Farrar, editor of The Bookman; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, crossword puzzle authoress; in Manhattan. Best man: Charles Phelps Taft 2nd. Ushers: S. V. Benet (poet-novelist); Philip Barry (playwright); F. T. Davison (wealthy politician); Artemus L. Gates (Yale football captain, World War hero); Hamilton Hadley (son of Yale University's President Emeritus); Robert A. Lovett (son of "Judge" Lovett, famed railway magnate...