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...crew with the traditional British command: "Come forward . . . Are you ready . . . Paddle!" From the Oxford shell sounded a crisp "Okay, gang, let's go!" For the first time in its 97 years of racing Cambridge, the Oxford crew had a U.S. cox: spectacled, 21-year-old George Alexander Carver (Yale...
...Coxswain Carver's gang tried hard. But they didn't go very far. The favored Cambridge crew skimmed off to a six-length lead in the first half-mile of the horseshoe-shaped 4¼-mile course. The heavier Oxford shell, fighting the choppy, flooded stream, began shipping water from the start, soon swamped and gurgled to a stop...
...former Yale coxswain, George Alexander Carver who found himself forced to cry "this is ridiculous" after five strokes. Then the shell slid under. Carver had twice unsuccessfully piloted the Elis against a Harvard crew but never before did he lose under such ignominious circumstances. The opposing Cambridge shell also almost bubbled under into the choppy Thames...
...HERBERT CARVER...
...heels, Duvallon hastened from Rome to Paris and home again, won the race handily and lived happily ever after. A second version goes back only to the 18th Century, when Bessans' parish priest quarreled with the village woodcarver and forbade him to enter the church. For revenge, the carver whittled a devil carrying the priest in its arms. A passing tourist snapped up the statuette. "There's money in the devil!" cried the happy woodcarver, and set about teaching his sons and grandsons to "make Satan surge out of a pine branch...