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Speakers at the dinner will be William J. Bingham, Richard Harlow, Thomas D. Bolles, Captain Chace of the '38 varsity crew and Captain Talbot of the '39 varsity crew...
Fall rowing reached a new peak of popularity this year with over 270 oarsmen participating at Newell Boat House alone. Bert Haines has seven out of eight men in his championship 150-Ib. boat which went to England this summer. Spike Chace will be sorely missed in the varsity rowing this year, but Tom Bolles has four veterans-back from his last year's boat which was undefeated. Harvey Love has as good a turnout for fall rowing as he had last year and that's saying something...
Only four lettermen return this year: Captain Dud Talbot, Walt Kernan, Bob Stevens, and Vince Richards. One of the key positions left vacant is the stroke position held down by Spike Chace last year. Bill Rowe, pacesetter for the 1938 Jayvees is a likely candidate...
...that either college had an undefeated crew. Harvard was the favorite because: 1) it had defeated every major crew in the East this spring (Navy, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and M.I.T.); 2) its boating had remained unchanged all season; 3) it had as stroke James Fletcher ("Spike") Chace, who had beaten Yale twice before, had paced only one losing race in two years and is generally recognized as one of the greatest strokes in the history of U. S. rowing. Yale had only two seasoned oarsmen in its boat, had changed its boating many times, had a less...
...full 18 seconds slower than the upstream record which Harvard set last year, but the 50,000 spectators who witnessed the race agreed that they had seen one of the finest crews in rowing history and one of the greatest stroke oars of all time. Spike Chace, son of a Park Avenue physician, rowing his last race for Harvard, was the hero of the day. His name was bracketed with that of William ("Foxey") Bancroft (1878) and Gerry ("Killer") Cassedy (1933), the only two other oarsmen in Harvard annals who ever set the beat for three victories...