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...world's most renowned regatta is the English yachting festival known as Cowes Week. Held on the Solent, between the chalk cliffs of the Isle of Wight and the wooded southern shore of the mainland, Cowes is to yachting what Wimbledon is to tennis, what Ascot is to horse racing, what Hurlingham is to polo, what Lord's is to cricket...
...President used a routine question about TVA as an opportunity to take newsmen up the mountain. He pointed out that "a company," obviously meaning Washington Water Power, in Grand Coulee and Bonneville territory had just sold an issue at "pretty good terms," thus inviting White House reporters to chalk one up for his contention that operating companies with good capital structures (a pat for Washington Water Power) whose "managers" indulge in no soapboxing (a pat for Groesbeck) can count on all the "investor confidence" they need...
...Henley. Oldest and toniest of the three is the Henley Regatta, this year celebrating its 100th anniversary. To row at Henley is the ambition of every oarsman in the world. Last week at that famed little spot 30 miles from London, where the Thames creeps between chalk hills, 50,000 gaily decked Britons turned out for the four-day regatta. With polite murmurs of "well rowed!", they watched U. S. oarsmen make a clean sweep of the three major races: the Grand Challenge Cup (Harvard's varsity crew), the Thames Challenge Cup (Tabor Academy of Marion, Mass...
...visitors' triumph was engineered chiefly by veteran twirler Al Hatch, who scattered six Crimson hits over nine innings and bore down when men were on the bases. His mates jumped on Tom Healey and capitalized on some infield lapses to chalk up three runs in the first and one in the second. To all intents and purposes, they sewed up the ball game right then and there...
Back in their spectacular season form, the 1942 baseball nine buried the St. Mark's batters 17 to 5, under a deluge of hits to chalk up their thirteenth win of the season yesterday on the enemy diamond...