Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aspirations of its readers-the Americans who live in Europe. Founded in 1887 by the late great James Gordon Bennett, it was for three decades a society paper for those expatriates of whom Henry James liked to write. It carried whole pages of yachting news, maintained its own coach to Versailles, was written in two languages, with the somewhat quaint idea that people who spoke both French and English liked to read their news the same...
...talent spent the vacation pounding the cinders. As a result the squad is in excellent shape for this time of year, except for Ros Brayton, miler, who got soaked in the eye with a shuttlecock while playing badminton; Bob Partlow, Jump artist, who still has a bad foot; and Coach Mikkola, who has a whing-ding of a cold...
Before the Duke tilt, the team got wind of the fact that Jack Coombs, Blue Devil coach, was anticipating a pushover, having seen the Crimson's uninspired performance against North Carolina the day before. Harvard rallied that day to overcome a five run Duke lead, and held the crack home outfit on even terms until fielding lapses in the seventh saw Coombs' men forge into the lead...
...Coach Harlow went to Phillips House the day before yesterday, and it probably will be a week or ten days before he is able to return to direct practice. By the time he assumes his duties again the squad will undoubtedly have left Briggs Cage permanently...
Before vacation, two positions, stroke and five, were worrying Coach Tom Bolles. At the stroke oar there were four possibilities, Bill Rowe, Jack Wilson, Colton Wagner, and Barr Comstock. From the outset it has seemed that Bill Rowe was the favorite. Last year he stroked the Jayvee shell. Bolles rates all four men as good strokes, but naturally not up to the standard set by Spike Chase last year...