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...Legdrive" Comstock's smooth stroking boatload scored a full length victory over Spike Chace's outfit yesterday in a mile race on the basin course. The winners covered the distance...
...heavy and three lightweight crews lined up across the course at the start and with the word "row". Comstock's boat jumped into a lead which they never relinquished. At the finish Chace's boat was closely pressed by Carwen's with the crew paced by Lawrence following. Behind them Tom Talbot's boat and two lightweight crew came under the wire almost together, while the state-wise paced by Sanger light wells his and the lightweights behind George I've is brought up the rear in that order...
...boat stroked by Spike Chace is expected to lead the procession, but it may have a fight on its hands from some of the other combinations. These crews were chosen by lot last Friday and have been practicing together since then. The aggregation paced by Barr Comstock, dynamic stroke of last year's combination crew, has shown some promise, as had Tom Talbot's boatload, and with nine or more crews lined up abreast on the basin course anything may happen...
...meets this week. Not only as the originator of the cyclotron but as the foremost U. S. destroyer and creator of atoms, the No. 1 U. S. investigator of artificial radioactivity and the headmaster of what is in effect a school for atomic physicists, he was to receive the Comstock Prize ($2,500 and a certificate). With a membership limited to 300, the National Academy is the lordliest body of scholars in the country and the Comstock Prize, its highest honor, is awarded only once every five years. In many quarters it is regarded as the highest U. S. scientific...
Eleock, Curwen, Stanton, Dean, Overton, Simmous, Scott, Richards and Stiles; Fox, Comstock, Stevens, Burr, John Rowe, Hovey, Brenter, Ninde, and Meyer; Larner, Tyson, Tom Talbot, Dave Gardner, Lloyd, Kingman, Walkley, and Both...