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Gundlach, who prepared at Worcester Academy, was a member of this year's football team. Hunter prepared at Belmont Hill and was coxswain of last year's Freshman crew. Pier, a graduate of St. Paul's, was elected captain of the Freshman cross country team his first year...
Originator of the plan was Kent School's high-church headmaster, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, who coaches crew in his white cassock and sometimes, in black canonicals, substitutes as coxswain. Kent, the school in Connecticut's Berkshires where everybody does chores, was the first U. S. boarding school to send crews to the Henley Regatta. Last week Father Sill was wondering whether he should send a crew this year-because on June 15 the debt situation will be in a critical state. But British pedagogs soothed him: "We will not take it out on a schoolboy crew...
...with the bow of the Italian boat. Dressed in blue shirts, pulling with the same kind of quick, hard-catching stroke that coach Ky Ebright teaches his Californians, the Italians made their bow move out ahead. With 100 metres to go, it was 3 ft. in front of California. Coxswain Norrie Graham of California backed his stroke up to 44. The 3 ft. grew slowly narrower. Twenty-five yards from the finish, it was 1 ft. At the finish, California was ahead, by the width of a hand. Canada's Leander crew was 8 ft. behind Italy, England...
Winthrop-Russell, bow; Leatherbee, 2; England, 3; Nichols, 4; Garrigues, 5; Carman, 6; Swendson, 7; R. H. Wells, stroke; Gurnsey, coxswain...
...Gandhi, 4 ft. 8 in., 76 lb., is shorter and lighter than a jockey or the coxswain of a crew...