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...Cambridge lightweight rose to defend Chicago. Small, spindly Debater Robert Egerton Swartwout (he weighs 105 Ib.) boomed out in an amazing bass voice. The same voice last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride of English debaters. Last week Cox Swartwout argued...
...year and finished third was broken by graduations. Coach Bill Haines felt badly about it. "Haven't much . . . cleaned out . . . looks like a licking. . . ." Nobody knew much about Princeton except that John Schultz still runs the boathouse and that all boats are rigged for starboard strokes. Even the coxswain, Captain Robert ("Bish") Colmore, the best head in last year's boat, was out in the early season with a broken arm he got wrestling. Half a dozen men tried out for stroke and none of them turned out to be a sensation. So here were two dark horses...
...early. Down Oakland Estuary last week came two crews pulling easily along with bows almost exactly aligned. They were Washington and California, off in their first race of the year. For two miles and a half they moved along side by side, then something happened in the California shell. Coxswain Graham raised the stroke to 36. The Golden Bears rowed harder, faster, more jerkily. They gained no distance. The shells were still almost even, the finish a half-mile away, but the rowing-wise knew from that moment that California was beaten. The Bears were rowing 37 when suddenly, with...
Oxford still had a chance at the mile post. Ranking, 97-lb. Cambridge coxswain, steered too close to shore and lost a half-length. Two miles farther, the Oxford boat rolled in choppy water. Stroke Holdsworth grazed the surface with his oar. At Barnes Bridge where the Thames narrows near Mortlake, Cambridge was three lengths in front. Brocklebank, watching the Oxford shell, eased down his stroke. When his boat slid over the line a good two lengths in front, Stroke Brocklebank slipped his feet out of the slides, waved his legs at the crowd...
...property, so nowadays there are often twelve shells on the river at once. White Cassock (outside the classroom some call him "The Great White Tent," but most, respectfully, "The Old Man") coaches the first two crews. Sometimes, in black canonicals, he doubles as the crew's deep-bellowing coxswain. His first crews compete in the college class?against the Harvard 150-pounders, the Yale and Princeton freshmen. In 1927 and 1930 they rowed in the British Hen- ley, first U. S. boarding school crews to do so (TIME, July 14). Two of the shells were given Kent by Lord Rothermere...