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...meeting for all upperclass and Freshmen coxswains will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Newell boathouse. Coach Stevens will speak on the coxswain's relation to rowing and C. S. Heard '25, coxswain of the University crew, will detail their actual work...
...Seine, became world's champions. Jack Beresford, Jr., of England, Henley single sculls champion, swatted past W. Garrett Gilmore of Philadelphia to the world's singles title (amateur) and the Philadelphia Gold Challenge Cup, emblematic of that honor. Switzerland took the four-oared race with coxswain; Holland the pair-oared without coxswain; Great Britain the four-oared without coxswain...
...Bridge at New London at 4 o'clock, wind and weather permitting; otherwise at 7.30 o'clock upstream. As last year, the fleet of yachts lined along the course will be asked to refrain from blowing their whistles during the race, in order to let the crews hear the coxswain's directions...
...crews started even, both rowing about 34 to the minute. Then the excitement began. Coxswain Heard of the Junior eight called for a ten stroke sprint, and the yearlings responded with ten good ones. Heard, however, called for ten more, which put his crew a full length in the lead. The longer stroke of Coach Shaw enabled the Freshman to make up the distance--but the Seconds repeated their sprint and went into the lead again. These tactics won the race, every time the younger oarsmen came nearly even with his shell, Heard called, "Give her ten!". At the finish...
...Travis, although without previous experience before coming to Harvard, has proved himself the most capable of the Freshman coxswains, and is with the Red crew. The White crew has D. G. Sullivan for its coxswain, and the four...