Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge the heavy Harvard crew pushed over a rough mile and three quarters of the Charles River to nose out M. I. T. by a quarter of a length. And on other rivers other crews were practicing, watched by critics who every season go from college to college, watching workouts from launches or from the boathouse platform. Other commentators, believing that things in rowing, more than in any other sport, are decided by training methods, considered the theories and personalities of the various coaches. Most discussed last week was Edward O. Leader (Yale), gruff and domineering, who has built...
...other coach has turned out as consistently fine crews as Leader. He lost two races last year: one to Harvard, when a Yale man "caught a crab," and one to Princeton, through overconfidence. The Yale crew did not raise its beat until it was inside the flags marking the last quarter mile and even at that it finished within a few feet of the winner. If it had not been for these two slips Leader would have a record of six years without a defeat. He is efficient because he is absorbed in training a crew to row, without considering...
...Jeremiah Shore of Paradise Cove, Mass., take a voyage to Singapore. One of them, ugly Mark (Ernest Torrence), becomes marooned with drink and Chinawomen, forgets his fiancée (Joan Crawford). The other son, handsome Joel (Ramon Novarro), is brought home in chains by the villainous members of the crew, who tell his father that he deserted Brother Mark. That is a lie. To vindicate himself, Brother Joel again sails to Singapore to fetch Brother Mark with the aid of Brother Mark's fiancée. After much skullduggery on land and sea, Brother Mark is killed while embracing...
...championship Sophomore crew overwhelmed the Yale Junior Class crew at Derby Saturday by six lengths. Rowing in rough water with a following wind the Sophomore eight jumped into a lead at the start and steadily pulled away. The Crimson eight set this year's record for the mile and three quarters distance at Derby, turning in a time of nine minutes, 13 and two-fifths seconds...
...Crimson team was considerably handicapped, having played without three of its leading players. Captain M. H. White '28 is recovering from appendicitis, F. A. Clark '29 rowed on the University crew against M. I. T. and Cornell, and L. A. Shaw '30 was taken ill at the last moment and was unable to fill his position at No. 1. J. P. Cotton Jr. '29 was the only letter man in the game...