Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price of observation train seats for the University race has been set at $5. Due to the limited accommodations which has caused a shortage of tickets in recent years, those applying for one place will be given preference. The Freshman and Second crew races will be held down stream over the upper part of the four mile course starting at 9.45 o'clock on the morning of the main even. Observation trains will leave New London at 9.15 o'clock. Tickets on these trains will be $2 and will not be redeemable, although reservations for the University race...
...Junior crew picked this morning by Coach Brown gave no further indication of the final seating in the second boat. The Junior squad here includes Watts. Barry, Weymer, Perkins, Howe, Canning, Pforzheimer, Gates, Walcott Huntington, Smith, Pendar, Riley, and Rice. The choice for a stroke seems to lie between Watts, Pendar, and Smith...
...Junior crew left the boathouse after the University eight returned. As usual Harry Payne Whitney has placed his yacht Captiva, which is anchored off Gales Ferry, at the disposal of the crews during the entire training period. Today, because of the absence of the Yale coaching launches, two launches from the Captiva were used instead...
...Monitor's crew claimed bounty for the destruction of the Merrimac. A congressional committee investigated the facts and rejected the claim on the ground "that the Merrimac, so far from being seriously injured, was enabled after the engagement to protect the approaches to Norfolk and Richmond until after the evacuation of Norfolk". (H. R. Reports, 1725, 48th Congress, 1st Session...
Stroking Steadily. Six thousand spectators strolled down to the shady shores of Lake Carnegie last week at Princeton after the Harvard ball game to watch the crew race. Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton had their eights lined up near the dam. In the shimmering twilight they pushed out from the referee's launch, the three crews rhythmically beating their way through the quiet waters. Pennsylvania took the lead. At the half mile it became evident to the colorful gallery that the conqueror of Harvard the preceding week would win as she pleased. The red and blue pressed on inexorably under...