Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meeting yesterday afternoon in the indoor Athletic Building with Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of intramural sports, House athletic secretaries worked out details for tournaments in baseball, softball, tennis and crew...
Five teams will represent each House when the season gets underway next week. There will be competition in rowing, tennis, baseball, golf, and softball, with the Agassiz Crew Cup, the C. C. Pell Tennis Bowl, and the McCall Trophy in baseball awaiting the victors in those sports...
...rest of Britain's besoaked sports fans were either watching rugby games and greyhound races, or among the 500,000 who lined the dangerously high Thames for the Oxford-Cambridge crew race. No one expected any record time for this event. Even if both boats stayed afloat (both sank in a memorable race in 1912), river officials were afraid that the soggy Thames banks might collapse, dumping the crowds in. But Cambridge, using its weight advantage of 8 Ibs. per man in bucking the flood waters, moved ahead in the first dozen strokes with a beat...
Since the theory that crews are built, not born, holds sway on the River, Bolles spent the morning and afternoon workouts, which began on Monday and lasted through Saturday, trying to find the right man for the right slot in his Varsity boat--not seeing how fast the brawniest eight men could propel themselves through the water. As the crew candidates--everybody is still a candidate--grow tougher, the stroke goes up, but from the pre-vacation beat of 24 or 26, the maestro of the slides and stretchers has never pushed things above 30 to the minute...
Although nothing is ironclad at yet, a somewhat curious situation exists around Newell with Bim Chanler, captain of the crew, pulling number seven oar on the Jayvees...