Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, the U.S. Coast Guard sank the British auxiliary schooner I'm Alone, and killed one of her crew, an indefinite distance off the Louisiana coast near "Sixty Deep." Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone...
Cornered by other U.S. craft 24 hours later on the high seas, the I'm Alone was sent down by gunfire from the cutter Dexter. The man killed was a Negro seaman. The rest of the crew, in irons, were carried to New Orleans aboard the Dexter. Admiral Billard was positive the pursuit began within the twelve-mile limit and therefore within the terms of the British Rum Treaty. But the British embassy was not so sure...
...first fifteen strokes the Junior eight took the lead over the other two crews, but by the time the half-mile mark was reached the Sophomores had gained the lead, closely followed by the Seniors. At the Harvard Bridge the Senior eight raised the stroke and pulled steadily ahead of the Sophomore crew till they had a length's margin at the finish line. The Juniors took the third place when the Seniors jumped into the lead at the bridge, and dropped behind slowly to finish a little over a length behind the Sophomore eight...
...Senior eight stroked by S.W. Swaim '31 upset the supremacy of the Sophomore B crew stroked by James Lawrence, Jr. '29 by defeating the latter in a slow mile and three quarter race in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon...
...strong following wind kicked up waves which rather handicapped than aided the crews accounting for the winning crew's requiring 10 minutes 22 seconds to cover the course...