Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford's heavy crew, outrowing Cambridge by two lengths in choppy water; in the goth meeting of the two universities; over 4 1/4 twisting miles of the Thames from Putney Bridge to Mortlake Brewery. It was Oxford's second successive victory after 13 successive losses. Only Americans in the race were the Cambridge coxswain, Harvardman Thomas Harrison Hunter, who walks with crutches ashore, and the strongest Cambridge oar Gordon Keppel, Princeton's 1935-36 crew captain...
...blow hard as soon as he is out of sight of land. Convoying ships of the East India Co., Hornblower drives off two French raiders (incidentally conquering his secret shame, seasickness), accepts the grateful tributes of the merchantmen, then outrages them by seizing their men to fill out his crew. In another 48 hours the phlegmatic Englishman takes his first prize, a French merchantman that nets him ?5,000, storms.a French battery on the east coast of Spain, raids overland to burn a coastal vessel moving down a sheltered lagoon, on a night attack, steals another prize, lying under...
...impossible to make any accurate predictions of the calibre of this year's crew until the stroke gets higher. So far it has not gone above 23 strokes per minute. Bolles is confident that he will know the true value of this year's crop of oarsmen after the vacation practice. Unless the weather becomes warmer Bolles will not raise the stroke, until the first race of the year with M.I.T. and Rutgers on the Charles on April...
...erratic. The Jayvees on the other hand, have been pretty consistent. There is really very little difference between the two boats. Being very open-minded towards his oarsmen, Bolles will not hesitate to make changes in his first boat if he thinks it is for the good of the crew. "Spike" Chace, captain of the Varsity, is one sure choice for the stroke position, although even he will be closely pressed by Bill Rowe and Barr Comstock. Jim Curwen, Freshman pace-setter last spring, has decided to stick to swimming this year...
Intramural tennis and crew for Yardlings will be started after vacation...