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Stroke-our Frank Cunningham, who pulled the crew to its major sprint victories at Princeton and Seattle and earned an all-star rating by a Seattle sportswriter, will have graduated both from the College and his little seat facing the coxswain. Gone too will be Captain Bob Stone, who was at four, and Stu Clark, at two. Significantly, from the balanced-boat angle, all three are starboard oarsmen...
...Filling Cunningham's spot will probably be the toughest. The rest of the boat conquers of falls on the pace that its stroke can set and maintain for them. Of course, as in any team sport, that isn't the whole story; but situations may arise, as they did in the four-mile regatta with Yale, that the stroke must carry the shell when his mates are having trouble. In that particular back-breaker, too little pre-race warmup caused physical complications about half-way through among the men behind Cunningham, who practically bore the weight of the speeding shell...
Oversight. In Honolulu, Light Heavyweight Richard Cunningham jauntily climbed through the ropes into the ring, briskly peeled off his robe, promptly climbed out again, presently reappeared, all set, wearing the trunks he had forgotten the first time...
...stroke in the number one shell, Bolles had Frank Cunningham, a 1942 150-pounder with a barrel chest and slim hips, who yesterday was chosen, along with number five, Jud Gale, for a Seattle sportswriter's all-star crew. Cunningham led the Crimson to victories at Annapolis, Princeton, and the Thames, besides at Lake Washington, which gives the Varsity an unofficial national championship...
Practically the only sour note of the year was sounded by Bill Cunningham, whose sensitive Dartmouth ear was offended by several trombone notes at the end of the Big Green recording. Although refusing to provoke any further wrath from Bill, Manager Skinner placed the blame squarely on the columnist's shoulders by giving his trombonists a clean bill of health and commenting that "Cunningham apparently doesn't know a trombone from a tuba anyway...