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None of the three scullers whose names were added to the list on the Thirty-Minute club board at Weld this month registered sensational times; it has been a bad spring Dennison pointed out. But nevertheless, they are well up on the list...
...have accomplished the feat. Only 42 scullers' names have been placed on the Thirty-Minute club board at Weld since the club was begun in 1940 by Blake Dennison, Boat House sculling coach. Only three scullers have made the club this season. And along with the numerous attempts to skim the four-mile distance in the required time, there have been many near misses...
...Dennison tells of one sculler who practiced almost daily for an entire spring, rowing the four-mile course over and over, perfecting his stroke, extending his endurance. Finally, he thought himself ready for a time trial...
Even thirty minutes for four miles is lightning time in anybody's boat. No standard course records are kept, Dennison believes, but he noted that anything near six minutes for one mile is excellent time. Thirty-Minute club members have flashed over the mile distance in 6:22. Derrick M. Wilde '53, who won the Senior Scullers' one-mile race in the University regatta earlier this month, posted a time...
Despite the small number of current members whose names are now on the board, Dennison foresees an upswing in the cyclical rise and fall of membership. "We've had as many as 355 row on a single day," he said, "and we have about 160 freshmen rowing...