Word: dowding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday's regatta opening, clerk of course Bill Dowd found it necessary to change the method of picking finalists when it became evident that the entries in a scheduled third heat had dropped out. Two heats were rowed and the top men in each--instead of only the winner--qualified for the final...
Forty-three oarsmen of the single vessel variety have entered the six-class competition for the H.A.A. summer sculling medals, Bill Dowd, clerk of course, disclosed last night, in announcing next week's schedule of trial heats and finals immediately after the entry deadline of 6 o'clock yesterday...
...entry list of ten in the wherry class has provided enough boats for three heats, Dowd stated, with the winner in each trial qualifying for the finals next Friday. The wherry men will be the first to row, their first heat scheduled for 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, and the second and third heats at 15 minute intervals thereafter...
...Dowd said that the entries in the other three classes were not large enough to require any eliminations, revealing that there would be four in the junior singles, two in the 155-pound-singles, and four in the senior singles...
...Dowd will doff his clerk-of-course appellation to challenge Day on the strength of his runner-up position last summer in a close meeting with Day as a lightweight oarsman...