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Clocked at four minutes, 21 seconds over the half-mile downstream course, George W. Oettle '36 led the field of 13 in the wherry trials for the Spring Soulling Regatta yesterday. Winners of the two other heats, and qualifiers for the finals on Friday are Albert G. Sweeter '37 and Thomas C. Hunt '37. Because of his close and Thomas C. Hunt '37. Because of his close second to Oettle in the second heat, Richard H. Harris, Jr. '37 is also entered in the finals...
...Downstream course will be used for all races. The wherries broads, narrows, and novice singles will use the one-half mile course. While the Carroll Cup Scullers will row the boats over the three quarter mile course, and the finals over the mile...
...backs. Broad winged, black or brown bodied, they are less than half the size of a house fly. Commonest in the Mississippi Valley, they are closely related to the black flies which pester humans farther north. Buffalo gnats breed in swift-flowing streams, attaching their wormlike larvae to the downstream side of a large rock or log. After a month or six weeks the larvae spin cocoons, soon emerge full-grown. The first spell of warm weather sends them swarming to fields and barnyards...
...races will be run downstream over the Henley course, a distance of 1 and 5-16 miles. The referee for all the events will be Coach Bert hains. Although no crew is especially favored to come through as the winner, the Anglers have turned in the best trial time of 7 minutes and 11 seconds. The Bellboys once made 7.15, but that is the closest on record that any other aggregation has been able to come...
...week an animal-lover spied a small, black mongrel dog adrift on an ice cake in the Delaware River. He did not know how the dog had come there, but he knew how to get it off. That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled. Rescuer Corliss toppled into...