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...opening of the fall sculling regatta yesterday afternoon, preliminary trials in the wherry and broad comp races were rowed on the downstream course. In the wherry race, four-heats were held, the first man in each heat qualifying for the final to be held on Friday. Two heats were held in the broad comp race, with the first two men in each heat gaining a place in the finals...
...Monday, October 23, the Fall Sculling Regatta for University men only, will open at the Weld Boat House. This year, contrary to the practice of other years, the races will be rowed on the downstream course...
Danube river steamers coasting downstream from Vienna were jammed last week with Boy Scouts of 37 nations, going to the Fourth World Jamboree of 30,000 Scouts in the former Royal Hunting Preserves 17 miles from Budapest. On one of the steamers, completely unnoticed by 100 U. S. Scouts keen at spotting the peculiarities of birds, trees and beetles, was an elderly Briton. The old man in mufti who kept the secret of his incognito was "B.-P.," beloved Lieut.-General Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 76, founder of the Boy Scouts in 1908 and Chief Scout of the World...
...upstream-course will be carefully laid out beforehand, with the finish line on the level of the downstream float of the boat house. It has been traveled fastest by J. S. Frame '30, a student in the summer school, who in the last year's regatta put up a time of 58.8 seconds. The best women's time, and there were 45 women in last years total entry of 115, is some 15 seconds behind this record...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 6--Harvard's time over the downstream four-mile course today was 29 seconds faster than Yale's time this afternoon upstream with a following wind. The Eli shell covered the course in today's time trial in 20 minutes, 12 seconds, with tide conditions not as favorable as those under which the Crimson made their record of 19 minutes, 43 2-5 seconds. Coach Whiteside was extremely pleased with the Harvard showing, the fastest early trial time chalked up in several years...