Word: duckworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This tribute to a sporting event that annually draws from 500,000 to 1,000,000 Londoners to the banks of the Thames was written last month in Great Britain's Coming Events by J. N. Duckworth, coxswain of the Cambridge crew for the past four years. Had he been more frank and less polite, Cambridge's Coxswain Duckworth might have added that there was a time when Boat Race Day was also memorable for the boat race between his crew and Oxford's. Since 1923, however, this has not been the case. Cambridge has won regularly...
...Goggin Bradley, r. f. b. r. f. b., Gorman Sheridan, l. f. b. l. f. b., Stratton Macneil, r. h. b. r. h. b., Burden Jacobson, c. h. b. c. h. b., Mathieu Phillips, r. h. b. r. h. b., Boyee, Atlas Mansing, Witkin, Roosevelt, r. o. r. o., Duckworth Hammond, Johnson, r. i. r. i., Ward Johansen, e. f. e. f., Dulker (Capt.) Lewis (Capt.), l. i. l. i., Bellard Harmien, Sinnett, l. o. l. o., Rockwood...
Oxford got the better start. At Craven's Steps, Cambridge, pulling with an easier stroke, was three quarters of a length in front. The Cambridge coxswain, Duckworth, hugged the Surrey bank for smoother water. Close to shore, his shell got better run, led by three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths...
...refrain from the broad clowning which evoked lowgrade bellows in Hoboken. On 55th Street one is supposed to be amused gently by the spectacle of a play faithfully produced in the manner of 1843, when Phineas Taylor Barnum first presented it, and people wept for the young wife (Dortha Duckworth) when her handsome husband (Hal Conklin) took to drink, rejoiced when good Banker Rencelaw brought him back to virtue and probity from a tavern shed...