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...Boston Ritz-Carlton dinner table with his friends of 50 years, George B. “Barry” Bingham Jr. ’56 proposed the impossible: a Charles River row in a lightweight eight-oar shell to take place this week.Two years earlier he had suffered a heart attack and received a pacemaker, and in the seventies he had battled Hodgkin’s Disease. At the January dinner, friends were “relieved” at the state of his health. One month after that dinner, he contracted pneumonia, and he died on April...
There has not been much mean news. One Japanese masseur received a twelve-year suspension for prescribing a forbidden herbal remedy, and a sheared oarlock gate on a French eight-oar boat showed all the marks (file marks) of a saboteur. The regatta venue, Lake Casitas, is the last place one would expect intrigue...
...screamed the middle-aged man from one of the bridges over Boston's Charles River. "Get those broads off the water!" The young women, smoothly stroking an eight-oar shell down the waterway once considered the private domain of the hallowed Harvard crew, are used to such abuse. Ever since Radcliffe recently organized its first rowing team, the oarswomen have had to endure sniggering as well as a more serious problem: lack of financial support. No matter. Women's rowing has not only been launched as a national sport, but it is scudding along at an astonishing pace...
...basis for Baker's reservation is the distinct advantage Philadelphia has in racing experience. The Philly crew is a veteran-studded squad while Radcliffe will be racing five "rookies" in its eight-oar line...
There was also a eight-oar championship race at Orchard Beach, which Harvard did not enter. The race was won by St. Catherine's (Ontario) Rowing Club, which is Canada's Olympic entry. The Canadian boat bested Vesper by over a length, but it was not the same top nine men which Vesper put up in a losing effort to Harvard at the Olympic Trials in California last month...