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Pennsylvania is accorded only an outside chance Saturday against the heavy eight stroked by Captain John Watts '28 and the last Navy crew. For a Crimson victory, it will be necessary for Watts to pace his boat at a beat three or four points higher than the 36 strokes to the minute he has used successfully on the Charles against M. I. T. and Cornell...
Reenacting in miniature the scenes of the 1924 convention in New York, the mock Democratic convention last night broke a long deadlock between Governor Smith and former Secretary Baker by nominating Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. The deadlock lasted for eight ballots, but near midnight the rivals gave in and the convention agreed on a compromise candidate. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson, was nominated for vice-President on the first ballot...
...first ballot last night found the votes scattered among 26 men. Smith and Baker led with 162 and 126 votes respectively, but these totals fell short of the number necessary for nomination. In the second ballot, the field narrowed to eight, with Smith receiving 356 and Baker...
Shortly after the Saturday afternoon victory over Cornell and M. I. T. the Freshman crew elected Stanley Wyman Swaim '31, of Needham, as captain for the remainder of the season, it was announced yesterday at Weld Boathouse Swaim is at present stroke on the first-year eight. He prepared at Kent School, where he set the pace for the second schoolboy shell...
...pound crew which will journey to Derby, Connecticut, this Saturday for a regatta with the Yale and Princeton lightweight boats, was selected yesterday by Coach C. S. Heard '25. The first eight has been undergoing many seating changes since its two length defeat by the Tech crew on May 5, but the new line up announced by Coach Heard is the same, with the exception of the coxswain, as that of the early season practices. The boating is as follows...