Word: gale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale crews will not arrive in New London until this afternoon this delay being occasioned by examinations, which are not yet over at New Haven. Upon their arrival at New London, the men will immediately go to their quarters, which are just beside Columbia's at Gale's Ferry, four miles up the river. It is the same house that they have occupied for the past six years, and is certainly an excellent place for a crew...
...weather is beautiful, and the water of the Thames has been uncommonly smooth for the last few weeks. The air up the river is delight fully cool and bracing, and consequently the oarsmen are all feeling wonderfully well. To use an old boatman's words, who rowed me across Gale's Ferry the other day, "The people don't die at all round these parts. No sir. There's Jim Smith over there, you see, hoeing his garden, well he's lived to be a hundred and two, and is likely to live as long again. There's no graveyards...
...Williams Fortnight advocates the shingle system in use here, saying: "It is time that we did away with the primitive bits of tattered paper, clinging feebly to the chapel in a mountain gale. Let us welcome the more civilized 'shingle,' natty in appearance, a stimulator to individual society work, and, what is more, a friend that can be admitted to a group of Pach or Notman...
Promptly on time the two elevens lined up, the seniors having the western goal and the kick-off, and being materially aided by a half-gale of wind. Rushes by Churchill and Woodbury brought the ball to the sophomores' 10 yard line, and Austin twice tried for goals from the field, only to be baffled by the slippery leather of the ball. After some lively playing Austin made a daring rush over the slimy ground and was forced outside nearly upon the five yard line. The ball was brought out fifteen yards, and snapped back to Fiske, who sent...
...third round has not yet been finished. Doubles. 1st round, Keasby and Paine beat Cogswell and Reynolds, 6-2, 5-6, 6-3; all the rest drew byes. 2nd round, Hopkins and Snow beat Taylor and Wheelwright, 6-5, 6-5; Morrison and White beat Babbitt and gale...