Word: hammersmith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coxswain of the Oxford varsity crew and for most of the first quarter of the race, his men held the lead he had shot them away to a few strokes after the start. But Cambridge pulled ahead at the mile and stayed there-one-third of a length at Hammersmith Bridge, a good length at Duke's Meadows, a length and one-half at Barnes Bridge when Oxford made a last forlorn bid to close the open water, two lengths and one-half at the finish at Mortlake, in 20 min. 57 sec., slow time with a sluggish tide...
...next payment on my radio is due Saturday, Feb. 27. "March of Time" goes off Feb. 26th. Just right! Let them come and get the machine! Why keep it after your program goes off? O. J. HAMMERSMITH Fargo...
...rated as no better than other Oxford crews the people on the banks could hardly credit what they saw. Oxford slid out rowing quickly and smoothly, a half-length ahead in a dozen strokes, a length ahead after the first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned the falling drops. Over the flat banks of the Stork, that tiny island past the first bridge, the wind spread whitening fans upstream, and Robert Swartwout, U. S. coxswain of the Cambridge boat, veered...