Word: henley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henley-on-Thames, the crew of Jesus College, Cambridge, won the big event-the Grand Challenge Cup-in which no U.S. crew was entered. Another race, for the Thames Challenge Cup, went to a U.S. schoolboy crew from Connecticut's Kent School. Kent's brawny crew (average weight: 174 Ibs.), which brought along its own supply of peanut butter and cooking fats, won easily by two lengths from Massachusetts' Tabor Academy...
Eight men from Eliot House rowed the Henley distance--d mile and 5-16--in seven minutes and 29 seconds in chilly Charles Basin at dusk yesterday to nose out the Winthrop crew by a deck length and cop the House crew championship...
Meanwhile, a fifth crew was added to today's finals at 6 o'clock on the Charles over the Henley course. Kirkland House romped home a quarter of a length ahead of Adams in a special race yesterday designed to settle a disqualification dispute in Wednesday's second heat. By vote of Adolph Samborski and House secretaries, Kirkland will compete today with Wednesday's four qualifiers--Eliot, Leverett, Lowell, and Winthrop...
...heats were rowed yesterday on the Charles over the one and five-sixteenths Henley course. Winthrop and Lowell led the first heat with times of 7.26 and 7.28; Eliot and Leverett the second, in 7:26 and 7:31. A cross wind prevailed during the first race, shifting to a following wind in the second...
M.I.T. is still untested in college competition, but Princeton has already exhibited its prowess by out-rowing Pennsylvania on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia last week. The Tiger varsity won by more than a length at the Henley distance of a mile and five-sixteenths...