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Four "30-Minute Club" members will compete for the magnum-size, sterling silver Darcey Cup to climax Blake Dennison's annual singles regatta on the Charles this afternoon. The cup was given in memory of Thomas J. Darcey, Jr. '37, by his father. Darcey, who won the American Henley Double Sculls Championship in 1938, lost his life in Lake Erie eight years...
...ancient prerogative, the King shares ownership of Thames swans between Southwark Bridge and Henley with two City companies - the Worshipful Companies of Dyers and Vintners. Each July, in ceremonies known as "swan-upping," swan markers round up the flocks and allocate the young cygnets. One nick is made in the lower bill to mark a Dyers' swan, two for a Vintners'; His Majesty's go nickless...
Furthermore, concerning their prowess, Varsity coach Tom Bolles has remarked that Haines' one-fifties were about the sixth best crew in the country, regardless of weight, at the Henley distance...
...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...
...biggest news of the 108-year-old Henley Royal Regatta was the victory of 20-year-old Philadelphian John B. Kelly Jr. In the same race 27 years ago, Kelly's father, a champion Olympic sculler, was denied the right to compete because he had once done manual labor (as a bricklayer during a college vacation). The rule had since been repealed, but Kelly Sr., now a Philadelphia contractor, vowed that a son of his would one day win the prized Diamond Sculls. Last week he was one of the thousands on shore who saw his son finish eight...