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...There, under the Order's supervision, in one of the best of New England's preparatory schools, young boys, rich and poor, do their own housework, pay what they can afford. Some of them used to get to row on one of "Pater" Sill's Henley champion ship crews...
...stern powerhouse, Captain Toby Ross, 7-man Hal Grant, and Howie Weber at 6, kept the Crimson in the running, and when Tech began to fade at the mile and five sixteenths Henley Course mark, it was Coach Haines's more thorough conditioning program that turned the tide for the Crimson...
...Cambridge rowed to a surprise victory over Oxford's crew at Henley-on-Thames. Thousands of London evacuees watched the classic, in which the winning Light Blues used a shell borrowed from Oxford...
Battling a tricky cross-wind and choppy waters, three Harvard crews bowed to experienced M.I.T. and Cornell eights Saturday afternoon on the Henley Course in the first formal triangular regatta since the war started. Both M.I.T. and Cornell had formal spring racing seasons, and Cornell, the added advantage of frequent practice in rough water. "We just met better crews, that's all," remarked Coach Bert Haines after the contest...
...tomorrow's races will be over the Henley distance of one mile and five-sixteenths, the course beginning just in front of the Tech boathouse and ending out in the Basin about a quarter of a mile past the M.I.T. Sailing Pavilion...