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Auspiciously inaugurating the new season, which officially begins this afternoon. Bud Talbot introduced Bert Haines as the first speaker. Haines was full of praise for the way the Henley Regatia was run this year. His only regret was the close race his 150-pound oarsmen lost to Kent in England. "Kent was too heavy for us in that strong headwind." he explained ruefully...
Bolles will open the meeting with some general remarks, and Captain Dudley Talbot '39 will also speak. Bert Haines, coach of the 150's, will tell about the Harvard lightweights at the Henley regatta accompanied by motion pictures of the event. Pictures of last June's Harvard-Yale race will also be shown. Bolles has announced that fall training for all men will begin tomorrow at Newell Boat House...
Unable to withstand the shock of returning to more fog and rain in Cambridge after a summer spent crossing the ocean fist one way and then the other, with a visit in foggy and rainy England in between, the 150 pound shell, which had taken part in the Henley Regatta, came to an ignominious end on route 16 some seven miles west of Cambridge...
...mile and a quarter course. Last year, after running away with the U. S. and Canadian sculling championships with machine-like ease, oarsmen dubbed him the "rowing robot," marveled at the power of his arms. But his brawny arms are nothing compared to his perseverance. In preparing for the Henley Regatta, throughout last winter and summer, the Jersey farm boy rowed 3,000 miles on the narrow, winding Rancocas, with a stopwatch strapped between his toes...
...final of the Diamond Sculls, dipping his oars 45 times a minute, he streaked through the water as if he had an outboard motor attached to his 26-lb. shell, not only won the coveted race but did it in 8 min. 2 sec.-eight seconds faster than the Henley record set in 1905. Only three Americans before him had ever won the Diamond Sculls : Edward Ten Eyck in 1897, B. Hunting Howell in 1898-99, and Walter Hoover...