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...races will be run downstream over the Henley course, a distance of 1 and 5-16 miles. The referee for all the events will be Coach Bert hains. Although no crew is especially favored to come through as the winner, the Anglers have turned in the best trial time of 7 minutes and 11 seconds. The Bellboys once made 7.15, but that is the closest on record that any other aggregation has been able to come...
...Freshman Red, White, and Blue Crews will race over the regulation Henley Course today at 11.30 o'clock. The race will be down stream from the Cottage Farm Bridge for a distance of a mile and five-sixteenths...
...Bissell, Cassedy, and Whiteside carefully mapped out their plans for the race. They knew that Harvard was primarily a long distance crew. They knew that the Crimson couldn't sustain a high beat for any more than a quarter of a mile. The race was over the Henley distance. They decided to row at a comparatively low stroke for the first mile. Then a quarter of a mile from home, the crew was to throw it in high and let her rip. In other words they were banking on a final roaring spurt down the last stretches...
Recently at Torquay beach, ex-Helmsman Robert Hitchens, now 51, had trouble over another boat. After a quarrel with one Frederick Henley over a little motorboat he shot and pinked Henley. Last week at the Winchester Assizes, Titanic Helmsman Hitchens was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attempted murder...
...after their seven-week Long Vacation, some of their first chatterings will be about the jolly bad luck that four of their masters had last week. Mountain-climbing in Switzerland were House-Masters H. E. Howson, E. V. Slater, E. W. Powell (an Oxford Blue, onetime winner of the Henley Diamond Sculls), and Assistant Master C. R. White-Thomson, eldest son of the Bishop of Ely. Roped together, they were toiling up dangerous Mt. Roseg, near Pontresina. When they did not return on schedule searchers went out, found the four at the foot of a 400-ft. precipice, all quite...