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...eight men, following the race held by the crews of the A squad in the basin last Saturday afternoon, has reduced the first squad to 16 men, the number which will be retained throughout the rest of the season. The two 150-pound eights staged a race over the Henley distance, following the two mile clash of Coach Brown's men and have also been rearranged with some cuts and some promotions...
...even terms. Going under the Harvard Bridge, three-quarters of a mile from the start, Crew A and Crew C, stroked by Norton, were neck and neck, with Crew D, with, Hall setting the pace, half a length behind. Slowly, however, the eventual winners pulled ahead. From the Henley mark to the finish the distance widened, until at the end Crew A was a length and a quarter ahead of Crew C, with Crew B trailing Norton's boat by a similar margin...
...University 150-pound eights staged a close race over the Henley course in the Basin yesterday afternoon after the heavy crews had rowed the mile and three quarters distance. The eight stroked by James De Normandie '29 finished first with open water between his shell and that stroked by W. C. Atwater...
...from Manhattan. Ladies in long skirts, with trim shirt-waists that betray an underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap is too puny, decrees Colonel Roosevelt. Let them bunk, ride, drill, march together through the entire campaign, and make the best...
Because of the fact that the University 150 pound oarsmen will not be able to meet the Blue crew on that date their comparative strengths cannot be tested until they match strokes at the Henley in Philadelphia on May 28. To this regatta Coach E. J. Brown '96 intends to send a heavy crew; either the best class eight or a combination of the best men from all the class boats. There will be no official third eight this year...