Word: inboards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering oarsmen made for the launches. By constant bailing, the Syracuse and Crimson eights managed to keep the water from lapping at the gunwales inboard until they reached the boat house...
Less experienced than the cool Eli eight, the Hainesmen were unable to settle and forced to a lower beat. With a half-mile to go, rowing smoothly at a high beat combined with efficient inboard work, stroke Bailey's boat nipped the leads of Princeton and Tech and closed the gap on the Elis. Yale was already over by two-thirds of a length, however, clocking...
...races, the drivers tinkered their boats for the rest of the series: three races at Palm Beach this weekend, four more at Miami Beach a week later, the final of which will determine the outboard champion. Climax of the regatta will be a race at Miami between big inboard motorboats - Italy's 12-litre class against U. S. Gold Cup craft, like Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VI, John Shibe's new Miss Philadelphia, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy...
...hook came out of his mouth-but caught again in his side, making him even harder to handle. When he was exhausted he sounded. "Pumping" him up stone dead from the bottom was excruciating labor. A commercial boat's block & tackle was required to hoist the prize finally inboard...
...twenty-stroke sprints which are both essential factors of the short distance. At present the boat runs along in the water without checking, but the run itself is not impressive by any means. The blade-work moreover, is still a little ragged when the stroke is raised, and inboard several breaks are noticeable. With the presence, however, of six veterans in the boat, such kinks will undoubtedly soon be straightened out, and next week should see a much more rythmic and hence powerful outfit...