Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does everything wrong," muttered experts and dubs alike. Rowing an extremely high stroke (36 to 45 a minute, compared to an average sculler's 28 to 32), Joe Burk, who weighs 195 lb. and has arms like piano legs, propels his shell with an unorthodox short jerk of his arms and a quick kick of his legs, sits up almost straight at the end of each stroke. This freak style he developed two years ago on New Jersey's Rancocas Creek, hard by his father's fruit farm, after rowing in orthodox fashion on the University...
Last week 23-year-old Joe Burk was well rewarded. In the 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...
...Cash is still abundant: Last week: 'Joe Louis fights for $900,000 gate...
...later Midget Joe Scott, 22, 3 ft. 4 in., 40 lb., applied for a license to wed Torch-Singer Mae Britt...
When Champion Joe Louis and Challenger Max Schmeling came out of their corners to begin the first round of their fight last week, radio listeners in both the Americas and in Europe expected to hear several rounds of fighting, a half hour or more of broadcasting...