Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweepswingers of the first two University eights, Coach Brown, managers, waiters, launch drivers and various camp attaches will leave Boston at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon as the vanguard of the Harvard crew squad entrains for its quarters at Red Top, Connecticut...
...given rise to a large amount of shifting of oarsmen in an attempt to select the best first and second University eights as well as five upperclassmen for the combination crew. Yesterday three revamped crews took a long workout and several additional substitutes were shifted from the coaching launch to the shells during the course of the afternoon...
Exeter Spain s.s.; Reed. 2b; Kimball, lb; Coombs, p.; Rich, 3b.; Curtin, l.f.; Pixtoy, r.f.; Launch, c.f.; Fremd...
Matheson. A bright sun was shining across Biscayne Bay in Florida one day last February as William John Matheson, retired chemical tycoon, sat on his Coconut Grove porch and watched one of his white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...
...Matheson filed a protest with Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen who took up the matter with Rear-Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard commandant at Washington. Wrote Admiral Billard to Tycoon Matheson: "As your launch was innocently engaged, I express regret . . . but . . . the Coast Guard personnel involved are not censurable in this incident...