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...last week, for the first time in history, a mother heard her daughter canonized a saint. In a place of special honor near the papal throne, 86-year-old Assunta Goretti sat with her two sons and two daughters and wept. "My daughter, my daughter," she cried. "My little Marietta...
This year the race had been shifted from the turbulent Hudson to the placid Ohio, where it was hoped that the dams at Marietta would still the current and the complaints of coaches that Poughkeepsie's course was unfair to crews. But the change did not seem to affect the West's standing. Before last week's race undefeated Washington had been picked as the favorite by nine of the twelve coaches, including Washington's Ulbrickson himself. California was the second choice...
...rowing hands it was a repetition of the confusion that often prevailed at Poughkeepsie. The ripping current dragged the marker buoys and finish line out of position. The observation train (a revenue producer that helped to spur the shift to Marietta) broke down. The course had to be shortened to two miles. Finally the abbreviated races got under way two hours late. Washington won the first race for freshmen; its junior varsity won the second...
...choice was Marietta, Ohio (pop. 19,500), where the calm Ohio River (see map) bends gradually along a three-mile course with dams above and below it that control the currents. The crews can be comfortably housed in Marietta College dormitories, and the Baltimore & Ohio has promised an observation train. Pleased as punch with the coup, Marietta boosters were already starting a $20,000 fund-raising campaign to take care of the visitors...
...Marietta, Ohio, will be this year's site for the traditional Poughkeepsie Regatta, the stewards of the American Intercollegiate Rowing Association announced yesterday...