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...first thing most athletes do when they get out of college is to order a heavy meal, wash it down with a cold beer, take a deep drag on a cigarette -and gleefully go to pot. But not if they live in Philadelphia and know how to pull an oar. Philadelphia's 99-year-old Vesper Boat Club awards no letters or athletic scholarships; its members work out six days a week, row as much as six miles each practice session. Why? "Because we like it," says Secretary-Treasurer John B. Kelly Jr., onetime Olympic sculler and brother...
Harvard rowed as well as anyone ever expected them to. The surprise was Vesper. The victory by Vesper may, in fact, have profound consequences for U.S. rowing. Vesper certainly proved that age is not necessarily a disadvantage (Vesper's number seven oar is 35 and the father of six children), whereas experience always helps...
Some observers speculated that the back injury to Geoff Gratwick, Harvard's number two oar, might have made the difference Saturday. This was certainly not evident from Harvard's performance in the race or from Parker's explanation of the outcome...
Freighters, pleasure boats, barges and tugs wash up wakes like walls in San Francisco Bay's East Oakland estuary, but they are getting used to watching out for the thin-skinned craft with the straining oarsmen. Since California first dipped an oar in 1907, it has won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta eight times. Golden Bear crews have won three Olympic gold medals in three tries, and established themselves as the power in the West...
...Harvard crew does not row with the regular American oar but uses a European "tulip" or "shovel" oar. The new style has served well, and the Crimson has lowered the Charles River record for 2000 meters twice this season--first by beating Princeton and M.I.T. in the Compton Cup (the record fell from 6:15.4 to 6:00.1), and again by whipping Navy and Penn for the Adams Cup (the new record...