Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quite a bit different from last summer," said Bert Haines the other day as he stood at the top of the Weld Bost Club dock-runway. There was one oarsman shoving off in a wherry, a couple more running themselves against the wall of the Boat Club, a few swimming off the end of the dock...
...neophyte singles oarsman must spend at least ten minutes on the practice rigs before he is allowed to take the safest of three available single-blade boats at Weld--the wherry. The wherry is the widest of the three, measuring 19 inches in width. The single scull is the narrowest at 12 inches and in between is the compromise--or comp--at 14 inches...
...long arm of the law reached out its aquatic tentacles yesterday and damply tapped an innocent College oarsman on the shoulder. Rowing blandly past the Weeks Memorial Bridge, the Freshman credit-seeker unexpectedly found himself being swamped by the wake of a police barge...
Trooping up the Newell Boathouse slip on a dark gray day, after an hour of poor rowing, the 150-pound oarsman lowers at his reflection in the sleek wet shell and nurses the black conviction that today he pulled the boat all by himself. It is at this touchy moment that coach Bert Haines, a slim, middling-aged man with a wind-reddened face underlined by a thick white towel around his neck, steps from a launch, calls the day's offender aside, and with gestures explains in a gentle, English-tinged voice, "Now, this is the surface...
...this week have been severely hampered by the choppy water and cold air, but Bolles ran a time trial Tuesday and has since been practicing starts and sprints. "We couldn't tell anything from the trials," complained Bolles, who explained that "you can't expect optimum performance when an oarsman gets a bucket of cold water across his back on each stroke...