Word: oarsman
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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...
William Sansom, 35, wrote these stories while serving as an air-raid fireman in London during the war. His Westminster in War, a carefully documented record of what the blitzes did to the city, will be published in England next month. Sansom looks like an Oxford oarsman and lives in a decayed house in northwest London where he is now working "only when I feel like it" on a book of short stories about Corsica...
Nobody is ready to talk about what the watches read when the eight-oared shells finished their one and three-quarter mile stints, but one oarsman breathed yesterday that this spring made last year look like a joke...
Four years as an "almost good enough" oarsman at the University of Washington under Rusty Callow, now at Penn, were good enough training for Bolles to rate a Freshman coaching berth at his Alma Mater. Nine years as a Washington coach were also enough to convince College athletic officials that Bolles was the man and he was lured away to be Varsity mentor here in 1936. Since then, except for a three-year so journ in the Navy, he has reigned with a battered, grey felt crown on his head, at the Newell Boat House...