Word: oarsmen
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Over 75 Crimson oarsmen, undergraduate and alumni, are jamming the waters of the Charles from Watertown to the basin in preparation for the American Rowing Association Regatta here this weekend. They are riding in all sorts of odd-sized shells from singles to eights and fly the colors of nearly every boatclub along the riverbank...
...biggest part of an eight-oared shell and all of one four representing the Union Boat Club in the regatta. The colors of the Weld Boat Club, of Eliot House, and of the Newell squad will emblazon the oars of seven other eights. Three singles and a quad (four oarsmen plying eight oars) will also represent the Weld Boat Club. A double (two oarsmen and four oars, without a cox) have been working out of Weld in the past weeks but won't enter the regatta as plans now stand...
...lasting until after 6 p.m., will also include races between various female aggregations gotten up for the occasion. Yale, however, will not enter its first team in the ARA's as it did last year, and doesn't plan even bringing any of her lower echelon oarsmen. Her unexpected entry of her first varsity and subsequent sweep of the small college eights at the ARA regatta in Philadelphia last year has apparently proved enough sustenance for her publicity department for some years to come...
Eliot didn't startle anybody by winning the race; it remained for Leverett to pull the surprise of the afternoon by finishing only three-quarters of a length behind the champions. The Bunny oarsmen are inexperienced, but they're great in stature, strength, and determination...
...beyond all this is the indefinable quality o morale and esprit which Coach Bolles feels is the most important cause of all. It is an esprit which can only come from eight oarsmen, a cox, and a coach who are dogged enough to spend months in the cold wind or broiling sun learning to pull a 12-foot oar through the water with the precision and power to win races on perhaps five Saturday afternoons in a year and to pull just as hard despite the fact that 99 out of 100 people who watch them don't even know...