Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy never had a chance to show Harvard its highly publicized wares. At the Mass. Avenue Bridge, which the crews reached practically simultaneously, Phil Childs, the Blue and Gold stroke, caught a half-crab and consequently jumped his slide...
Despite the field of five boats, attention will be focussed on two strokes, Harvard's Bus Curwen, and Navy's Phil Childs. What these two men do in all probability will determine the outcome of the season for both boats...
...Marker, Phil Childs, is pacing the Middies, whose strategy forbids settling too much after the start. Thus while Curwen drops to 32, Childs stays at 35, and this higher stroking should give Navy an early advantage. On such things is unusually abyssmal on such things is unusually abysmal this year, forsces a grim struggle in the last, long quarter mile as Childs strives to stave off the closing sprint which Curwen is bound to spark. At a low stroke the Varsity is not overly impressive, but when Captain Ted Lyman's men got swinging over 36, their power and precision...
...Crimson number one man, Pete Macgowan, rallied strongly after being six down at the end of nine holes, but his spurt was not enough to overcome Bud Patterson. The highly rated Rhode Island amateur downed the Harvard ace 3 and 2. Bill Allis at number two, took care of Phil Conaty 4 and 3, and his card aided greatly in the Macgowan-Allis win over Patterson and Conaty...
League fans agree: the Philadelphia Phil lies (who wish to be known henceforth as Phils) will finish last. For first place there is no such unanimity. This year it is a toss-up between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals, with the Cincinnati Reds close behind...