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...third of the four heats, a promising oarsman named Chenery jumped to an early lead and looked like a sure thing--good form, plenty of wind, oarblades flashing--until a gay Charles River excursion boat loomed directly in his path. As he scrambled out of the way, Bruce Preston and Dick Schaal chunked swiftly by to cross the finish line in a dead heat...
...they had a re-run yesterday for which Chenery, probably unnerved by the whole thing, never showed up. Preston, who an hour before the race thought himself too ill to row, beat Schaal home by more than a length to qualify for the compromise class of the six championships this afternoon. The first race is at 3 o'clock...
Wherry--Burrowes, Clapp, Nilsson, Page. Compromise--Middendorf, Murphy, Preston, Savarit. 155-Pound Singles--Snow, Sprout. Novice Singles--Barroll, Bisbee, Brewer, Queeny. Junior Singles--Berg, Carpenter, Clement, Getchell. Senior Singles--Day, Dowd Eisenstein, Eldridge...
Compromise trial schedule: first heat--Daniels, Robinson, Savarit, Stannatos; second heat--Bentz, Chenery, Middendorf, Rothstein; third heat--Bennett, Griffith, Lipham, Preston; fourth heat--McNamara, Murphy, Simmons, Torres...
...song caught on rapidly, and was a favorite in hot spots from Naples to Leghorn by the time Burrier left Italy in 1948. Back in Boston Burrier had a recording made by Preston Sandiford, a Negro pianist, which caught the attention of Wright Briggs, a pianist of Raykov's orchestra...