Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rowing carnival, the annual Henley Regatta, saw an amazing performance. For four days they gaped at a red-haired American sculler, Joseph William Burk, who decisively outrowed his opponents over the mile and 5/16 course day after day in the elimination heats of, the Diamond Sculls, most famed race in the world for individual scullers...
Last week 23-year-old Joe Burk was well rewarded. In the final of the Diamond Sculls, dipping his oars 45 times a minute, he streaked through the water as if he had an outboard motor attached to his 26-lb. shell, not only won the coveted race but did it in 8 min. 2 sec.-eight seconds faster than the Henley record set in 1905. Only three Americans before him had ever won the Diamond Sculls : Edward Ten Eyck in 1897, B. Hunting Howell in 1898-99, and Walter Hoover...
There last week, with the same conviviality and commotion of 75 Race Days before it, an undefeated Harvard crew met an undefeated Yale crew for the four-mile race on the Thames-upstream this year from the railroad bridge to Bartlett's Cove. It was the first time since 1934 that either college had an undefeated crew. Harvard was the favorite because: 1) it had defeated every major crew in the East this spring (Navy, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and M.I.T.); 2) its boating had remained unchanged all season; 3) it had as stroke James Fletcher ("Spike...
...banks, the observation train and the decks of the million-dollar flotilla of yachts-yelled themselves hoarse as Ed Leader's crew shot out in front getting away from the stake boats. But that was the only time it was in front. In as pretty a race as has been seen on the Thames in years, both shells moved along as one-the Yale bow stubbornly clinging to the Harvard stern - until beyond the three-mile mark. There Yale made a courageous challenge, moved up almost neck & neck with the smooth-moving Harvard boat. But the spurt...
...time was 20 min. 20 sec., a full 18 seconds slower than the upstream record which Harvard set last year, but the 50,000 spectators who witnessed the race agreed that they had seen one of the finest crews in rowing history and one of the greatest stroke oars of all time. Spike Chace, son of a Park Avenue physician, rowing his last race for Harvard, was the hero of the day. His name was bracketed with that of William ("Foxey") Bancroft (1878) and Gerry ("Killer") Cassedy (1933), the only two other oarsmen in Harvard annals who ever...