Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When both of Tom Bolles' eights swept across the finish line better than four lengths ahead of Yale on the Charles Saturday, the Crimson's first formal season of racing since 1943 was automatically insured against being labelled a flop. Now, no matter what happens in the forthcoming regatta on Lake Washington June 22, and despite what was at best a spotty record before the Eli race, the big question that makes the difference in any Harvard athletics--"did you beat Yale?"-- will have the right answer...
After getting out of the tanks and onto the river March 11, the Varsity crew spent a hectic two months trying to fit the right man in the right seat for the quadrangular race against Cornell, Princeton, and M.I.T. on May 4. Stroked by Lou Cox, who replaced be-measled Toby Ross two days before the meet, the Varsity boat finished strongly, with enough of a kick to catch Princeton in the last half mile but not enough power to head a strong Cornell eight; M.I.T. finished last. On the same day, the Jayvees were nosed by Princeton and Bert...
During the next week of preparation for the Annapolis race Boon Chanler was elected captain and the spectre of measles and fevers of unidentified origin continued to make life miserable for Bolles. The two heavy crews he sent to Annapolis had collectively lost four men more before they ever reached the starting line. With the dice loaded against them, the Varsity boat brought up the tail end in the nine-way regatta (won by Wisconsin) and suffered the ignominy of trailing both M.I.T. and Princeton, their meat of a week before. In their race, the Jayvees did a little better...
...Races," wrote Queen Victoria to her gadabout son Edward, "have become so bad of late, and the connection with them has ruined so many young men." In her reign the royal stables were no great shakes, but Victoria did keep her house in order. Last week over her birthday (May 24) the good Queen would have been horrified to see her respectable great-grandson George filling his pockets with race-track winnings (see above) while his household went...
...first, it looked like another self-imposed exile. Last summer, moody Joe McCarthy had gone over the hill in the heat of the pennant race, talked vaguely about resigning, and came back three weeks later. This time, he resigned and meant it. Said he: "I've been in this business for 40 years . . . that's a long time...