Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emmet, a first year Law student, fulfilled the expectations of Weld and of Newell, where he rowed on the varsity eight last year, by winning the three-quarter mile senior singles race. Reeling out a long, powerful stroke with a slow, lazy recovery to the half-mile mark, Emmet raised the stroke to 35 per minute on the last half-mile to outspurt Homer Zink, quarter-mile ace, by a boat length. The time: 5:10.0, the second best course time ever...
...smooth stroke with a long easy run paid off with first place in the other races, also. Fred Richardson nosed out faster-stroking Russ Bath by a half length in 3:32 in the half-mile 155-pound race. This race was closely contested by four scullers until the last 20 strokes when Richardson and Bath slowly and steadily pulled away...
...lack of official competition, the four hopes to enter the race open to quads. The Crimson entry for this race. Joe Eldridge, Heller, Gordy Abbott, and Allen, will be the fours only substantial worry if this shift is allowed by ARA officials. So far the ARA VIP's have not vetoed the plan. This quad has had little practice together but all are well versed in the plying of double oars...
...holds the advantage in a race between a quad and a four is a mute point. The variables: the efficiency of four oarsmen plying eight oars versus that of four oarsmen plying four; the speed and power derived from eight short oars versus that of four slightly longer oars; and the stability of a quad where the oarsmen are kept in balance by an equal and straight pull of both arms versus the tendency to roll that is always present in fours and eights...
Sailing three boats in each of four races on the Charles yesterday afternoon, the freshman yacht club defeated Andover, 55 to 50. The score was tied at 39 each at the start of the last race. Tom Carroll was top skipper with 24 out of a possible 28 points...