Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crazy thing to do. Ray had never run a long race. No middle distance runner has ever been a great marathon runner; it is easier for a man who has never done any running at all to learn long distance pacing than for a sprinter to change his style to the loping, shuffling steps, between a run and a walk, used by marathon racers. Ray didn't try to change his style. He stepped out on his toes, pulling up his knees, as if the finish line were a mile away, and it was clear that he meant...
...correspondence in The Sun this morning Mr. H. W. Nevinson undertakes to generalize on the subject of Oxford and Cambridge. Oxford men, he discovers, are introverts and Cambridge men extraverts, and thus explains to his own satisfaction why Cambridge has continually beaten Oxford in the boat race and in other sports during recent years. The contention is at least not without interest. Are such generalizations possible with regard to American universities...
...first two 150 pound crews in their second race of the week, also took advantage of smooth waters in the Basin and the first shell, stroked by James de Normandie '29, finished the Henley distance in seven minutes and 19 seconds, defeating by four lengths the second eight, which had started the race with a two length handicap. Coach C. S. Heard '25 intends to change the men in the second boat after the race between the third and fourth crews this afternoon...
Turned back from the Charles River Basin course again by turbulent seas, the two University crews and the Ineligible eight voyaged upstream yesterday afternoon for a two-mile handicap race...
Coach E. J. Brown '96 is now getting his men in shape for the race with M. I. T. on May 5 and will stage another trial contest in the Basin on Saturday to condition his crews for the straightaway pull. After this work-out, he will select the coxswain for the first University crew. The four leading candidates for the steersman's post are, at present, D. F. Baum '30, J. H. McCollum '28, C. H. Pforzheimer '28, and L. L. Wadsworth...