Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more businesslike, was a real water baby. He ran passengers in his father's launch before he was old enough to start the engine; his aquatic stunts earned him the title of "the baby water wizard." As Gar Wood's mechanic he won many a race in boats built by his father.* Chris-Crafts tenders are popular among yachtsmen (General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan recently bought one for his new yacht, the René) because the hardware and woodwork of each one is contrived to harmonize with that of the mother ship. Of every 100 Chris-Craft...
...race for Class Day Committee, James Gordon Douglas Jr., of New York City, was first; the remaining six members of the committee finished in the following order: William Thomson Wetmore, of New York City; Josiah Warren Potter, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Foster Stone Davis, of Concord; New Hampshire; Vincent Lawrence Hennessy, of Brookline: Charles Beaman Lakin, of Scarsdale, New York: James Lindsay Ware, of Cambridge...
Ever since the resignation of E. J. Brown '96 as head coach immediately following the Harvard-Yale race at New London last June, Mr. Bingham has been interviewing coaches from all parts of the country with a view to securing their services for Harvard. The announcement last night would appear to be the culmination of Mr. Bingham's efforts in this direction. It has been clearly understood that H. H. Haines, Freshman coach, who has been in charge of the University crew this fall did not desire the position of head coach next spring, although he offered to take...
...Whiteside is a graduate of Syracuse University and rowed there as a member of the Freshman and University crews. He was coach of the Syracuse Freshman crew which won first place in the Freshman race at the Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta at Poughkeepsie last June. At Syracuse it is understood that he never rowed on a losing crew. His home formerly was in Duluth, Minnesota. He is about 36 years of age. He will report at Harvard next week...
...Wilson: "It is not some faded whimsicality that induces me to include Wilson ... in these studies, and to end with him, but the conviction that so alone can the structure be roofed. . . . Whereas . . . every other adventurer has fought for himself . . . Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race...