Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement made yesterday the first and University 150 pound crews will spend part of the spring vacation period in training at the Kent School in Kent, Conn. Kent Shell ad material will be used by the University oarsmen, who on April 20 will oppose the schoolboys in an informal race...
Under ideal conditions the four crews of the A squad staged their first real race of the season over the one and three quarters mile course in the basin late yesterday afternoon. Stroked by J. H. Hall '27, crew C came out in front by a margin of two lengths over crew B, stroked by C. McK. Norton '29. Crews D and A finished in third and fourth places...
...races of Yucatan, Morocco, and Lapland, including race mixture and race analysis, is now being studied by Dr. E. A. Hooton, of the Department of Anthropology, it was made known yesterday...
Died. Prince Scipione Borghese, 56, seven times a prince, six times a duke, seven times a marquis, twice a count, once a baron, overlord of twelve towns; from progressive paralysis, in Florence. With Luigi Barzini,- he won the famed Peking-to-Paris automobile race...
...early fall at Oxford the president of each college boat club nominates whom he considers the two best oarsmen in his club, the coaches nominate other men whom they consider promising and from this group three so-called trial eights are formed. From this time until the big race there is hard work but there is lacking that tendency of driving which is evident in the American coaching system and which ultimately gives the American crew the impression of being a machine. But the Oxford or Cambridge eight gradually becomes a crew which for watermanship, blade work and power...