Word: raritan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back in 1913, a young undertaker named John A. Maxwell played golf with two companions on the Raritan Valley Country Club course, Somerville, N. J. As they approached the tenth green, a thunderstorm broke. A forked tongue of lightning licked the fairway, kicked all three players on to their backs, ripped one golf bag down the middle. None of the players was injured. Last week, on the same fairway of the same golf course, in the corresponding week of the corresponding month, at the same time of day (about 3:15 p.m.) Golfer Maxwell was struck down and killed...
Next came the Jayvees, according to official time, who spaced out two and a half lengths over the M. I. T. eight and a deck-length more over the Raritan boys. Spike Chace's men won by three lengths with the Tech boat trailing the Scarlet oarsmen by a length...
With a new Pecock shell the Rutgers boat is considered the best ever launched since rowing began as a sport on the Raritan. A light crew (172 1/2), the Scarlet blades have been whipped into shape by Chuck Legg, Washington oarsman and onetime Princeton coach...
Four years ago a passer-by along the shores of the New Jersey's Raritan River would have seen two crews racing down the Herley course against each other. One boat was a second hand gig lent by Lawrenceville Preparatory School for the occasion, and the other a similar purchased boat from Princeton. In the boats were the first and second crews of Rutgers University...
...famed Washington style that Harvard men suddenly realized was good last Saturday afternoon. That Logg is having the same success with the type of rowing Tom Bolles teaches was forcefully seen last Saturday when the Rutgers Varsity battled through rough water in a moonlight race on the Raritan to trim the oarsmen from Manhattan College...