Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officially, the Washington v. California race starts the U. S. rowing season. Actually, it often makes more highly-publicized regattas that follow an anticlimax. Since 1921, with two exceptions, Washington or California has been either first or second in every Poughkeepsie regatta, against the best competition in the U. S. California crews won the Olympic championship in 1928 and 1932 but this year Washington's Coach Al Ulbrickson felt sure of eight sophomores he had retained as a unit from last year's powerful freshman boat. Said he, before the boats lined up last week on Oakland Estuary...
Bert Haines, Freshman coach refereeing the regatta, will start the festivities at 2 o'clock when he orders his first boat to "Row!" against Coach Charlie Whiteside's eight over the new mile and three quarters course ending just off the Union Boat Club...
With a race between two Harvard shells as an opener the crew season begins today at 2 o'clock. The occasion is the informal regatta in the basin in which three Crimson shells will race with three boats from Manhattan College...
Features of the celebration are an All-Australia Exhibition, an agricultural show, dedication of a National War Memorial, Henley regatta, Australian Derby, many another bigtime sporting event. More important was the arrival in Melbourne last week of the Duke of Gloucester aboard the cruiser Sussex...
Until 1895, when the Poughkeepsie Regatta started, the winner of the Har-vard-Yale race was considered the best crew in the U. S. As the athletic import of the race declined, its social prestige increased. Last week more than half of the commissioned yachts in Eastern waters were crowded into the mouth of the Thames. Biggest were boats like Carl Tucker's Migrant (661 tons), Arthur Curtiss James's Aloha (659 tons), Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro (1,333 tons). J. P. Morgan's Corsair (2,181 tons), like Gerard B. Lambert...