Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beat higher than normal, over the short sprint course which measures just under a mile and a quarter. He planned no changes in his seatings in the varsity, stroked in both previous wins by Fritz Schwarz. The junior varsity and freshman eights will also compete in the 38 crew regatta...
...Bobby Whilden and Frank Daugherty ran the quarter-mile in 40.1, a tenth of a second under the world mark set last May. ¶ Understroking Pennsylvania all the way, Princeton's varsity crew whipped the Quakers by a length and a quarter in the two-mile Childs Cup Regatta on New York's Harlem River. Added to its impressive victory over Navy and Navy's resuscitated 1952 world champions (TIME, April 23), the performance established Princeton as a leading contender for the U.S. Olympic rowing assignment...
Olympic trials and the historic McMillan Cup Regatta will open the Yacht Club season this weekend...
...himself-in business, sports and politics. As a young boy, he went to work carrying hods for his brother, a brick contractor. In his spare time he practiced rowing on the Schuylkill, became proficient enough to try for the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Britain's Henley Royal Regatta in 1920. He was turned down, though; as a former bricklayer, he was not considered a gentleman. Kelly beat the Diamond Sculls winner just the same, at the Olympics two months later, and sent his stained sculling cap to King George V as a booby prize...
Latest work for Spencer's proposed chapel is a series on Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta. For one panel, Listening from Punts (see cut), Spencer has drawn on his boyhood memories of Edwardian regatta-goers who arrived for river-barge concerts. "From people listening to Bach," says he, "it's not such a long step to people listening to Christ. It's almost the same, nearly there. So I decided to make it Christ preaching a sermon." Spencer liked the idea so much that he plans to repeat the subject on the other side of the Thames...