Word: regattas
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...annual fall sculling regatta, consisting of races in three distinct classes, will be held next week on Wednesday and Thursday, October 24 and 25. The purpose is to give men of less experience an opportunity to win a race over men with the same amount of experience The wherry race is open to men who have never rowed a comp or a single and is meant especially for the inexperienced men. The comp race is open to all men who have never rowed a single and the last class is the open race, an unlimited event in which anyone...
...meeting of all men who plan to enter this regatta will be held at the Varsity Club at 7 o'clock on Monday, October 22. At this meeting the entrants will draw lots for the boats. The regatta is in charge of Coach Edward Wachter who has been coaching the scullers this fall. Coach Fred Newell, the 150-pound crew coach, will be referee of the races, which will be held on the Charles just above the Stillman Infirmary over a course of one-half a mile. Medals will be awarded to all the winners...
These crews will be considerably shifted as the men become more accustomed to their positions and in the final arrangement by Coaches Bert Haines and Bill Haines they will hold an interdormitory regatta that will probably take place on Monday and Tuesday, November 5 and 6. After the regattas have been held and the regular season closed for most crews some men will be permitted to row in sculls and a few eights will continue to cow as long as the weather permits...
With this regatta as the present goal, from ten to twelve 150-pound crews will go on the water this afternoon in three shifts at 3.15, 4, and 5 o'clock. These crews have been arranged as nearly as possible to make them all of equal strength. These same crews with few changes will hold an intra-150-pound regatta, in heats if necessary, on Thursday and Friday, October 18 and 19. This will be held over a quarter mile course since the men have had such a short while to get into condition. As a result of these races...
With a cut of the University rowing squad from four to three crews impending as the week-end approaches the interesting fact is presented by Coach Stevens that these crews will face three of Coach Newell's 150-pound crews on November 3 in a regatta that will wind up the fall rowing session on the Charles...