Word: regattas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last meeting of the Schoolboy Rowing Association it was decided to hold the annual Schoolboy Regatta, which is sponsored by Harvard, in the Charles River Basin on Saturday June 1. The event which is open to all preparatory schools in the vicinity of Boston, is held each year to stimulate interest in schoolboy rowing. This year the race for the eights will be divided into two heats, one for private schools and the other for public schools. In the four-oared crew race, however, both divisions will row in the same heat...
...first race of the year will be on May 4 against M. I. T. on the Charles River course. This will be followed by a race with Cornell over the same course on May 11 and a triangular regatta with the United States Naval Academy and Pennsylvania at Annapolis on May 18. The annual race with Yale will, as usual, be held on the Thames in the latter part of June...
...third post open is that of manager of the 150 pound crew and is rewarded by the insignia of the light Freshman eight. In addition the spring regatta committee is chosen from among the remaining manager candidates...
...Jointly harkened to a Speech from the Throne, proroguing Parliament to Nov. 6. The Speech was sonorously read by Baron Hogg of Hailsham, rotund Lord High Chancellor, because His Majesty, a keen yachtsman, was en route to Cowes for the famed annual Regatta...
...George W. Button Jr., of Manhattan and Darien, Conn., was master of ceremonies at a seaplane and motorboat regatta last week. He stood on the dock, signalled for the start, uttered a cry of sudden pain. A burning wad from the little brass cannon, used as a starting gun, had penetrated his left leg to a depth of one inch...