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...longer classed as a rigger, Bert leaves his combination crew, which faces the Elis in the New London event, in the hands of Tom Boiles and Harvey Love. Also entered in the British race, the Yale lightweights will make the crossing on the same boat...
Haines Goes As Rigger...
Because regatta rules prohibit professional coaches from accompanying oarsmen in the yearly classic, Bert Haines will have to go along as a rigger, while Robert F. Herrick '90 takes over the mentor position...
...result either of hasty decision or of hasty preparation. Throughout his Western tour Franklin Roosevelt was in close touch with Washington. Well-worn pigskin Presidential mail pouches went to and from the train with incessant regularity. While he stopped beside a road in Washington to watch a "high-rigger" lumberjack lop the top off a fir tree, another kind of high-rigger slung a wire across the single telephone wire along the road, handed the instrument to the President's Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. Spadework on last week's speech was presumably done in the State Department by specialists...
...George Huntington Hartford's square-rigged sailing vessel Joseph Conrad with Alexis Troonin at the wheel; its Newport-to-Bermuda race with William S. Gubelmann's square-rigger Seven Seas; by arriving in Hamilton harbor 55 sec. ahead after racing 10 days, 1 hour, 57 sec. The Seven Seas challenged on the ground that the Joseph Conrad crossed the finish line under drive of an auxiliary engine, later withdrew its protest...