Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boatswain James R. Ingraham, commanding a Coast Guard picket boat, shouted through the gloom of an early Florida morning last week at a fast little craft he had spotted on Biscayne Bay. "All right," came back a faint reply, but the boat, instead, went shooting off up Miami River...
...picket boat pursued. Boatswain Ingraham turned to Fireman's Mate Harold Lopes. "Fire a few shots across her bow," he ordered. "Aim at the superstructure of the new bridge across the river...
During the past week, a strong wind has made the waters of the Charles River Basin too rough for any conclusive trials but the three crews have been over the course several times...
...weeks from tomorrow Harvard will have its second race of the season when it races over the Charles River Basin course with Cornell, which promises to be better than the eight turned out from Ithaca in recent years. The resemblance of the old Courtney swing is evident in the 1929 eight which has easily triumphed over the Jayvee outfit in all of this season's rows. Reports from Ithaca warn that Cornell is a crew to be watched...
Last year Coach Wray's men were defeated by Harvard in a triangular regatta with Tech over the Charles River Basin course but the race two weeks from tomorrow will be a dual affair. Cornell did not show up very well at the Poughkeepsie Regatta last June although the crew was leading the field at the mile mark. A return to a period of championship crews resembling the great eights of Coach Courtney's long regime is hailed by the followers of the oarsmen from Lake Cayuga...