Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...17th fence and broke his neck. Stuart S. Janney Jr. on Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth's big, chestnut 12-year-old, Hotspur II, was leading when Trouble Maker went down. Captain Kettle, ridden by Charles R. White, trying for his third Maryland Hunt Cup victory in a row, came up fast as the field went over the last two jumps. On the home stretch, down a lane between red fences to hold the crowd back, the two fought through one of the brilliant finishes for which the Maryland Hunt Cup is famed. When it was over, Hotspur...
...aggregation last spring. Tom Whitney, who is setting the beat as well as captaining the boat, stroked two crews for the Crimson in his Freshman year when he took over the pace-setting position of the heavy yearlings after timing the Freshman fifties. Although he did not row last year, his experience may be able to make up for the fact that the men he now has behind him have yet to race together
John Austin, who rowed bow on the Freshman boat against Yale last year and who has been pulling the number two oar in the Drury shell for the past ten days, was unable to report yesterday and there is a possibility that he may not be able to row Saturday. Reports today will determine whether Austin will be allowed to return and oust Oliver Scott, who took over the position Saturday...
...that would more effectively scuttle the Associated Press than the proposals advanced by Mr. Neylan." The battle for proxies went on until last week, when it moved onto the floor of the incongruously elegant Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. His big frame draped over a front-row chair whence he could easily address barbed asides to President Noyes on the platform. Lawyer Neylan let a potent "lit tle fellow" open his attack for a five-point program. The little fellow was youthful J. Noel Macy, publisher of New York's Westchester County papers...
...more than that," yelled a Gifford rooter. One stockholder uprose with a plea "to end all troubles by voting the Republican ticket." Another suggested an educational program for the public and for legislators. "Did you call them legislators?'' fumed a little grey-haired man in the front row. "They're not legislators; they're inflated balloons...