Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santos three of the crew deserted and the Algic went on to Victoria, Brazil, without them. Denied shore-leave, four more men went over the side in the darkness, attempted to row to shore in a clumsy native dugout, capsized it within 150 feet, drowned Able Seaman Howell Gill of Savannah, Ga. On the return trip the Algic again put in at Jacksonville and there Stormy Petrel J. Hartley deserted and escaped. Last week the Algic docked in Baltimore, its 13,000 harassed miles the subject of a brief inquiry by the Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation. A three...
Princeton, Oct. 26--As the Tiger eleven reaches the half-way point in its 1937 schedule, it settles down to take on four tough opponents in a row, starting next Saturday with Harvard; and winding up with Dartmouth, Yale and Navy...
...during the War as a cavalry captain, Wallace Wade surprised his neighbors by entering the apparently unpromising profession of football coach and athletic director, at Fitzgerald & Clarke Military School (now defunct) at Tullahoma, Tenn. When Fitzgerald & Clarke football teams won the State prep-school championship two years in a row, Coach Dan McGugin asked him to come to Vanderbilt as his assistant...
Equipoise went on to become one of the greatest thoroughbreds of all time and the second largest money-winner in history. Four years in a row C. V. Whitney - called "Sonny" in sports headlines to distinguish him from his equally horsy first cousin, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney - won more prize money than any other owner in the country. But maintaining a racing establishment is expensive business. In 1926, when Trainer Jimmy Rowe was complimented on a $407,139 Whitney season, Rowe said: "Yes, Mr. Whitney had a pretty good year. I don't think his stable cost him more...
...second boat, again stroked by Bill Rowe, has had a different lineup almost every day due to the uncertainties of fall schedules. Last year's Freshmen have been kept intact and, being the only boat to row together consistently during the season, have shown rapid improvement and can usually give the varsity a good fight. Some of these sophomores may step into the varsity and are certain to crack the Jayvees, notably Stevens and Richards, now rowing 7 and 4 respectively...