Word: sculler
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Died. James Pilkington, 78, of Manhattan, oldtime policeman, Civil War veteran, contractor, boxer, wrestler, trapshooter, sculler, oarsman, bowler, trackman; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1879, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Athlete Pilkington won the national amateur championship in both boxing and wrestling on the same night...
...sculler on the Charles defies an English river, fit for nothing but the languid progress of punts, to show such interest and variety within a few short miles. He has no patience with those who would reduce the banks of the stream to the insipid beauty of a city park. It is a dirty stream, to alien eyes an unattractive stream, but it is peculiarly...
...Washington eights into such prominence at the Poughkeepsie regatta. After a wide search, Stevens was finally selected. Although he did not have any previous coaching experience, Mr. Stevens rowed in the Cornell varsity shell to two years in 1908 and 1909 and had achieved considerable reputation as a single sculler...
...Metropolitan Police will resume, dragging of the Charles today in search of the body of R. R. Proctor '27, the Freshman sculler who disappeared last Monday afternoon, an announcement from the headquarters of the Brighton district revealed last night. Other work forced the police to discontinue operations Saturday and Sunday...
That Proctor was not an experienced sculler is the consensus of opinion of bystanders who watched him leave Weld boat house about 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. In the eyes of one observer, his evident inexperience was so marked as to call for comment, since he nearly tipped over twice-before getting through the arch of the Anderson Bridge...