Word: sculling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dennison's sculling program follows the pattern of last year's informal races which had four divisions among single scull oarsmen and separate classes for compromise sculls and wherrles. Rowing--in heats where necessary--will start Monday, August 11, and continue daily to the finals on Thursday, August...
Among the four single scull racing divisions, Senior Singles is limited to members of the exclusive Thirty Minute Club at the Weld Boat Club. The admission requirement is to row to the Anderson Bridge and back--a total of four miles--in 30 minutes or less...
...neophyte singles oarsman must spend at least ten minutes on the practice rigs before he is allowed to take the safest of three available single-blade boats at Weld--the wherry. The wherry is the widest of the three, measuring 19 inches in width. The single scull is the narrowest at 12 inches and in between is the compromise--or comp--at 14 inches...
...goes, so far as the Chicago bureau is concerned. It was the need for this kind of local-national coverage that moved TIME to open its first out-of-town news bureau -in Chicago - 17 years ago. Now, under Bureau Chief Penrose Scull, it is a funnel for the news of the U.S.'s second largest city and the great slice of the Midwest stretching out from it. By virtue of being there, Chicago bureaumen, working closely with TIME correspondents in major cities within their area, can be expected to supply
...yesterday's wherry event started out with four men. In addition to Judkins and Turner, there were Fred Hafka of Leverett House and Jon Cavarnos, unattached. But when the four closely-bunched wherries had traveled half the distance, an un-identified half the distance, an un-identified single scull with a middle-aged oarsman at the sweeps joined the race and rowed easily in his trim craft beside the leading, but more clumsy wherry...