Word: sculling
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...imagine how that John Hart used to do it. Won three years running on a balloon tired bike. Senior year he won the bike race and then rowed a scull four miles in record time later in the afternoon. Just staggering...
Jack Kelley, Jr., winner of every major U.S. singles scull race and the Diamond Sculls at Henley, England nearly met defeat Saturday afternoon from two unheralded Crimson oarsmen...
...understand this conflict, one must realize that through the ages the shape and form of the single scull have changed remarkably little. True, form time to time artisans have managed to make them thinner and lighter, and this year the boathouse has added a fiberglass shell. But the basic concept of rowing has not changed...
...both got me," I said, tossing two enormous rocks out of the scull...
...second part of the anti-scull cycle is best termed the machine age. Even the most accurate of rock throwers had to remain stationary on the river side. But with the advent of Robert Fulton, the Charles River mechanized. Motor boats, big and small, appeared, oblivious to the frail Harvard students and their frail craft. If formerly one had only to row to the other side to escape a rock, now the boats and their over-present waves were all over the river. To add to the sculler's confusion, there are several types of motor boats...