Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Results of comparative races favor the Crimson eight over the two-mile course which runs beside the Wisconsin campus and almost to the city shore-line. The Badgers' sophomore-laden crew finished third behind Navy and Cornell in its opener on Lake Onondaga and fifth behind fourth-place Harvard in the Eastern Sprints last week...
...tomorrow's conditions are poor on Lake Mendota, the race can be run a mile away on the lee shore of Lake Monona, one of three lakes which surround Madison. Every effort, however, will be made to hold the duel on the regular course which runs eastward along the University shoreline, past the Boat House and Fraternity-Sorority Row, and affords spectators an excellent view...
Sculling up the Charles, Stanley C. Baker and Edward A. Lottick were hailed from the bank below Weeks Bridge by an elderly couple, who pointed to an object afloat 30 feet off shore...
...scullers rowed over, to find the body of an elderly woman floating face down. Pushing with their ears, they maneuvered the body close to the shore, landed, and summoned the police...
...boil of Gulf Stream finally points to pogy, and the men in the small boats close their quarter-mile ring of net to draw it in, the menhaden suddenly "thunder" (i.e., make a quivering mass surge) and split the net. Captain Crother follows another school too close to shore, promptly loses a second net when its base is sucked fast into the sandy ocean floor. Still another catch has to be let go when baby sharks begin to shred a third net. In final irony, the Moona Waa Togue is almost within hail of home port with her decks piled...