Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-low stroke controversy came up again. Skip Walz had won the '46 EARC race at Wisconsin with his high stroking unit, while Harvard had finished ninth. Although most of the U.S. crews had by now adopted the low stroke, the high stroke advocate Walz went to coach Yale and in his first year pulled a number of unexpected upsets. Then he came up against Harvard in the EARC 2000-metre first heats at Princeton...
...court test of the growing business of record-pirating. In five years, said Columbia's President James B. Conkling, his men have tracked down the pirating of some 30 different brand-name records. Up to now, Columbia had never been able to sue because the pirate firms would skip town or change their names...
...first test match, 109-54. In the second match, the U.S. did better, only lost 94-83. The Scotsmen played a camay, conservative game, in sharp contrast to the generally slam-bang U.S. style. The Scots used blockade tactics in front of the scoring circle until the skip, comparable to cleanup batter in baseball, could send his final stone down to nudge his teammates' into the bull...
...Glasgow bonspiel, one U.S. "rink" (team), skipped by Frank Van Epps of Portage, Wis., salvaged U.S. prestige by winning, 24-12. Van Epps produced the shot of the day. Two Scots stones, placed about a foot apart, guarded the scoring circle. While Van Epps lined up his shot, Detroit Lawyer John Ritter McKinlay acted as temporary skip to give Van Epps the proper strategy...
...That's the way to play the game," shouted McKinlay to his grinning skip. The Scot skip was less demonstrative. Soberly he raised his broom, the curler's signal for a well-played shot...