Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shells for this afternoon's race are very evenly matched but the dope around the boathouse is that Rowe will take the race with Wagner, Dean and Comstock close behind him. Comstock who won last year by outrowing the famed Spike Chaco is a dark horso according to Harvey Love...
Fall rowing reached a new peak of popularity this year with over 270 oarsmen participating at Newell Boat House alone. Bert Haines has seven out of eight men in his championship 150-Ib. boat which went to England this summer. Spike Chace will be sorely missed in the varsity rowing this year, but Tom Bolles has four veterans-back from his last year's boat which was undefeated. Harvey Love has as good a turnout for fall rowing as he had last year and that's saying something...
Only four lettermen return this year: Captain Dud Talbot, Walt Kernan, Bob Stevens, and Vince Richards. One of the key positions left vacant is the stroke position held down by Spike Chace last year. Bill Rowe, pacesetter for the 1938 Jayvees is a likely candidate...
There is fear among some of its proponents that the Cambridge councilmen may spike the plan by not having a quorum at tonight's meeting, which would mean that the petition could not be sent to the Baliot Commission in time. The petition was not eligible for consideration before tonight's meeting since it had to be filed for 45 days previously...
...impromptu pressure group felt that if it could persuade Curley to assume a definitely liberal stand it could spike the Republican Liberal guns under Leverett Saltonstall '14, former speaker of the state House of Representatives...