Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possiblity that Captain Spike Chace may not be able to row in the Adams Cup regatta against Navy and Penn tomorrow loomed last night as a threat to the Crimson's bid for the sprint title of the East...
...prospects of victory revolve around the performance of two strokes. On the one hand Spike Chace, praised by Coach Bolles as being one of the best oarsmen in intercollegiate rowing, leads the cool Crimson boat which has thus far cruised around 30 and 36 to outsprint Rutgers, Princeton, and Syracuse...
...that the Varsity "didn't really row their best race at Princeton," he makes no predictions on a Harvard victory Saturday on the Charles. "Anyone of the three crews, Cornell, Syracuse, and Harvard, can win," he said. In discussing the individuals of the first boat, he praised the captain, Spike Chace, "as an all-time great stroke...
When the Big Red of Cornell sweeps its mighty strokes through the Charles next Saturday, Spike Chace and the Crimson oarsmen are going to have their hands full trying to retain an undefeated title. The Tech men will be in there too, but their eight-length defeat by Harvard on Lake Carnegie proves they will not even count...
...opinion of blunt Manhattan Park Commissioner Robert Moses, "Barnum had his sacred white elephant and every fair is entitled to at least one theme tower." More irreverent remarks than this have been made about the esthetic and symbolic value of the Fair's great ball and spike. At the other extreme, the Fair's publicity department, whose lyricism is more than adequate to its task, has described the Perisphere as symbolic of the all-inclusive World of Tomorrow and the Trylon as a Pointer to Infinity. To the architects who designed the centre, however, the Perisphere and Trylon...