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Veto Kissel, a crunching fullback in the true Osmanski tradition, will undoubtedly get the nod at full. Bobby Farrell, a former Regimental sprint champ while at Boston English High, will be at right half for the Cross and, if the Crusaders receive, Walter Brennan will be pulling the QB strings of Ox DaGrosa's T-formation...
...lightweights, one of the strongest boats on the Charles last spring, not only captured the Goldthwaite Cup, emblematic of Big Three supremacy, but also won the Wright cup on the Charles over eight other boats, crushing Princeton with a bruising last-minute sprint...
...contestants spent most of each day riding in a good-natured cluster, taking turns sheltering each other from the wind, saving their strength for a late-afternoon sprint. The tour was broken into 21 laps, with overnight and one-day stops between (the cyclist with least total elapsed time is the winner). At frequent intervals, some of them sucked up wine by rubber hose from tankards on their handlebars. Ahead of the racers moved a cavalcade of commercials on wheels; behind came les suiveurs-masseurs, newspapermen, photographers. In some bombed towns, they had to be billeted in prisons and brothels...
Stroke-our Frank Cunningham, who pulled the crew to its major sprint victories at Princeton and Seattle and earned an all-star rating by a Seattle sportswriter, will have graduated both from the College and his little seat facing the coxswain. Gone too will be Captain Bob Stone, who was at four, and Stu Clark, at two. Significantly, from the balanced-boat angle, all three are starboard oarsmen...
...more--a winning crew from green hands. This year's eight, for example, had only two members with Varsity experience. If he intends to draw from this year's Jayvees, he will have the advantage of drawing from, tested oarsmen, for his number two boat captured the Eastern Intercollegiate sprint title for Junior Varsities while the Varsity was winning theirs. An unfortunate coincidence, however, is that Jayvee stroke, Oliver Filley, is already an alumnus...