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Leverett earned show money, finishing about a length of open water behind the winner. The Bunnies got off to a bad start when their port side locked oars in a loving embrace with Dunster's starboard...
Bolles made one other recent change, with an eye to packing the powerful Don Felt into his starting lineup. The ex-stroke candidate now holds down the number two position, while that seat's former occupant, Ted Reynolds, is pulling at a starboard oar one slot down...
...facts to write lovingly of his subject: "A convoy is a beautiful thing. . . . The inner core of stolid merchantmen in column is never equally spaced, for each ship has individuality. . . . Around the column is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy...
...Chicago, Admiral of the Fleet William F. Halsey set style-minded citizens agoggle by firing his port & starboard guns and running up all his flags at once...
...their thunderous noise, the finely tuned machines soon began to show signs of fallibility. Once around the three-mile course and slightly in the lead, Tempo VI hit a floating obstacle in the rough water, ripping the fragile skin off its starboard front sponson; Lombardo had to slow up to prevent shipping too much water. Notre Dame, the 1937 Gold Cup winner, went on to win the first heat, then had engine trouble and missed the second entirely. Albin Fallon's Miss Great Lakes had engine trouble, fell behind; three other boats dropped out altogether...