Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under fair water conditions four Varsity boats, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Harvard, rowed up to a flying start for a two mile race, while thunderheads were threatening overhead. At the mile rain curtained the boats as they rowed down the course, Harvard out ahead with the largest early lead of any contest this season. Syracuse was second, followed by Penn, with the Big Red trailing the fleet...
...familiar faces will be missing when track operations start next year. Bob Gammons, Fred Ulen, Franny King (the game number two quarter-miler), Bob Haydock, Al Hanlon, Ros Brayton, and Fulton Cahners will have graduated. Chick Oldfather is transferring to No-breaks...
...same type of race as the Navy crew did on the Charles. Under-stroking Yale consistently, the Big Red showed a strong middle race with good spacing and power, passing the Elis for about a half length at mid-race. However, the men from Ithaca were weak at the start and were outdone by a withering forty sprint from the Blue at the finish. There is reason to believe that the Crimson is capable of duplicating the Yale strong start and finish race...
...third, Bowen singled to start things off for the Big Red and scored ahead of George Polzer when the latter poled out a long homer far over Gene Lovett's head in deep left field. Healey was driven from the box in the fourth as Finneran and Brown connected for singles with a sacrifice hit by Sickles sandwiched in between to account...
...lift the production above the gloominess of its surroundings and give it not only a large dose of social conscience, but the powerful entertainment value that comes of great tragedy. Those forces which could have killed the picture so easily,--the greyness and desolation of the set, the start, decadence of the characters,--were capitalized on by Powell to give the picture the incredible strength which it possesses...