Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at the Oakland Hills Country Club in Birmingham, Mich., Golfer Guldahl had another short putt on the 18th green of his last round in the Open. This time he sank it. This time it meant not only winning the championship but doing it by two strokes, 281 to Sam Snead's 283, and breaking by a stroke the record Open score set by Tony Manero last year...
...nose out the Junior Varsity in spite of a magnificent kick which the jayvees showed near the finish line. The time was 9:49. A few minutes later the Yale Jayvees rowed over the same course four seconds slower, their clocking being 9:53 in spite of a higher stroke which they rowed...
Harvard strategy, it was learned last night, will be to let the Yales lead for the first mile, but at that point it is expected that Harvard, rowing a lower stroke, will pass them and should hold its advantage. The Harvard stroke in practice and time trials has been continually lower than Yale...
Yale went for its first time trial this afternoon, and were clocked at 20:02, This is slightly faster than Harvard's first time, but the Ellis rowed higher during most of the course. On Saturday Spike Chace, Crimson stroke, kept the count at 32 most of the way, while Johnson, Yale pace-setter, stayed around 33 or 34. Yale is longer at the reach and lays back further, with slight sousing of the bow as a result...
Yale Has Higher Stroke...