Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boatings are also set for the rest of the season. The boat's line-up consist of captain Brian Sullivan, cox; Joe Bracewell, stroke; Bill Braun, 7; Rob Wolff, 6; Ken Miller, 5; Fred Fisher, 4; Jim Gerrity, 3; Joe McPherson, 2; and Chris Cutler...
...third varsity shell races Amherst today at Amherst. Ian Gardiner, last year's varsity stroke, who rowed bow last Saturday, will stroke the third boat today. Coach Harry Parker made the switch in the middle of last week's workouts...
...sports are so rulebound as tournament golf. A competitor can be penalized for carrying more than 14 clubs in his bag (two strokes for each excess club), for accidentally moving a ball (one stroke), for playing too slowly (two strokes), or for wiping mud off his ball (two strokes). Yet few are so strict or so harsh in their application as Rule No. 38, which holds a player responsible for the accuracy of his scorecard -even though he does not keep his own score. His opponent does: each player checks his score, then both sign the card, attesting...
Died. The Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, 86, controversial Episcopal clergyman, editor since 1922 of The Churchman, an influential monthly unofficially allied with the Episcopal Church; of a stroke; in Arcadia, Calif. A rebel from his student days at New York's General Theological Seminary, Shipler spent a lifetime being for or against virtually every cause that crossed his ken; he supported voluntary euthanasia and liberal divorce laws, feuded with the Roman Catholic Church by stating that Yugoslavia's Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac was a "quisling collaborator of Hitler." Indeed, after World War II, The Churchman was accused of leaning...
...meters from the finish a Harvard oarsman "caught crab" dipping his oar in too quickly and throwing off the stroke cadence. The crew just barely maintained its lead to edge out M.I.T...