Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunset at Troon, Scotland, on June 15 found A. G. Havers the winner by one stroke of the British open golf championship. That stroke separated him from Walter Hagen, titleholder. Third place went to MacDonald Smith of California; fourth, to Joe Kirkwood, Australian-born American...
Honors for individual brilliance were split by MacDonald Smith and Joe Kirkwood, who broke the course record with 69's the second morning. Gene Sarazen, American open champion, played himself out of the tournament by a single stroke in the qualifying rounds...
...choose between the combination eights. Both are regarded as only average crews, in contrast with 1922 when Yale had one of the best combination boats in many years and won easily by six lengths. Yale this year has the advantage of having all its men rowing the Leader stroke, while the Crimson combination, made up as it is of four University men rowing Coach Muller's stroke, and four Freshmen who till three weeks ago had been under the direction of Coach Bert Haines...
...this end Coach Muller abandoned the idea of a time-trial, originally scheduled for Saturday evening, and instead drove his men through several fast half-mile sprints. This work, he feels, will help materially in developing that speed of pull-through and consequent good proportion to the stroke which has been so conspicuously lacking in the University boat to date...
University B,--Bow, B. F. Rice-Bassett '25; C. K. Cummings '23; 3, R. F. Bradford '23; 4, J. D. Jameson '24; 5, G. R. Johnson '25; 6, H. S. Morgan '23; 7, Francis Fiske, '23; stroke, S. N. Brown '24; cox., B. H. Burnham...