Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overcoming a one length lead which a Sophomore eight stroked by James Lawrence, Jr. '29 had gained in the early minutes of a mile and a half race, another 1931 crew with C. McK. Norton '29 in the stroke seat won out over five class crews in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon. The winning crew with the exception of the stroke was the same that was piloted to victory by R. I. McKesson '31 on Tuesday afternoon. The race was rowed from above the Cottage Farm Bridge to a point about a quarter of a mile beyond the Harvard...
...propitious for the Junior and Senior eights since both trailed the combination crew as well as the 1931 oarsmen. The 1930 eight stroked by McKesson rowed at a lower beat than its four rivals and although it came up fast at the finish the prow of the shell did not get beyond the waist of the combination crew boat. The latter with H. W. Sturges '30 in the stroke position was materially aided by a one length handicap...
...stroke of ill-luck, the one really pressing matter that came before the new Cabinet as soon as it was formed was a matter in the province of the one new Cabinet member who had not reached Washington?the new Secretary of State, Colonel Stimson. There was little doubt that the leaders of the Mexican revolt (see p. 27) timed their uprising in order to catch the new administration off its guard in hope that its support of the existent regime in Mexico would be weak...
...last chukker was filled with furious riding. Caswell of the Battery A team started things with a beautiful full-stroke goal made at top speed. W. F. Luton '32 soon retaliated with a counter for the Crimson, but Read and Norton put the game on ice for the Gunners with two more scores...
...Freshman meet on March 27 at 3.30 o'clock will be comprised of seven events: 100-yard relay race, diving "6", 50-yard free style, 50-yard back stroke, 200-yard free style, 100-yard breast stroke, and 100-yard free style. The final champions will be the winners of the University meet, open to all students, which is scheduled for 3.30 o'clock on April 3. Seven events also will be staged in this last competition, and will be the same as those in the Freshman contests save for the diving, in which the men will make eight dives...