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...Yellow River front, their drive on Hankow halted, Japanese armies still waited for the flood waters of "China's Sorrow" to subside. South on the Yangtze River, the main naval drive upstream on Hankow received a temporary setback at Matang, where the Chinese had blocked the stream with a boom. Finally, aided by the rising river waters, a few vessels nosed across and at week's end had pushed their way to Pengtseh, some 175 miles from Hankow...
There last week, with the same conviviality and commotion of 75 Race Days before it, an undefeated Harvard crew met an undefeated Yale crew for the four-mile race on the Thames-upstream this year from the railroad bridge to Bartlett's Cove. It was the first time since 1934 that either college had an undefeated crew. Harvard was the favorite because: 1) it had defeated every major crew in the East this spring (Navy, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and M.I.T.); 2) its boating had remained unchanged all season; 3) it had as stroke James Fletcher ("Spike...
...time was 20 min. 20 sec., a full 18 seconds slower than the upstream record which Harvard set last year, but the 50,000 spectators who witnessed the race agreed that they had seen one of the finest crews in rowing history and one of the greatest stroke oars of all time. Spike Chace, son of a Park Avenue physician, rowing his last race for Harvard, was the hero of the day. His name was bracketed with that of William ("Foxey") Bancroft (1878) and Gerry ("Killer") Cassedy (1933), the only two other oarsmen in Harvard annals who ever...
...Bolles led the Crimson rowing squad into their Red Top headquarters Saturday afternoon and three hours after the arrival the Varsity shells were moving upstream, testing the current on the Thames River...
...undistinguished time trial over the mile and three-quarters distance yesterday, the Jayvee eight outclassed the Varsity in form although succumbing to the latter's power. The workout was directed over a six-mile course to the Basin and back with the sprint stretch rowed upstream...