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...snappy mid-week workout the Varsity oarsmen nipped the Freshman crew by half a length rowing upstream yesterday over the mile and three-quarters stretch...
Meanwhile on the Charles Tom Bolles was putting his Varsity boat through a four mile workout upstream as the Jayvees and Third crews took four two minute runs...
Each spring since 1918, when Benzie County (Mich.) Clerk Newt Ely found the creek near his house green with smelt struggling upstream from Lake Michigan to spawn, fishermen have flocked to brooks around the Great Lakes, have taken in 8,000,000 pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town...
...Harvard-Yale crew race, scheduled for June 24, will again be rowed upstream this Spring, starting at the drawbridge and ending at Bartlett's Cove. It will start at 6 o'clock, an hour earlier than usual, while in case of postponement will be rowed downstream the following morning. The Freshman and Jayvee races will be downstream...
Harvard, which last year was undefeated at the sprint distances except for Navy, losing then by a third of a length, and which defeated Yale on the Thames River at New London in a record-breaking upstream race, has great prospects again this year...