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...years (1797-1835) the overland wilderness route known as the Natchez Trace was the best but most dangerous road from New Orleans to the Midwest. Ol' Man Mississippi brought the cargoes down, but it was more than sail or paddle could do to get all the way upstream again. The gold went back in saddle bags over the narrow, bandit-infested trail stretching from Natchez, Miss, to Knoxville, Tenn...
...upstream course, returning from the bridge this afternoon, they rowed a very slow stroke for about a half-mile, then raising it gradually to 35 or 36 as they drew near the end of the course. F. A. Clark '29, captain last year, observed a great deal of the workout from a single, when he arrived at the pier several minutes after the crews...
Gales Ferry, Conn., June 6--The Yale first and second University crews headed upstream for two miles in the first workout of the day today. Rowing in the face of a brisk breeze, the Eli eights matched strokes for short distances together under the watchful eye of Coach Leader...
...crew rowed down below the Tech Boat House in the Basin at a fast paddle, stopping at the Tech float before starting upstream again to let T. E. Armstrong '32 take the place of F. F. Colloredo-Mansfeld '32, who is suffering from a minor ailment which makes rowing on stretches uncomfortable. With Armstrong at stroke, the eight rowed upstream at little more than a fast paddle gradually increasing their speed until they had come into the stretch above the Western Avenue Bridge, where they raised their stroke steadily to about 40 to the minute...
...race scheduled for yesterday afternoon between the two crews to be sent to Philadelphia was indefinitely postponed on account of the illness of J. M. Byrne '31. Instead the Third University crew rowed against time over an upstream mile-and-three-quarters course...