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...annual election meeting of the University Glee Club, held last evening immediately after the closing Yard concert of this season, the following officers were elected: president, David Dodge Boyden '32, of Boylston; vice-president, John Beckford Woodworth '32, of Cazenovia, New York; secretary, Norwood Pierson Beveridge '32, of Dorchester. Boyden and Woodworth have served as accompanists for the Club during the past year, while Beveridge has been a member of the Club for the past three years...
...Scott '31, head manager of the Harvard crew for the present season has announced the election of Arthur Vernon Woodworth, Jr. '33, of Boston, to the position of second assistant manager. At the same time Theodore Winthrop Stedman; Jr. '33, of Springfield, was named second associate manager. Woodworth will accompany the University squad to Red Top Sunday, and will next year become assistant manager. He will be head manager his Senior year. Stedman is also to go to Red Top this spring, and will become associate manager his Junior year. That position is now occupied by D. B. W. Brown...
...Woodworth had with him his sweater with the varsity "N" (Northwestern) on it. That might bring him luck. It had in football. He never wore a headguard but he never got hurt. Knute Rockne of Notre Dame had respected the Northwestern team, called Woodworth one of the greatest guards in the country. But outboard motor racing is different from football; the whole thing depends on your engine more than yourself. No use fooling with your gas on a race as long as this; leaded or etherized gas has speed but lacks power, and Woodworth needed power to make the light...
...Poughkeepsie bridge, Rhymer was leading. Behind Woodworth came a splash, then silence; the third boat had tipped over, must have hit a wave. At West Point, Rhymer ducked in for gas. All right, thought Woodworth, pull in with him. There's the gas pumped out into the feeder, ready on the dock...
Rhymer gained a minute at West Point but in Haverstraw Bay, Woodworth caught him. When he passed the finish line at 155th Street, his average time for the distance was 41.9 m. p. h., course record for outboards. Second in his class, fifth in the actual finish was Jonah Stevens, lucky for once. Three other racers broke last year's time for the race...