Word: workouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Tom Bolles, hoping to maintain a record marred by only three defeats in nine years of guiding Crimson oarsmen, yesterday afternoon put his Varsity through a short workout in preparation for today's inaugural. "They look pretty good," he said. "In their last trial, the Varsity eight registered their best time of the season, but they are still a green crew...
...There's going to be an open season for replacements in the first crew," Coach Tom Bolles commented dryly in Newell Boat House after yesterday afternoon's workout. "Despite the fact that this was our best time of the year, in many ways it was our worst relative performance," he said...
...just two deep breaths, Army's football-wonders blew down Notre Dame, 48-0. Since second-and third-stringers sufficed for nearly half the game, Army's touchdown twins, Glenn ("Speedster") Davis and Felix ("Blockbuster") Blan-'chard, were still in the market for a good stiff workout. Last week's Scoreboard indicated that they might get one, or even two, in their upcoming games with Pennsylvania and Navy. Penn pricked Columbia's little bubble (32-7) and Navy finally lived up to pre-season raves by walloping Michigan (33-7). Some experts, squinting hard, thought...
...race. Despite a change in jockeys and a jinx, the horse causing the highest rise in temperatures was Hoop Jr., a satchel-headed bay that won an easy six-length triumph at Louisville. There was no standout challenger until midweek, when Pavot turned in a sensational 1:59⅓workout (for a mile and three-sixteenths). By Saturday, 30,000 fans who shoved into Pimlico for the Preakness had just about forgotten that there were seven other entries...
...called Polynesian. He was even pulling away at the end of his upset $66,170 race. Hoop Jr., three times second in three previous races over the Baltimore track, finished second and lame- 0 and 1 half lengths back. Far off last year's championship form (and his workout), Pavot ran an unexciting fifth, helped to make the feverish search for a three-year-old champion even harder...