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Soon after, Hawkins and his family found their cars were being vandalized. The family began keeping watch for hooligans outside the store. Last Sept. 11, Hawkins ran off eight youths who were trying to steal a radio and bicycles from a woman and three children. Minutes later, one of the youths, Anttwon Thomas, reputedly a member of a local street gang called the Bounty Hunters, entered Hawkins' store and was ordered to leave by Hawkins' son James Jr. During the ensuing fight, a sawed-off shotgun went off, shattering Thomas' chest. Mortally wounded, the youth fled...
With hundreds of boats crowding the river, the regatta was not without its mishaps and close calls. There were many near collisions and locked oars as boats jockeyed for position. The worst accident occurred when the South Niagara Youth Eight team crashed into the Eliot Street bridge a half-mile from the end of the three-mile upstream course. Moments later the boat was cut in two by Andover's entry. The boats were unable to move and had to be towed to shore...
Turns are often downfall of experienced and rookie coxswains alike. Joe Dougherty, an MIT sophomore, coxed in the youth eights competition when he was a senior at Atlantic City High School. In the four-mile odyssey, the boat passed two other crews, then "two of them crashed in front of me into bridges," then a boat just ahead moved so the Atlantic City boat could pass, then careened into yet another span...
...even his debut on the international rowing scene. Hanson first rowed at the age of 10, but didn't become serious about the sport until 1979, when he started training on a river near his home in Mississauga. Ontario. A year later, he finished ninth in sculling at the Youth World Championships in Belgium...
...bronze medal at the world championships last August in Duisburg. West Germany, and sports a litany of crew honors--six times on the U.S. national team, his two Olympic appearances, a 1970 trip to the World Youth Rowing Championships in Greece, and a total of five visits to the Royal Henley Regatta in England Wood definitely is the bettor's pack...