Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Permission was given the second University crew, and the winning crew in the interclass race, to enter the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia on Saturday, May 23. It was also decided to make an effort to have scrub baseball diamonds for the use of the Leiter cup teams laid out on Soldiers Field...
...boat runs smoothly, but there is still a tendency to row straight from the arms and lose the shoulder swing, and to rush the stroke immediately after the finish. The second boat, stroked by Reece, contains a powerful crew, which may possibly represent the University in the Henley regatta at Philadelphia the last...
...until the erection of the latter in 1907. The club was a great success from the first and filled a long felt want. This interest showed itself in the development of good crews and scullers, whose excellence is shown by the fact that in one regatta alone the club won seven events. The University crew drew many of its members from the Weld crews, taking five men from one eight and four men and the coxswain from another. Aside from graded crew and interclass racing, the Weld crews have defeated many college crews, Pennsylvania and Columbia among others...
...class races will be held on Saturday, May 16, two weeks before the American Henley. There will be three crews from each class and the winning upperclass crew will receive their numerals whether the Freshmen win or not. The winning boat will probably go to the Henley Regatta, and a race with some outside crew will be arranged for the second. After the class races the crews will be graded and hold races later in the spring. The winning crew will receive the club insignia...
Wesley Earle Dunkle '08S., of Pittsburg, three, prepared for college at the Warren High School, Warren, Pa. Last year he rowed seven on the 1909 freshman crew and this year was bow on the Yale second crew that rowed in the American Henley Regatta. Age, 20 years, 3 months, height, 6 feet, weight, 173 pounds...