Word: decking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Captain Seth Crocker's boat won the race the hard way. All three shells left the mark evenly, but by the half-mile marker the Tigers were out in front by a deck-length, and they stretched their margin to a half-length by the Harvard Bridge. At this point Caleb Brokaw, the Crimson coxswain, called for twenty strokes, and Harvard moved up even with the Tigers at the mile mark...
Stroked by Hal Falcs, the Crimson Jayvees jumped to a lead of a deck-length in the first three strokes, and extended it to over half a length at the end of their start. From then on they rowed almost as they pleased to post a two-length victory over the second-place Tigers. The Crimson Freshmen won their second race of the season by seizing an early lead and extending it to a length and a half at the finish...
...Elephants have swept the river so far this year and should win the engagement easily, according to pre-race dope. In a mile test yesterday the first Eliot boat slugged over the mile course to finish a deck-length ahead of the second Eliots. Two lengths back was a Union Boat Club eight stroked by Spike Chace, whose name still makes every good Yale crew devotee shudder...
With two of the three cup races already in Harvard's hands, the Varsity lined up at 6:30 o'clock under slightly more favorable conditions than the earlier races. Pulling away to a deck-length lead on the racing start, Bolles' oarsmen dropped down to 34, and Held their scant advantage for the first quarter...
Problem. In the Delaware River, a cargo of gravel shifted suddenly in a steel barge. The barge turned over on a wooden scow beside it; the two clamped deck to deck like the shells of a clam (see cut). Last week rivermen still wondered how to get them apart...