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...stroke does not go up or down on the basis of relative position, because a crew rows against the clock until the final half-mile. Bill Curwen, for instance, would never vary more than one stroke from his usual 31 unless his rivals were hull down over the horizon. Months of experimenting have proved that a Harvard crew works best at that rate...
...morning last week, the 1,470-ton British sloop Amethyst steamed slowly up the Yangtze toward Nanking. On her starboard hand, massed for the assault across the river, lay the Communist armies. The Amethyst, with a 17-ft. Union Jack painted on each side of her grey steel hull, plowed the yellow-silted waters with assurance, a frail symbol of waning Western power in China. The Amethyst was to stand by the Chinese capital to protect British citizens. She never made...
VARSITY SWIMMING--Minor H--Winslow R. Briggs '50, Shepard Brown '50, Morton D. Hull, 2d '50, Associate Manager Bruce E. Bidwell...
Semi-final races will be held this afternoon in the 150-yard backstroke, with Tom Wood and Joe Steinhart swimming for the Crimson; in the 220-yard freestyle, with Bob Berke, Jerry German, and Mort Hull probable starters; in the 200-yard breaststroke, with Chuck Hoolzer and Larry Ward definitely entered; and in the 400-yard freestyle relay...
Yale boasts a strong set of freestyle men, headed by Ray Reid, frequent winner in both the 100 and 50-yard races, and including Don Erwin, Emil Estoclet, and Larry Munson. Against these, Bob Borke, Mort Hull, Jerry Gorman, Bill Mac-Vickar, and Shep Brown will have to show better than their very best stuff...