Crew

The first crew race held on the Connecticut since 1877 took place on October 30 when the "Greens" outrowed the "Whites" by five lengths in a special race before several hundred spectators lining the shores and the new Ledyard Bridge. The race was held over the Henley distance, with the starting line a mile and five-sixteenths upstream. The "Whites" were handicapped by lack of weight, as well as a leaky shell, but the "Greens" were clearly the superior crew and could have won by a wider margin had they cared to.

The race marked the climax of the fall season of the recently formed Indian Rowing Club, under the direction of Coach Jim Smith, of the Union Boat Club of Boston. Activities this year were confined to the Connecticut River, because of the difficulty encountered last year in travelling back and forth between Hanover and Lake Mascoma, twelve miles away. The rowing Club built a float on the Vermont side of the river with logs from the old Ledyard Bridge, and kept its shells in the Boston and Maine baggage shed in Lewiston. It is expected that spring rowing will once more be held on Lake Mascoma, for facilities there are much superior.

The commodore of the Indian Rowing Club is Chuck Aaron '36 of Cleveland, Ohio. He and Bob Stix '38 of Scarsdale, N. Y., have been largely responsible for the successful season which the club has enjoyed this fall. Men who rowed in the "Green" shell were D. C. Schilling '38, Kansas City, Mo., bow; G. R. Reynolds '37, Brookline, Mass., No. 2; W. B. Hardwicke '38, Gowanda, N. Y., No. 3; J. F. Pringle '39, Niagara Falls, N. Y., No. 4; E. J. Stephens '36, Longmeadow, Mass., No. 5; B. W. Patterson '36, Jackson Heights, N. Y., No. 6; B. C. Prescott '39, Pelham, N. Y„ No. 7; L. H. Van Dike Jr. '38, Trenton, N. J., stroke; and I. P. Ambrose '38, Pittsfield, Mass., coxswain. The "White" crew included J. C. Lee '39, Manchester, N. H., bow; R. A. Southworth '38, Little Boar's Head, N. H., No. 2; R. M. Brown '38, Montchanin, Del., No. 3; J. L. Lutz '38, Dorchester, Mass., No. 4; J. C. Otis '37, Gloucester, Mass., No. 5; G. R. Tanis '38, Haledon, N. J., No. 6; O. Butterworth '37, West Hartford, Conn., No. 7; M. R. Butler '37, Waukesha, Wis., stroke; and A. R. Little '39, Marlboro, Mass., coxswain.