s.
P. S. CREW
Row 1
-
M. A. Kirkland.
Row
2
R. B. RusseU, W. M. Benso n, T .
L.
Shortall , J . E. Walker.
Row
3
Mr. Higgins, W. E. Brown , R. E. Thurston, C. R. Bradshaw, D. T. Hood, S. R. Lievens.
Forgetting their rivalry for the first time in
school history , the first and second Shattuck and
Halcyon crews put their muscle together
th~
spring to work for a winning combination at
Worcester. All four crews were extremely strong as
coach Higgin drove them through day after day of
hard workouts.
As Worce ter drew nearer, S. P. S. swept all of
their races, ave those against the Harvard and
Dartmouth Froshes. However, due to the illness of
captain and stroke Tom Shortall , the first boat had
a new man rowing at the number eight spot the
Monday before Worce ter. This of course caused
changes throughout the four crews. With on ly a
week until Worcester, there was little time to pull
together, but even less time to be downcast abou t
it. By the Friday before Worcester, after four days
of practice, the first and second boats were pulling
together , and morale was high .
On May
25 ,
Worcester was partly cloudy and
boasted a heavy wind. The second boat 10 t by a
fraction of a second to the Kent Junior Varsity
which had the necessary two foot margin at the
finish. The varsity crew, unbroken by a somewhat
faulty sta rt , rowed even with Kent for the first
quarter mile , as Tabor and Mt. Hermon grabbed
the lead. Then we both settled our stroke, Ken t to
abou t
36,
S. P. S. to about a
35,
and started to
move out on the rest of the crews at the halfway
mark. S. P. S. took the stroke up , laid on the
power, and found itself leading by about a deck
length . Then Kent put the power on and came
even at the
3/4
mi le, only to jump to a
43.
It
was
this stroke that gave them their 6 foot victory and
left S. P. S. in the second place spot.
All the boys who rowed this year must be
congratulated for the work they did an d for their
undying spirit a t the most depressing of times. The
value of the var ity system has been shown, and it
can be as ured that all oarsmen appreciate this
necessary break in S. P. S. tradition .
J .
E. W.
