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    1. No, Toby had seduced the young wife of a senior French ' diplomat and had gaily and innocently paraded her at such blue-blooded society events as Royal Ascot, Henley Regatta and a number of distinguished West End nightclubs


    2. A fleet of seagulls sat in a loose formation a few hundred yards offshore as if waiting for a cannon to signal the start of a regatta


    3. “I hear on the grape vine that there has been a double murder out in woodland in Buckinghamshire – and I’m not talking about the way your favourite teams were annihilated at the Marlow Regatta either,” I said


    4. The regatta is spread on the bay, the race is begun, (how the white


    5. He was going to rebuild the crew from scratch for the Poughkeepsie Regatta in June, he growled


    6. The Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s regatta at Poughkeepsie was a storied institution, with roots deep in the history of American rowing


    7. With a few interruptions—major wars that have taken the young men at each school off to other, more hazardous occupations—the Harvard-Yale Regatta has been raced every subsequent year since 1859


    8. For much of that time, the regatta was one of the country’s premier sporting events


    9. But Harvard and Yale did not row in any kind of intercollegiate championship regatta beyond their own annual match, and there was no semblance of a national championship event until 1895


    10. Almost immediately following that first meeting—won by Cornell on June 21, 1895—other schools began to be invited to Poughkeepsie, and the regatta came to be seen as the most prestigious crew race in the country, eclipsing even the annual Harvard-Yale boat race and coming to represent the equivalent of a national championship

    11. By the second decade of the new century, tens of thousands of fans—as many as 125,000 in 1929—came to Poughkeepsie to watch the annual regatta in person; millions more listened to the radio coverage; and the regatta came to rival the Kentucky Derby, the Rose Bowl, and the World Series as a major national sporting event


    12. For most of the first quarter of the century, the eastern colleges thoroughly dominated the regatta


    13. Less than a decade later, most of the shells in the Poughkeepsie Regatta would be Pocock’s


    14. Joe and the other freshman boys from Washington who showed up for the 1934 Poughkeepsie Regatta could not have been better cast to play their parts in the ongoing regional conflict


    15. The 1934 regatta was once again shaping up to be a clash of eastern privilege and prestige on the one hand and western sincerity and brawn on the other


    16. As Joe and his crewmates paddled the City of Seattle from their boathouse out onto the river, they got their first good look at the spectacle of a Poughkeepsie Regatta


    17. On the morning following the Poughkeepsie Regatta in June, Varnell had come right out and written what many in Seattle were thinking after listening to the race on the radio: “Count this Washington freshman outfit as a potential Olympic lineup in 1936


    18. But as the Pacific Coast Regatta in California approached, in early April, the weather again deteriorated and the sophomore boys could not, for the life of them, seem to regain and hold on to their magic


    19. The JV clamored to be named the varsity boat for the regatta


    20. Whoever won the first time trial after they arrived in Oakland would row as the varsity crew in the Pacific Coast Regatta

    21. Improbably, as he had moved toward the Pacific Coast Regatta, Ebright had demoted the varsity boys who had won the national title in Poughkeepsie the year before, in favor of a mixed boat of sophomores and juniors


    22. When Royal Brougham arrived in Oakland to cover the regatta, Ebright pleaded with him, “Will you please tell me why the crew that last June was the best in the U


    23. Each tried to outdo the other in gloomy prognostications for the upcoming regatta


    24. , the regatta got started with the two-mile freshman race


    25. On April 14, the day after the Pacific Coast Regatta on the Oakland Estuary, the dust storms of the past several years were suddenly eclipsed by a single catastrophe that is still remembered in the Plains states as Black Sunday


    26. He’d keep an open mind, Ulbrickson said, and see how both boats performed on the Hudson before the regatta


    27. Following the triple victories in California, he had taken to telling Seattle that he would sweep the regatta in Poughkeepsie this year, winning all three events


    28. All was quiet at the Washington shell house on the morning of the regatta


    29. That was one of the fastest fields in the history of the regatta


    30. Before a regatta, the cox receives a race plan from the coach, and he or she is responsible for carrying it out faithfully

    31. The finish line for the Pacific Coast Regatta in April was a little less than a mile up the lake from there


    32. But before the Olympic trials at Princeton, Al Ulbrickson faced another daunting series of challenges: First the Pacific Coast Regatta with California on Lake Washington


    33. In Berkeley, Ky Ebright was, if anything, probably even more confident than Al Ulbrickson, both about the upcoming regatta in Seattle and about his Olympic prospects


    34. Two years running now, his varsity had beaten Ebright’s in the Pacific Coast Regatta only to turn around and lose in Poughkeepsie


    35. In the final days before the Poughkeepsie Regatta, another big sports story dominated the headlines on sports pages and sometimes on front pages around the country—the story of a heavyweight boxing match


    36. By the morning of the regatta, the consensus in the eastern press, at least, was that California and Cornell were the boats to beat in the varsity race, with Washington expected to come in perhaps just a beat or two behind the leaders


    37. Washington, for the second time in two years, now stood again on the brink of sweeping the regatta


    38. The tone may have been tongue-in-cheek, but the substance of Williams’s piece was no joke for thousands of eastern crew fans—their schools seemed to be falling out of contention in a regatta they had designed to test and demonstrate their own rowing prowess


    39. And it wasn’t just eastern sports scribes and fans who found themselves facing a new reality after the 1936 regatta


    40. Penn had swapped out three of its eight Poughkeepsie oarsmen, replacing them with recent graduates not eligible to race in the intercollegiate regatta but perfectly legal in Olympic trials

    41. There he sat down on a bench and looked down the length of the Langer See, toward the regatta course at Grünau where his Olympic hopes would be realized or crushed in a little more than two weeks


    42. After breakfast a gray German army bus transported them three miles down the Langer See to the regatta course at Grünau, where they discovered that they were to share a fine new brick and stucco shell house with the German national rowing team


    43. Earlier in the month, the Australians had arrived in England to row in the most prestigious and tradition-bound of all crew races, the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta


    44. At Henley they had been politely but firmly informed that the rules of the regatta, in place since 1879, prohibited the participation of anyone “who is or has been by trade or employment for wages a mechanic, artisan, or labourer


    45. ” They could not, regrettably, row in the regatta


    46. By the rules devised for the 1936 Olympic rowing regatta, each of the fourteen eight-oared crews was to have two chances to make it into the medal race on August 14


    47. Then, late that afternoon, he rousted him out and put him on the bus, with the rest of the boys, headed for the regatta course


    48. By the time the boys arrived in Grünau, festive crowds clutching binoculars and cameras had begun to line up at the ticket windows in front of the regatta course


    49. But tens of thousands of spectators, most of them German, began to flood into the regatta grounds, huddled under black umbrellas or wearing rain slickers and hats


    50. By the time the first race approached, somewhat more than seventy-five thousand fans had packed the regatta grounds, the largest crowd ever to witness an Olympic rowing event












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