Sport: Crews

On Lake Washington. University of California oarsmen, Olympic rowing champions of 1928 and 1932, owe much to their bitterest rivals at the University of Washington. California's Coach Carroll ("Ky") Ebright was Washington coxswain in 1916-17. California's cedar shells—like those of almost every other college crew in the U. S.—are made by bespectacled George Pocock in his little workshop on the Washington campus. Last fortnight the seasoned California oarsmen who won the Poughkeepsie regatta last year launched a new Pocock shell called the California Clipper, set out to prove the boast of Coach...

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