Sport: Crew

In the play, Paris Bound, a suave gentleman boasts that he once stroked the Vassar crew. He was wrong in more ways than one. Vassar, famed female college though it is, has no crew. In fact, the only U. S. female college where crew is a major sport is Wellesley, at Wellesley, Mass. Last week Wellesley rowing came into the public eye and the public eye was pleased, for pretty little Maimie Sze, daughter of the Chinese Minister to the U. S., was appointed captain of the freshman crew. No muscled oarswoman she, but the coxswain who steers the boat and...

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