THE SPORT OF ROWING shell along with a spare shell was put aboard the baggage car. “The other car on the train Mendenhall, Harvard-Yale Practicing on the deck of the SS Homeric “The Navy officers were keenly disap- pointed. They had trained faithfully for the last three months under Richard Glendon, Sr., but they were among the first to con- gratulate the winners and wished them good luck, as they had had at Antwerp in 1920.”1812 Spock: “The following Monday and Tuesday, the week of the Harvard race, we had our first two four-mile time trials row- ing upstream at 26 or 28, and on one of them we beat the then-existing upstream race rec- ord. The race on Friday the 20th was down- stream, and we won by several lengths.”1813 Time Magazine: “The moment the Yale shell touched shore, the crew sprang out to the smart ‘one, two, three’ of the coxswain, dashed away for a shower and to dress, and then to the special train that was waiting to take them to Manhattan.”1814 Spock: “A special train was at the sid- ing at Gales Ferry Friday night, and our 1812 Yale Crew Winner; To Row in Olympics, The New York Times, June 15, 1924 1813 Spock, p. 3 1814 Harvard Drubbed, Time Magazine, June 30, 1924 was a sleeper which took us to Grand Central Station in Man- hattan, arriving at 2 o’clock in the morning. At that time, the shell was carried through the Grand Central waiting room, put on a truck, taken to the Cu- nard liner Homeric, swung on board and lashed down on the bow deck, covered only by a canvas.”1815 The New Yorker: “To most of the Yale people the regatta in which the impossible was ac- complished, the defeat of Harvard at four miles, after the supreme ‘lift’ at Philadelph- ia, will rank in history with other nightmares – that is, to those who were close to the situ- ation. There was a breathing spell on board ship, a chance to steady ragged nerves, and then Paris.”1816 Spock: “The party making the trip con- sisted of one Rowing Committee member who held the letter of credit, Ed Leader, Dick Pocock, Sid Coe, the nine of the crew, a substitute coxswain and four substitute oarsmen, the manager and an assistant man- ager. Our accommodations were scattered throughout the first class section of the Ho- meric. “Four rowing machines were screwed into the boat deck, where one of the life boats was swung over the side, and we had two hard workouts a day on the rowing ma- chines in addition to doing calisthenics. “Gloria Swanson was on board but was not in our party. Our captain met his future wife on board, and between these two ex- 1815 Spock, p. 4 1816 Reed, op.cit., p. 18 482
