It wasn’t until the last 500 meters or so that Hume snapped out of it and began to respond to the call of coxswain Bobby Moch, ’36, to pick up the pace. Shortly into the 2,000-meter race, he nearly passed out, and became unaware of his surroundings. Don Hume, ’37, their stroke oar, the man who set the pace, was ill with what was probably walking pneumonia. To make matters worse, the boys from Seattle were so preoccupied with keeping their shell straight in the face of the wind that they missed the drop of the starter’s flag and got off the line a stroke and a half late. That lane, of course, was assigned to the Germans. Not surprisingly, they were assigned to lane six, the outside lane-a lane so exposed to the wind that it was like adding a two-length handicap behind the boat in lane one, the best lane.
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