Netters:
While this is noit a track and field story, I heard it at a meet
today and it is toog good not to share
As your probably know, track and field is only the second oldest
intercollegiate sport in the U.S. The pioneer role belongs to rowing and it,
in fact, at a rowing meet in 1876 that what we know as the iC4A was born
There are, to my knowldge, five NJ high schools that engage in
rowing: Nutley, Belleville and Kearny, which lie along the Passaic river in
North Jersey, and Atlantic City and Holy Spirit, whichare surrounded by
water in South Jersey. This story concerns Nutley.
It seems that on two recent occasions, the Nutley rowing team has
had a practice session interrupted by having one of the oars strike a dead
body, floating in the Passaic, a river which takes a torturous, U-shaped
course in North Jersey, winding up in Newark Bay. One of the bodies was a
long-drownded one, the other of more recent vintage with a bullet hole
squarely through the forehead. (The site, after all, is not that far from
Giants Stadium where many think the late Jimmy Hoffa is buried.
Runners have many dangers srrounding them when they go on the road,
but nothing like this
Ed Grant
