Tug of war to compete sporadically starting in the 1960s and would become regular participants as sorority teams in the mid-1980s. The Hope College Pull is an annual tug-of-war contest held across the Black River in Holland, Michigan on the fourth Saturday after Labor Day. Competitors are 40 members of the freshman and sophomore classes. Two teams of eight, whose total mass must not exceed a maximum weight as determined for the class, align themselves at the end of a rope approximately in circumference. The rope is marked with a "centre line" and two markings to either side of the centre line. The
Baltimore (tug) the repair period to replace "Baltimore's" boiler. In her capacity as an official welcoming vessel for the City of Baltimore, "Baltimore" met the German unarmed merchant submarine "Deutschland" on her first voyage to America, prior to the United States' entry into World War I. "Baltimore" and the city quarantine tug "Thomas F. Timmins" patrolled the vicinity of "Deutschland's" berth to ensure American neutrality. In 1956 the Baltimore Harbor Board was dissolved and its assets, including "Baltimore", transferred to the Maryland Port Authority. In 1963 the state sold "Baltimore" to Alexander Luckton, Jr., owner of Baltimore's Poe Bookstore. Luckton proposed to