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Last Monday, Pennsylvania's Joe Burk spoke to the weekly luncheon of crew coaches, and as much as told them his crew had the speed to beat Harvard this year. He said his oarsmen were "ten seconds faster than Vesper...
...Burk made the assertion after comparing Penn's time against Yale and Columbia last Saturday with a time trial which Vesper made down the same course shortly thereafter...
Parker, however, tends to discount Burk's interpretation. He maintains it is impossible to compare times in a race with no opposition...
...Burk, the grand old man of Eastern rowing, knows his business, and his prediction may be more than an effort to psych Harvard out. It could be close...
...even hide there any more, pal - at least not at the University of Pennsylvania. John McGinn, an old Penn coxswain and now a scientist in General Electric's laboratories at Valley Forge, Pa., has invented an electronic gizmo that enables Penn Coach Joseph Burk to tell at a glance in practice which of his oarsmen are pulling their weight - and which aren't. Attached to the oarlocks, miniature dynamometers measure the pull on each oar, flash the results on a board of 32 lights - four for each crewman. If all four lights flash on, the oarsman is exerting...