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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to improve one of these two evenly-matched boats at the expense of the other, Bolles evolved a complicated shift which brought Sophomores Bus Curwen, Gerry Prince and Junior Reggie Filz up to the seconds from the so-called third boat, while Bill Homans, Bull Reece, and John Erakine went down a peg to make room for them. Such shifts so not tell the main story, however, for last year's Varsity stroke, Jack Wilson, has relinquished his stern heat and moved to two in order to make room for Curwen, who is now setting the pace...
Colt Wagner rose to the first boat during the spring vacation and Wolson went to the seconds, as Bolles sought to find the formula for a faster first crew. Now Bus Curwen, pace-setter of the undefeated Freshmen last year, has moved up to the Jayvees, at least for the time being...
After April 30, therefore, Harvard's cooks, dishwashers, bus-boys, pantry girls, glass and silver girls, butchers, bakers, pot washers, store room men, steam table men, kitchen men, salad men, and short order men in the grilles will no longer be able to cash in on union benefits without taking the responsibility of membership...
...real race of the afternoon, however, centered about the second and third shells, which have yet to be separated by more than a half length in competition. Saturday the margin between stroke Jack Wilson's Jayvee outfit and Bus Curwen's third boat was estimated as about five feet by the manager who ragged the finish...
...Bus Curwen's third eight, composed mainly of members of last year's successful Freshman boat, fell back badly at the start, but then successively overhauled the fourth and second shells. About a hundred yards from the finish they seemed about to repeat their upset victory of a week ago, but a last-minute spurt by Wilson's Jayvees sent them over the finish, victors by a very scant margin...