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...Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and onetime Princeton physics professor, the Compton Cup for the first four years was won regularly by Princeton. Last week this embarrassing situation ended when Harvard's varsity boat, smoothly stroked by Jim Chace, slipped across the finish line a length ahead of Princeton and five ahead...
...voice as the Varsity eights were on the line. The strong head wind and with it the sea had dropped as he cried "Ready, Row!" The boats were off like a flash. Harvard started easily, soon dropped to a lower stroke than the Tigers, but stayed with them. "Spike" Chace settled down to a smooth, easy 32; Princeton was two strokes higher behind Fred Warner...
This eight which opens the Princeton race sees Captain Eddie Bennett looking down the boat and seeing Spike Chace at stroke, Paul Austin at 7, Doug Erikson at 6, John Gardner at 5, John Clark at 4, Bob Wolcott at 3, Rog Cutler at 2, and bowman Bill Haskins. Of these, the only two who haven't had Varsity experience are Haskins and Gardner, and they both were on the Jayvees in the races against the Elis on the Thames...
...Chace has had long experience here stroking; he was captain of his Freshman eight; and last season he stroked the Varsity in their impressive victory over Yale. Those were the Whiteside days, however, and rowing on the Harvard waterfront has changed since then...
...look when they get out on the water. One boat at present, a boat that is as near as one can get to the "number one" eight, is composed of the Varsity lettermen who have come back, with fillings-in where necessary from the last year's Jayvees. Jim Chace is stroking this outfit, and behind him are Johnny Austin, John Clark, John Gardiner, Doug Erickson, Bob Wolcott, Roger Cutler and Bill Haskins...