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...with juvenile ferocity: "Once you're with us, you better not tell anybody, or it won't be safe for you to go out at night." They asked a boy named Larry Collins to go along. The five drove to another liquor store, this time in nearby Compton. The two boys went in, leaving the girls to stand guard, and soon came backing out with...
Bolles will row his customary starting eight in the varsity shell but in the J.V. boat, Eric Osborne will replace Caner at four oar. Osborne started the season in that spot but wrenched his back in practice before the Compton Cup race April...
Alternating ten foot leads with M.I.T. for almost three quarters of a mile, the varsity crew crossed the finish line on Princeton's Lake Carnegie one foot ahead of the Engineers Saturday to win its ninth consecutive Compton Cup regatta. It was the second time in three years that the Crimson has snatched the Cup by a one foot margin...
During the beginning of the sprint, M.I.T. appeared to be able to hold its infinitesimal advantage and wrest the Compton Cup from the Crimson. Harvard caught up and the race reached that sort of situation in which the crew that is stroking as it gets to the finish line is the winner. That crew was Harvard. The winning time was 9:08. M.I.T. recorded 9:08.2, Princeton 9:32.6, and Rutgers, distinctly out of the race...
Princeton and Rutgers are distinctly less formidable threats in the race though observers at Princeton claim their shell has enough good raw material to turn in some finished performances this season. A traditional rival such as Harvard, holder of the Compton Cup uninterruptedly since 1937, could bring this potential to the surface...