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...their side in the Olympic games. They had a bumper crop of their own athletes. At Henley-on-Thames last week, the University of California's smooth eight-oared crew got off to a slow start, but never had to raise the beat too high. The coxswain simply called for a "big ten" (increasing the effort, but not the beat, for ten strokes) and Cal smoothly spurted into the lead. California won easily over Great Britain's Leander Boat Club and Norway's Fana Row Club...
Just after 7 p.m., his moody beanpoles jockeyed their shell out into the Hudson. The coxswain dropped his arm, signaling to the starter that the Huskies were ready. At the gun, they dug furiously to get headway, then settled down to a smooth 30 strokes a minute...
Thursday afternoon the Crimson posed on the Newell Boat House float with coxswain Sam Mantel clutching the gold-encrusted Compton Cup which it defends today. Whether posing with this trophy before the race is symptomatic of sublime confidence or resignation to defeat is a matter for speculation...
...Curwen and coxswain Mantel, the stern of the favored Crimson shell will be weighted down with veterans. Captain Paul Knaplund, Frank Strong, and Dick Emmet are all returnees from the championship 1947 boat, and Bolles is counting heavily on their performance this afternoon. Bowman Mike Scully is also a time-tested oar, but it will be the first performance in the major leagues for Don Felt and Ted Reynolds, two and three oars, respectively...
Perhaps all this pessimism has some connection with the fact that on the day this reporter last spoke to the coach, they had just returned from the speetacle of seeing an adroit Freshman coxswain pilot a load of 150's into a passing sailboat. Somehow, the coaches seemed a bit tired of it all. The Varsity Schedule April 24 Princeton, MIT, and Rutgers at Princeton May 1 Cornell here May 8 Pennsylvania and Navy at Philadelphia May 15 Eastern Intercollegiate Sprint Regatta here June 25 Yale at New London