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Childs Cup. Four exquisitely-timed Columbia crews beat Princeton last week on brown-bottomed Lake Carnegie in the Childs Cup regatta. Pennsylvania rowed too, came in last in every race but the 150-lb. class, in which no Penn crew was entered. Columbia, having won every race this season, is, with possible exception of Cornell, the East's best bet for intercollegiate honors in June, when potent oarsmen from Washington and California will row on the Hudson...
Reds. The Charles River was too rough last fortnight for red-jerseyed Harvard oarsmen to row red-jerseyed M. I. T. men. So last week the M. I. T. men joined a red-jerseyed Cornell crew in outrowing Harvard. Cornell, unhurried, finished first. Harvard, however, won the junior varsity race when Cornellian Bate, No. 6, snapped...
Navy it. Syracuse. Navy's swart little Coxswain Rivero barked cheerily to his crew at Annapolis last week and the crew answered by finishing five lengths ahead of panting Syracuse...
...defeat of the first University eight on Saturday by-both Penn and Navy demonstrates more clearly than before that the real hopes of Harvard crew this spring lie in the discovery of a stroke oar with form and stamina to send a crew over a four mile course. There is no doubt but that both the University crews lack only the pace-setters to raise them from the ranks of underdogs to the position of victors...
When the first crew failed to match the terrific sprint of its two rivals on the Severn last Saturday and breezed in nearly a length behind, there was a solid conviction in the minds of the spectators that a well directed finish by the Harvard oarsmen would have forced their opponents to crack, so close were they to the breaking point...