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Polished form and a quick start brought victory to Bert Haines' Freshman 150-pound crew yesterday in their first race of the season against the M.I.T. first-year lightweights and Browne and Nichols school...
When Tom Bolles sends his Varsity eight to the starting line against Princeton and M.I.T. at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon, the Charles River, usually quiet enough on Saturdays, will be churned up by a racing Crimson crew for the first and last time this season. Preliminaries to the main event will be in the form of 150-pound, Freshman, and Jayvee races against the same three opponents at 4, 4:30, and 5 o'clock respectively...
...last season's record alone, the Scarlet and Grey Engineers have a decided edge in today's regatta. Jim McMillan's varsity beat the Crimson three times in '46 and was called "the second best crew in the country" by no less a person than Tom Bolles at the close of the season. The Engineers' time trials have reportedly been extremely successful thus far. Princeton is the only one of the three to have raced already this year, having opened its campaign a week ago by beating Penn across the line by a trifle more than a length. The Tigers...
...Yale race-Paul Knaplund at seven, and Mike Scully, at bow. Two more, Frank Strong and Jud Gale have never before rowed in competition at Harvard. Captain Bob Stone and Stu Clark, at four and two, have returned to the Bolles fold with only service on the 1942 Freshman crew behind them. Stroke Frank Cunningham's only Charles River tour of duty was with the 150's before the war. Dick Emmet rowed with the war-time informals...
...Browne and Nichols crew, off to a bad start, gave Tech a serious scare by coming within a half-length at the finish...