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...story that read-CHAMPIONSHIPS MINUS THE CHAMP. The cover showed a montage of coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside. Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson at Henley, and according to one Harvard athletic official, "Sports Illustrated has never forgiven us since...
...cycle repeated itself again last month when Penn whipped Harvard on the Charles in the Adams Cup regatta, only to lose at Worcester the following weekend. And since the Crimson has decided neither to race at the I.R.A. nor follow Penn to Henley in July, the issue will still be open...
Evan's approach, which is shared by the vast majority of Harvard oarsmen, goes a long way in explaining why the Crimson decided not to go to Henley this summer for a match race with Penn, and why it refused to race Western Sprint champion UCLA thisonth, even though the Bruins were willing to come to Cambridge for the race after passing up the I.R.A...
Hans Eckstein, the coach of the Einheit Dresden eight which whipped Penn in the Henley finals last summer, had a similar analysis...
...that reason, primarily, that several Harvard oarsmen believe that what is true at the Sprints would be true at the I.R.A., or at Henley, or anywhere Harvard met Penn after their first race. When both crews row their best, Harvard seems to win. That is what the Crimson proves to itself at Worcester. And that is why Harvard is rowing at New London, rather than at Syracuse, this weekend...