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Meanwhile, the lights lost of Cornell Wednesday in the first round of the Henley Regatta on the Thames River. It was the third meeting of the year between the two boats: Harvard won at the Eastern Sprints, but the Big Red knocked them off at the American Henley in Philadelphia. The loss Wednesday eliminated Harvard from the Henley after being in it for only 7 minutes and 24 seconds...
...while, there was talk of entering the lightweights in the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley, normally reserved for heavyweight oarsmen. This plan assumed most heavyweight competition would be training for the Mexico City Game and would therefore skip the Henley Regatta...
...Lightweights also entered the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia, June 8. Competition centered on the Penn Junior Varsity Heavyweights, which had been only two-tenths of a second back of their varsity in the three-boat race with Vesper. Cornell and Penn, the other two leightweight powerhouses in the East, also sent their varsities...
After Amsterdam the Harvard lightweights will fly directly to England where they will prepare for the Henley trial heats, which take place July 10. On July 6 they will enter races at Reading, upstream from Henley. The Reading events are raced over a course of only about a mile and Andersen called it "a nice little tune-up regatta" in preparation for Henley...
...Royal Henley Regatta is famouts in international rowing for the top-light crews it attracts here, and for its tradition-laden gala festivities. Doughty old gentlemen, biazered in their school colors, return by the thousands here to watch the shells race up Henley's narrow, twisting course on the Thames River...