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Harvard's varsity crew redeemed its poor showing at Henley Yesterday with a stirring half-length triumph over some of the best ws in the world in Switzerland's Lucerne Regatta...
...SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Highlights of the Henley Regatta from England and the 1965 International Grand Prix motor race from Daytona Beach...
...Crimson may be the World's Best Crew still, but no one is saying go today. In the very first round of Henley's Grand Challenge Regatta, the eight ran into Vesper's Olympic championship crew, five of whom had been in the boat that best Harvard by two lengths in the Olympic Trials last year. And Vesper repeated the triumph over the Henley distance, this time with the margin shaved to two-thirds of a length...
...Parker knows what's going on. He starred on Pennsylvania's varsity from 1955 to '57, then shifted to single sculls and in 1959 won the National championship and the Pan American Games gold medal, went all the way to the finals of Britain's Henley regatta before losing. A few months later, Harvard offered him a job coaching its frosh, moved him up to the varsity in 1963 when Head Coach Harvey Love died. "This sport tends to be conservative," says Parker. "I'm inclined to try things out to see what works best...
...This year's wind direction is an unknown factor and local fishermen are looking for a slack tide. So, unless the Crimson gets a strong north wind at their backs, there won't be a new record. In any case, Harvard should win and be on their way to Henley and Lucerne by this time next week...