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...Beresford is without question the best man. The week previous he defeated Hoover in the Diamond Sculls of the Henley' regatta. Previous to this the English rowing authorities had ruled that the Diamond Sculls, and not the Philadelphia Cup, is emblematic of the World's Amateur Rowing Championship...
...June 1--With the shells and all the crews and coaches except Coach Spuhn and the Second University eight, installed here again, the drive before the Yale race has begun. The Seconds are not expected to arrive before Wednesday, having been given a rest since their race at the Henley Regatta on Saturday...
...Third University boat, picked by many as the most likely of the Crimson entrants to win, was defeated by Yale and Pennsylvania in a thrilling race. In winning this event, the Blue shell negotiated the Henley distance in six minutes 46 and four-fifths seconds, which clipped one-fifth of a second off the former record for this class...
Although none of the three University crews entered in the American Henley in Philadelphia Saturday came through a winner, the performance of the Second and 150-pound eights was eminently satisfactory from a Crimson point of view. Coach Stevens' Second boat lost to powerful eights from Syracuse and the University of Pennsylvania by the narrow margin of a length, but finished ahead of Navy and Princeton. The Crimson 150- pound oarsmen lost to the undefeated Red and Blue crew, but led Yale, Princeton, and Columbia across the line...
...which 47 crews participated. In the final race of the afternoon, the undefeated Navy crew added Pennsylvania to its string of victims, defeating the Quaker eight by three-quarters of a length in the fast time of six minutes 34 and two-fifths seconds. The record for the Henley course on the Schuylkill of six minutes and 25 seconds was made by the Yale crew last year in the finals of the Olympic trials...