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...varsity is the same as last week except that Frank Peale has moved into the number three seat in place of Peter Simonds. The jayvee boating has John Atherton at the three oar and Reuben Richards back again at stroke. With these boatings, the first eight defeated the second by a length and a half in one of the best time trials of the season this week Good conditions today should mean a well-rowed race...
Getting off to a commanding lead, the editors' eight ran into its first bad break when its number three man doubled up a scant five strokes from the start with acute gastroenteritis and was forced to take the emergency measure of swallowing his oar. Undaunted, the scribes retained their commanding lead over the fast stroking 'Poon, but adversity struck the editors once again when a species of highleaping truot sprang from the river and into the lap of the Crimson cox, temporarily blinding...
Love's Jayvees had no such luck, however. With the Crimson leading by over a length only forty strokes from the end of the race, the oarlock on number two's rigger broke, and the oar came out. Two-man Swede Sundqvist missed one stroke, then threw the loose oar out of the boat, and followed it by diving out himself, the crew finishing with only seven rowers. Princeton sprinted when the Tiger coxswain saw the accident, closed the gap, and passed the Crimson, winning by half a length...
Besides grooming the varsity eight for international competition, the H.A.A. also bought two four-oar shells with a view to training entries for this competition. John Hart, a husky senior, intends to make a bid for the single sculls event...
Just from where crew coach Harvey Love will draw his material for the four-oar boats is uncertain. If the varsity doesn't function according to high hopes held for it, he could take his oarsmen from there. More than likely, he will get his fours from the J.V. or third boat which have consistently been packed with first-rate oarsmen the past several seasons...