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Yesterday's race, postponed from Friday when Lowell broke an oar in a reversion to tactics first popularized by Quintus Fabius Maximus '00, was clocked at the respectable time of 4:15, sans tailwind...
...downstream for the start of the last heat of the afternoon, Winthrop's stroke "Dunc" McCollester broke his oar in a fit of youthful exhuberance, delaying the race till the late supper hour. It proved to be an ill omen for hapless Dudley's octet, which chopped its way past the white flag roughly a minute after Winthrop...
Hall, who rows in the number 2 slot, is in his third year with the varsity 150's. Boardman wields a wicked number 6 oar...
Harvard is in pretty good shape to meet this threat, although big Jud Gale will watch this one from the river bank also. The powerful number five oar put in an appearance on the river Tuesday for the first time in a week, but Bolles-figures the veteran oar needs more conditioning to work off his Stillman-induced paunch...
...coxswain Mantel, the stern of the favored Crimson shell will be weighted down with veterans. Captain Paul Knaplund, Frank Strong, and Dick Emmet are all returnees from the championship 1947 boat, and Bolles is counting heavily on their performance this afternoon. Bowman Mike Scully is also a time-tested oar, but it will be the first performance in the major leagues for Don Felt and Ted Reynolds, two and three oars, respectively...