Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Derby may shape up as a classic contest of Beauty v. Beast, few touts with a memory are willing to concede that it is strictly a match race. There have been Big Two Derbies before, such as Candy Spots v. No Robbery in 1963, and Damascus v. Ruken in 1967. None of those favorites won. This year, at least half a dozen outsiders could make history repeat itself, including Dike, a 6-to-l shot by virtue of his victory in the $110,900 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, and Arts and Letters, who bested Top Knight during...
Penn began a little slower, downing Princeton by only a two-second margin, but came on strong to roll over a good Yale beat by three and a half lengths in its first race...
Harvard coach Harry Parker decided not to make any line-up changes as he did before the last race, and the Crimson goes into tomorrow's race with the same crew which won against Princeton. "Everything seems to be going very well." Parker said, "and I saw no reason to change at this time...
...Usual Race...
...Crimson should row its usual race, coming off the line at a high 45 strokes per minute for the first ten pulls, dropping to about a 41 for the next ten, and then setting to about a 37 until the final sprint. Parker decided to take the Peacock shell because of the "pretty good chance of some rough water," but since the crew has raced in the shell the last two times out, it should have no effect on their performance...