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...this regatta, even Vesper wasn't good enough to go all the way. Germany's Ratzeburg crew, second to Vesper by a few feet in the Olympic, got its revenge with a half-length victory in the finals. Ratzeburg's 6:16 for the mile and- five-sixteenths broke by two seconds the course record that Vesper had set in beating the Harvard crew on Thursday...
This wouldn't have been as embarrassing as it was for Harvard-- after all, the Vesper and Ratzeburg crews are older and more experienced than the Crimson--if Harvard officials hadn't acted all spring as if they believed their press clippings. The week before the race coach Harry Parker filled the Boston papers with comments that exuded confidence. "These boys could win pulling an old barge with broomsticks," was Parker's day-of-race bulletin...
...another story in the final, with Ratzeburg beating Vesper in a contest of power rowing. The Germans went off at an incredible 52 strokes per minute and never dropped under 40 before they sank, exhausted at the finish line. It was several minutes before they could row back to the shore...
...coxless fours. Darkness had already fallen over the Toda rowing course by the time the big race for eight-oared shells got under way, and flares burst overhead as crews from six nations stroked their way down the 2,000-meter course. The odds-on favorite: Germany's Ratzeburg eight, back to defend the Olympic title they won in 1960. Coxed by Robert Zimonyi, at 46 the oldest man on the U.S. Olympic team, the Vesper Boat Club crew was rated no better than third. They had lost a preliminary heat to Ratzeburg, had to survive a repechage...
Using the tulip-shaped oars popularized by Germany's 1960 Olympic-winning Ratzeburg crew, the high-stroking Californians soon jumped into a boat-length lead. From then on, they unconcernedly looked back at their pursuers for the length of the Olympic-size 2,000-meter course. At the finish, the coxswain took the stroke up to 40 for kicks, and California slid across in 6 min. 31 sec. Adding insult to injury, another Western crew, the University of Washington, was second, nearly two lengths back, and exhausted Cornell was a sorely beaten third...