Word: regatta
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Unexpected winner of the regatta was the Cornell boat, which came from behind to overtake the Washington eight, a crew rowing its first and only race of the season, and maintained its advantage to win by three-quarters of a length over M.I.T...
...Crimson eight, whose time of 7:25.6 was almost seven seconds behind the winning Ithacans, the super-regatta of the year, witnessed by a crowd estimated at between 150,000 and 200,000 people, was a repetition of previous mediocre showings against the nation's top collegiate crews. Except for an early-season victory over Princeton and M.I.T. and the sound defeat of Yale on the Charles last month, Tom Bolles' first post-war season has been one of the least fruitful in many years...
...crews which finished behind Harvard's, only Rutgers had previously raced against the Bolles boat. The Scarlet oarsmen participated in the ill-fated Severn River regatta at Annapolis, in which the Harvard boat was last...
Favored Wisconsin, winner of the Severn race, was a big disappointment in Saturday's regatta, crossing the finish line in fourth place...
...because of the rough water, was nearly a minute and a half behind the best competitive mark in the records for the distance--a 5:51 by Yale under better racing conditions on the Schuykill River in the 1924 Olympic trials. The Elis were not represented in the Washington regatta Saturday...