Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later, the largest flotilla of shells ever to compete in one regatta-32 in all-lined up on Lake Onondaga, N.Y. for the 2,000-meter Eastern sprint championships for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen. With the traditional coach's gloom, Tom Bolles said: "In a short race, some egg beater might win." But when the six varsity finalists (Pennsylvania, Navy, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Harvard) got off the mark, it was clear that no egg beater was going to steal the race...
...Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open water over runnerup Penn. The time: 6:48.8. It was the varsity's fourth straight victory of the season, and the third year in a row for Tom Bolles & Co. in the Eastern sprint regatta. The others also got something to think about for 1950. Harvard's junior varsity and freshmen crews won their races...
...echelon Crimson eight oared shells churned out four wins and dropped one in the American Rowing Association Regatta on the Charles Saturday...
Actually Harvard hasn't won a sailing regatta all spring. But its almost daily practice routine in the Charles River Basin has paid the curious dividend of 12 second places in the 14 regattas raced so far. The last chance to win comes Sunday in the Boston Dinghy Club Championships...
...races in which the Crimson was not the runner-up, as luck would have it, was the big one--the New England Championships May 7 and 8 which also served as eliminations for the National Championships. In this regatta the Harvard team of Putnam and Scullay dropped to third place, two points behind Brown which nosed out Harvard for the honor of following Yale. Only two boats from New England can race in the nationals...