Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard's traditional training quarters on the Thames near Now London, the oarsmen will work out twice a day in preparation for the regatta. The varsity rows four miles--the only four-mile race still existing--while the freshmen and jayvees row two miles. The combination race, the day before the others, is also two miles...
...With Kentucky Derby Winner Hill Gail out of action with an ankle ailment, 1952's Triple Crown is already split. But Blue Man's showing puts him near the head of the class. ¶ The Navy crews (varsity, j.v. and freshmen), the Eastern sprint (2,000-meter) regatta; at Princeton, N.J. ¶ The California crew, an upset, over powerhouse Washington (by four lengths); in Oakland, Calif. ¶ Jockey Johnny Longden, race No. 4,000, to put him numerically head & shoulders over the rest of the U.S. jockeys; at California's Hollywood Park. In the race...
...only is it the last home regatta for Crimson crews but it is also the final race before the four-mile grind against Yale on June 20, and Love, with a two-and-two record so far this spring, must take this one to keep above 500 for the year...
...House, captain of the varsity, presented Haines with a miniature shell in his honor. At the E.A.R.C. regatta at Princeton, Haines had also received an honorary plaque, as a gesture of admiration from the Crew Coaches Organization of America...
...will probably not compete, and the first problem of the sponsors of the meeting will be to provide the two representative crews, probably pick-up eights. This race has no bearing on the annual four-mile race held in June, but will be only a replica of the first regatta between the two colleges...