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...regatta will wind three miles up the Charles from the site of the M.I.T. and Boston University Boathouses to the Charles River Park Reservation area, passing through the heart of Harvard...
...another rematch between a Harvard crew and a Vesper Boat Club crew highlights the first annual Head of the Charles Regatta today...
Other fours have been entered by M.I.T. and the Penn Athletic Club. There are 70 boats with more than 250 oarsmen in the 13 divisions. The regatta is sponsored by the Cambridge Boat Club...
...weeks ago, Adam got his chance for revenge. At England's 126-year-old Henley Royal Regatta, the Ascot of crew racing, Vesper knocked off Harvard, the best college crew in the U.S. In the finals, to determine the best crew in the world, it was Ratzeburg against Vesper. Ratzeburg led all the way, finished half a length ahead, set a new Henley record of 6 min. 16 sec. for the one-mile and 550-yd. course...
That evened the score with Vesper, but it didn't settle anything. Taking up an offer from the Gillette Safety Razor Co.'s German branch, Vesper agreed to enter the Ratzeburg Regatta and race once again against the powerful West German crew. Last week, on a windless lake close to the little (pop. 12,123) town of Ratzeburg near the Danish frontier, Karl Adam's husky boys got off with a fast-chopping 50 strokes a minute, built up a one-half-length lead before slowing the pace to 41 strokes. At times, the Vespers pumped away...