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Harvard's varsity crew redeemed its poor showing at Henley Yesterday with a stirring half-length triumph over some of the best ws in the world in Switzerland's Lucerne Regatta...
...SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Highlights of the Henley Regatta from England and the 1965 International Grand Prix motor race from Daytona Beach...
...Crimson may be the World's Best Crew still, but no one is saying go today. In the very first round of Henley's Grand Challenge Regatta, the eight ran into Vesper's Olympic championship crew, five of whom had been in the boat that best Harvard by two lengths in the Olympic Trials last year. And Vesper repeated the triumph over the Henley distance, this time with the margin shaved to two-thirds of a length...
...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...
After the race Parker said he still felt his crew was better and challenged Vesper to show up for the Lucerne Regatta in Switzerland this weekend. Vesper isn't expected to race, but no one is certain...