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More than 10,000 spectators lined the shore of Onondaga Lake, at Syracuse, N.Y., for the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta. For the first time in years, Syracuse University's home-town crew was picked to win. As Referee Clifford ("Tip") Goes sent the shells streaking away from their stake boats, no one paid much attention to the University of Wisconsin's crew, which had not even been good enough to qualify for the finals of the Eastern sprint championships last month, had, in fact, wound up dead last in the consolation race...
...Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew lost its lead to Syracuse some 200 strokes from the finish line, then came on with a late burst to win by a scant 4 ft. in the 2,000-meter-sprint regatta of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges on Lake Carnegie at Princeton, N.J. A length behind the leaders, Yale finished third-its first rowing defeat since...
...final decision on sending the Harvard heavy and lightweight crews to the Royal Henley Regatta in England this summer is expected this weekend with the chances of a favorable determination extremely likely...
...seeded Kirkland House is favored to win the House crew championship in a five-way regatta on the Charles at 3 p.m. this afternoon...
Robbins and Saltonstall both took thirds in the eighth race, and M.I.T. stayed even with a win in the A division and a fifth in division B. As the teams lined up for the final race of the regatta, M.I.T., B.U., and the varsity all had a chance for the title...