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...three straight heats of the President's Cup speedboat regatta on the Potomac River, three-time cup winner Miss Pepsi, driven by Detroit's Chuck Thompson, finished first. But on the final dash, Miss Pepsi crossed the starting line two seconds ahead of the gun and was disqualified. Winner on points (after finishing third in the final heat): Tempo VII, driven by Danny Foster and owned by Band Leader Guy Lombardo...
...waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn. At a dinner for the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, he donned a pith helmet and led his cronies in spoon-hammering sea chanties. Said one Cowes pubkeeper: "There's pirates 'round Cowes at regatta time, and Uffa's the worst of the lot." Lusty Uffa Fox certainly has a touch of Kidd and Blackbeard about him-at least in the eyes of landlubbers, whom he has shocked all his life. Uffa got into boats the hard way - as a 14-year-old Cowes...
...labor problem. To the visiting Russian rowers, it was a singular embarrassment. They could hardly disapprove of such a proletarian maneuver, but there they stood on the shore with their sweeps in their hands, and there were their shells on the deck of the strikebound Soviet freighter Strelna. The regatta at Henley, where they had swept the river only the year before, was only a week away. How could they practice? They were up the Thames, as it were, with a useless set of paddles...
...length ahead of Jesus College, Cambridge. Next they raced the Vancouver Rowing Club (the University of British Columbia's varsity eight). The Canadians, too, had been delayed by the strike. Moreover, half their crew had come down with nasty skin infections. This was their first race of the regatta...
...round into condition. Their stroke lengthened with power. The rhythm that puts a long, swift run on the boat became second nature. Last week, as a hot (90°), breathless haze flattened the dead waters of New York's Onondaga Lake for the 53rd Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, Cornell was ready...