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...Eastern sprint regatta, McMillin got another chance to change M.I.T.'s status. With 34 eight-oared shells from 13 colleges competing, spectators saw the biggest flotilla ever assembled for a crew regatta in the U.S. But for McMillin there was only one other shell on the Severn River: undefeated Harvard, which had lost only nine varsity races since 1937, had already beaten M.I.T. twice this year...
...races the M.I.T. crew has been tailing the Crimson and invariably the pursued made it over the finish line just a step ahead. Saturday the Tech boat out-sprinted Harvard by one tenth of a second and four feet to win the 2000 meter Eastern rowing championship on the Severn at Annapolis...
...Federal Express at Baltimore early this morning and disgorged 18 oarsmen (two of them spares), two coxswains, crew coach Tom Bolles, and a handful of managers. From Baltimore the varsity and J.V. entrained for Annapolis, where they will row Penn and Navy for the Adams Cup tomorrow on the Severn...
...varsity crews entered in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges regatta next Saturday at Annapolis will row together in one final race, EARC athletic directors decided this week. Meanwhile, the coaches entering boats have uniformly criticized the move because of the varying rowing conditions on the Severn River...
Crimson Coach Tom Bolles said yesterday that the "EARC, in abandoning its policy of holding preliminary heats in the morning, has raised several alarming problems for the coaches." He explained that the tides on the wide Severn course were practically unpredictable and that the current in lane one might vary considerably from that in lane...