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...Bolles of a valuable yardstick with which to judge the-relative merits of this year's Ithacan crew. Notoriously late starters, and in addition riddled by sickness this year, the Cornell crew has so far this spring rowed two losing races, one to Navy, which last week chased Captain Sherm Gray's boat across the finish line, and one to Syracuse, victor over Tech last Saturday by the narrowest of margins...
...crews which stand between Captain Sherm Gray and another undefeated season are Navy and Penn this Saturday, Cornell and Syracuse a week later, and finally Yale at New London. Since Harvard has beaten Princeton, and the Tigers have either beaten all the rest of the Crimson's opponents, or won from crews which have defeated Harvard's future rivals, it would appear that there isn't much the side of the West Coast to press the Crimson. Hut many are sadder who thought that the better crew on paper was naturally better on water...
According to reports circulating from the Engineers' headquarters, this year's veteran-studded crew is 15 seconds faster than last spring's eight, which the Crimson beat by seven seconds. The shell which Sherm Gray captains from his number four slide is a little more advanced than itds predecessors, but it is certainly not fast enough to nose the Engineers if they should improve last April's opening performance by a quarter minute...
Bowman Bruce Pirnie and Sam Goddard at number three are the only men rowing in last June's positions. Captain Sherm Gray has been moved from six to four, stroke Jack Wilson is at present on the Jayvees, and Bob Fowler is not rowing this year because of V-7 cruise requirements...
Just how the Varsity will shape up is still a question to which the coming week's intensive training may well give some clues. At present Jack Wilson at stroke, Sherm Gray at six, and Sam Goddard at three, all veterans from last year's New London crew, are the only men rowing their usual positions regularly. Bruce Pirnie, veteran bowman, is temporarily out of action, and Bob Fowler, number four last year, probably will not row because of naval commitments...