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...biggest money winner in the field, with $445,829 in total earnings. Proud Clarion, in fact, had never even won a stakes race. As a twoyear-old, he had earned a paltry $805 finishing third in one out of three starts. This year he won a few sprint races and finished second to Diplomat Way, another Derby entrant, in the Blue Grass Stakes, pushing his earnings to $14,060. But what the big bay did have -and what the handicappers overlooked-were good blood lines and a trainer with roses in his past. Sired by Hail to Reason, a onetime...
Northeastern, which entered the Sprint competition for the first time last year, has been seeded second behind the Harvard heavyweight varsity. In the Crimson's season debut, Northeastern led practically all the way down the course before falling behind by one second at the finish line...
Harvard responded with a second power ten and pulled out to a 6-seat margin going into the last half-mile. Princeton upped the stroke for the final sprint, but Harvard wore the Tigers out with a third power...
Ever-mindful of the six-minute barrior for 2000 meters and the Tech sprint, the Crimson raised the stroke over the last quarter-mile and crossed the line at a nicely-swinging 36. They finished in 6:05 without any challenge from the spent Tech boat...
...higher stroking Tech shell, however, hung on stubbornly just off Harvard's rudder as Dartmouth dropped back. Neither boat was able to move on the other until the sprint when Tech came back two seats, but Harvard held them off and crossed the line...