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...since the Olympics at Helsinki last summer, when they whipped the Russians in the final quarter mile, had Navy's undefeated crew faced such a challenge. Navy, sprint champions of the East at 2,000 meters, faced the rangy oarsmen of the University of Washington, undefeated this season and determined to revenge their poor showing in last year's Olympic trials. Moreover, the three-mile distance of the Syracuse Regatta was made to order for long-ranging Washington, while Navy had not raced beyond a mile and three quarters all season. Posted conspicuously in the Washington boathouse...
...fast start gave Navy a slim lead over Washington at the half-mile mark. By then, following the pre-race instructions of its canny Coach Rusty Callow, Navy began to save strength, switched to a long, easy 28-stroke-a-minute beat, to have plenty left for a finish sprint...
...Newport Beach, Calif., the California crew won the Western Sprint Championship for the third year in a row, beating Stanford by 4.2 seconds...
Peter Dow put on a tremendous finishing sprint Saturday afternoon at Triborough Stadium to take a surprise second in the IC4A 220 yard dash...
...Washington, in the first major crew race held on the Potomac-and the first ever televised-Navy's Olympic champions won their igth straight and the Eastern Sprint championship, beating Harvard by a third of a length. Other finishers, in order: Wisconsin, Cornell, Columbia, Penn...