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...lead and although McCagg upped the best again, the Crimson could gain only a couple of seats on Cornell. McCagg raised the stroke to a 33 and then gradually all the way to a 41, which the Crimson held for the entire last quatrer mile in a terrific final sprint. But Harvard's oarsmen couldn't quite do it. They closed a little on Cornell but the Big Red matched their sprint, and won. Love expects no more boating changes before the June 20 Yale race
...former minor-league ballplayer. With Kentucky Derby Winner Hill Gail out of action with an ankle ailment, 1952's Triple Crown is already split. But Blue Man's showing puts him near the head of the class. ¶ The Navy crews (varsity, j.v. and freshmen), the Eastern sprint (2,000-meter) regatta; at Princeton, N.J. ¶ The California crew, an upset, over powerhouse Washington (by four lengths); in Oakland, Calif. ¶ Jockey Johnny Longden, race No. 4,000, to put him numerically head & shoulders over the rest of the U.S. jockeys; at California's Hollywood Park...
Stork Sanford's Big Red, besides losing to the Crimson at Princeton, have also lost to both Yale and the Tigers in the sprint in the Carnegie Cup race the week before, but only three-quarters of a length separated all three boats. Prior to that race the low-stroking Ithaca crew had turned in easy victories over B.U., Columbia, and Syracuse twice...
Crimson oarsmen spent the weekend achieving the dubious distinction of placing in more E.A.R.C. races than any of the other runner-ups to Navy, which gained the Eastern sprint championship indisputably by winning all its events...
Pete Dow got a second in the 100 yard dash, and Charlie Durakis finished fifth in the high hurdles. The sprint relay team finished fourth, mostly on the strength of a fine anchor leg by Dow. The remaining Crimson points were scored by Phil Pratt with a fourth in the discus and by Bob Mello, who tied for third in the pole vault...