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...Massachusetts Avenue bridge up to the mile mark, Navy had a fairly comfortable two-length lead, with Penn and Harvard, never more than half a length apart, fighting it out for second. So they finished, with Navy under wraps (a 36 beat), and Penn nipping Harvard's sprint finish (38) by two feet. Navy's time for the mile and three-quarters: 8:51.4, three-seconds off the course record...
...such luck befell the swift Crimson eight which, sleepless from a night of meticulous proofreading, after the nine tussle was forced to row the Olympic half-mile sprint course on a wind-whipped Charles against a tenman 'Poon shell, powered by a small auxiliary marine engine imported from Japan...
...sprint relay team composed of Twitchell, Dow, Pete Curran, and Paul Sheats could take a first with good passing...
Rowing the entire mile and five-sixteenths at the very high stroke of 34 and closing with a final sprint, the Penn varsity lightweight boat nipped Harvard by two seconds to win the Joseph Wright Trophy in the E.A.R.C. regatta Saturday at Princeton...
...left off in March of '39 was Lowell House sophomore Irving M. Clark, Jr., '42. In 10 minutes, on the evening of March 26, Clark, clad in a Crimson sweater, gulped down 23 of the aquatic animals, his weight climbing from 158 to 165 in the process. During the sprint Clark paused only long enough to suck on an orange between fish. Circus offers followed, but the sophomore was uninterested, preferring to retain his "amateur standing...