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Three Harvard crews left no question as to their supremacy in the East Saturday when they scored an unprecedented sweep of the 2000 meter championship sprint regatta held at Syracuse by the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges. The victories netted the Crimson a total of 261 losers' rowing shirts...
Usually accustomed to a low-stroking effort over a mile and three-quarters distance, the Crimson varsity demonstrated that it could also raise a high beat as it turned on its fastest sprint of the season to edge Penn and Princeton in the finals and gain possession of the Rowe...
Penn, a high-stroking, "sprint" crew was especially formidable over the short distance, but the Crimson's job was somewhat lightened by the fact that the Quakers' shell veered off the course until it came dangerously near the beach...
Harvard didn't gain the lead until the halfway mark. Stroke Bill Curwen had been setting a steady 32 beat and then slowly increased it to 36 to pull even with the Penn beat which was stroking at 39. The Crimson's terrific sprint, coupled with Penn's poor steering, gave Harvard a two-thirds length victory victory and with it the championship...
...until the last two minutes that the stroke oar alters his stopwatch planning to fit the situation. Then, if he is behind, he stakes everything on a final sprint to the finish. This is the most crucial and exciting part of the race, for the oarsmen are already dead tired, and a higher stroke increases the chance of a mistake...