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Primarily, their unenviable position as "the crew to beat" is because of their superb showing in the Eastern Association's 2000-meter sprint regatta at Princeton last month. The Varsity won going away from Navy and Cornell, the number one and two boats in the Poughkeepsie event, in the time of 6:05, just off the distance record. In addition, their nearest competitor was more than seven seconds behind...
...Tall, balding Gus Hennig, chief guard for the past 37 years, smiles and says: 'It's wicked out there today.' As you walk on to the floor a messenger in full sprint about knocks you down. The great paneled room resembles a large railroad station at 5 p.m. when commuters are racing for trains. High above the trading floor are the big blackboards carrying quotations for wheat, corn and other commodities...
...Colleges, sponsors of the Second Annual Championship Regatta at Princeton next Saturday, tried yesterday to salvage something from this mess when they gave the Crimson, Cornell, and Navy top seeding. (Navy has lost to both Harvard and Yale.) But there will be seven other crews in the 2000-meter sprint on Lake Carnegie and only a couple of them can be counted completely out of the running...
Sophomore Dean Dunlavey, heralded as the savior of a sagging Varsity sprint corps, will run the 220 tomorrow against Tufts, Boston College, and Holy Cross, Coach Mikkola said yesterday...
Today, however, the Crimson will emerge from its Hotel Taft billets enmasse in the teeth of the first seeded Bulldogs. Captain John Watkins will be taking the gun in the 100 sprint, Jerry Gorman, Forbes Norris, and Larry Miner in the quarter mile, and Chuck Hoelzer in the 200-yard butterfly...