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Best team last week was Soichi Sakamoto's Hawaii University Swim Club (TIME, July 29), which picked up right where it left off in 1941. Led by sprint champ Bill Smith, it swept the meet easily...
...Husky crew jumped into an early lead, stayed there until the three-quarters mark. Then Cornell, in the sheltered No.1 lane toward shore, stepped up its beat to 37. Ten powerful strokes pulled the Cornell shell into command; it held the lead against M.I.T.'s finish-line sprint. Washington's Huskies came in third. Wisconsin's heretics also...
Slated to row the 2000 meter sprint on Lake Washington are, at present, Sylvester Gardiner at stroke, Bim Chanler, Lane Barton, Paul Knaplund, Mike Scully, Tom Perry, Lew Bohn, and Barrie White in the bow, with Sam King behind the magaphone, in that order. John Gormley and Lou Cox will also make the trip...
...sprint between the fat figure of U.S. plenty and the gaunt shape of world hunger still seemed a losing race. Despite record wheat exports-3,374,000 tons from Jan. 1 to May 10-on May 10 the U.S. was nearly 1,000,000 tons behind its colossal goal: 6,000,000 tons before June 30. For the first ten days of May the U.S. had paced itself for 333,000 tons, only 105,000 tons had actually sailed from U.S. ports. And never before had the per capita food consumption of U.S. civilians been higher: 14% above prewar years...
Although the 2000 meter course is a short wind sprint compared to the annual four mile pre-war Poughkeepsie Regatta, it has been heralded as the big event of the crew season inasmuch as the Hudson River outing will not be held this year...