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...only the historic Adams Cup, but also the sprint championship of the East will go to the winner of this afternoon's Varsity race, scheduled for 5:45 o'clock over the mile and three-quarters course in the basin. Co-favorites Harvard and Navy, as well as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and M. I. T. will be at the stakeboats when Lt. Colonel Howard Robbins, veteran referee, clips out the commands of "Are you ready? Ready all. Row!" to the 40 oarsmen tensely poised at the catch...
Theoretically then, if Harvard is going to win the Adams Cup, it will have to come from behind to do it, and the scene of this incipient drama is the last quarter mile, when Curwen, if he is behind, is bound to unleash the blistering sprint which makes Harvard the great crew that...
...drops to 32, Childs stays at 35, and this higher stroking should give Navy an early advantage. On such things is unusually abyssmal on such things is unusually abysmal this year, forsces a grim struggle in the last, long quarter mile as Childs strives to stave off the closing sprint which Curwen is bound to spark. At a low stroke the Varsity is not overly impressive, but when Captain Ted Lyman's men got swinging over 36, their power and precision have thus far seemed unbeatable...
...time this season, took two hurdle seconds in excellent times; while Ted Bauer, four-event man, got a third and a fourth among the timber-toppers, and a third in the broad-jump. Gordy Lyle established himself as the top dash man, with an excellent fourth lap of the sprint relay, and a tie for second in the 220, while Steve Brooks snapped out of his recent slump with a 12 foot 6 inch hoist in the pole vault. Had the Crimson's Mike Ford been leaping, the home forces might have gathered more than one first place, chalked...
...Penn clash did it falter. Captain Lou Clay eased up for the first three batters in the Unlucky Seventh, allowing two singles and then a home run to left by Sophomore first baseman Art McQuillen. The Crimson's one-run comeback in the ninth failed to overcome the Quaker sprint...