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...York, senior singles title holder of last year, retained his championship in the closing and perhaps closest race of the afternoon, when after having caught a crab at the start, he drew up to the front and sped across the finish line of the short 300-yard sprint. He was closely followed by J. G. Park, who had qualified for this race by winning the men's Novice Singles, and by S. D. Peirce '32, Frame's time of 1 minute and 1 second is short only three seconds of his record time of last year...
...between them. In the back stretch of the last lap, Lovelock was running smoothly, holding himself in. Then Bonthron let loose. Lovelock, with less effort, held his own. For five steps on the final turn they ran shoulder to shoulder. And then Lovelock swept out front with a terrific sprint. Bonthron bowed his close-cropped head, futilely pounded his spiked feet as Lovelock crossed the tape leading by seven strides. The time...
...Long Beach, Calif., in a regatta organized by Los Angeles promoters, University of Washington beat Yale, sprint champion in the East, by six feet, over the 2,000-meter Olympic course. Nearest thing to a 1933 substitute for the canceled Poughkeepsie regatta, the race was won against a crisp bow wind in 6:38 4/5 -10 sec. off the Olympic record...
Harvard had a huge crew-183 Ib. to a man-slow over sprint courses but formidable for a four-mile race like last week's at New London. In it were Coxswain Henry Hamilton Bissell, Stroke Gerard Cassedy and four other oarsmen who were on the crews that beat Yale last year and the year before. Coach Ed Leader's Yale boat, known to be fast, had won all three of its sprint races earlier in the season. But no one knew whether it had enough endurance for a long pull, particularly if the wind blew...
Although the eight has had only a few days of practice together, it already begins to show signs of being the sprint crew it is intended to be. In a race so short as the 2000-metre it is essential that the crew be able to maintain a racing stroke of 34 or 35 without losing any of the smoothness and proportion which is easier to obtain at a lower beat. For this reason Coach Whiteside will lay special emphasis on paddles at this tempo, and also on racing starts and twenty-stroke sprints which are both essential factors...