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...Freshman 150-pound crews rowed a mile from the Union Boathouse to the Harvard Bridge, the Harvard first year men winning by a length in a sprint in the last 100 yards. The race was rowed in very rough water, the Crimson eight completing the distance in five minutes 24 seconds...
Before the initial quarter-mile sprint was over, the first crew, rowing 39 strokes to the minute, had overhauled the Junior boat and was gaining rapidly on the Ineligibles. From this point on, the race tightened, with all three boats stroking a steady 32-beat. In the closing half-mile straightaway, the Ineligibles failed to sprint in time to cover the determined rush started by Captain Watts and, had it not been for the clever steering of their coxswain, C. H. Pforzheimer '28, would have fallen more than a length behind. Open water still separated them from the Lawrence crew...
...fourth of March. It is hardly to be supposed that the reading public, long-suffering as it is, could have stomached a daily blurb as to the progress of the caravan. This, too, is as the A B C to Mr. Pyle. But only wait until the final sprint breaks loose somewhere in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, and the handful of hardy soles left cuts loose. Then will come the deluge, Syndicated throughout the length and breadth of the land will be feature stories on the great race. They will not run on back pages; they will be real news...
Crew C, with M. R. Brownell '30 rowing at a steady beat, forced the winners after the initial sprint in which Lawrence's boat gained the greater part of its lead. Crew B, paced by A. T. Gray '30 was out of the running after the first few furlongs...
Belloni and Beckman were second. Already, the evening before, Belloni had pedaled round the ring with a bundle of flowers sent to him by an admirer. A handsome Italian with two locks of curly hair sticking out over his forehead like horns, Belloni until the final sprint had threatened to beat Georgetti. So had Letourner and Brocardo, two small, nervy French boys. On the fifth night Brocardo fell four times, skidded down the wall of the saucer, strapped to his pedals. The third time he was knocked unconscious. In fifteen minutes he got up and rode again. McNamara, "Iron...