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This year, the race will be upstream and there will be an observation train following the four-mile course from start to finish. Tickets for the train, which is in two sections, one leaving from New York and one from Boston, are available at the H.A.A. for ten dollars...
Newell Boathouse experts are shaking their heads nowadays and muttering. "What do you have to do to win?" And well they might. The Harvard varsity heavy crew rowed its best race of the season last Saturday. In fact, the best mile and three-quarter upstream race ever rowed on the Charles up until then. It broke the previous record--set by Harvard's '49 varsity--by 2.3 seconds...
Bert Haines 150 pound crew coach will start and referee the race and Carroll F. Getchell will be the head finish judge. The weather and wind will determine whether the race will be upstream or downstream...
...Crimson eight, rowing the mile-and-three-quarter upstream course in per feet racing conditions with a light tall wind, never had a chance to win. Navy, a heavier and smoother boat, led all the way and won easily by two lengths in 8:51.4, 3.4, seconds off the course record. Penn, which had trailed the Crimson through most of the race, caught and passed Harvey Love's rowers in the last 25 strokes, edging them by a quarter of a length in 8:57. The Crimson's time...
Course: One and three-quarter miles upstream in the Charles River Basin. The Races will be broadcast from walkie-talkie in the launch.THE ADAMS...