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...crew last won the fours in 1948, but Harvard's can't be counted out. They've been rowing together a year, less than most of the other crews, but their record is impressive--only a half-length loss in practice to Vesper's "middle four" mars their record...
When the favorite, Roman Brother, sprinted in ahead of the pack by a half-length, whoops of joy resounded from Flushing, Mich., to Hyattsville, Md.* Two winners were actually on hand to witness their triumph. Mrs. Frank Malkus, wife of a Carteret, N.J., barber, burst into tears, displayed her rosary, sobbing, "I held this the whole time." Paul Cordone, a beverage distributor from Gloversville, N.Y., stood up under his $100,000 winnings more philosophically. "I'm even with horses for life," he exclaimed...
...number one-seeded boat, coach Harry Parker's heavyweight varsity is officially favored to break Cornell's domination of the sprints. But the precise seedings don't mean that much; whatever the result, the top three seeds, Harvard, Yale, and Cornell, will probably finish very closely--within a half-length of each other...
Second choice of the bettors at 4-1 (odds on Kelso: 1-2), Mongo broke in front and was never headed. At the end Kelso was a half-length back, and eight foreign horses-from England, France, Venezuela, Ireland, Hungary and the Soviet Union-were practically out of sight. Kelso's Jockey Ismael Valenzuela claimed that Mongo had interfered with Kelso on the final turn, but the stewards dismissed the objection. The victory was worth $90,000-the biggest purse of Mongo's three-year career. Kelso got $25,000, and Jockey Valenzuela got a special award...
Penn, which gave the Crimson their first defeat of the year last Saturday by a half-length margin, has worked this year primarily at the 2000-meter sprint distance, and could be the eight to upset Cornell. But Parker is not pessimistic. "We're right on the brink of hitting a really good speed," said Parker, and if the heavyweights do hit it, anything could happen...