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Guggenheim and Ellsworth have matched their prize colts once before. Never Bend and Candy Spots met as two-year-olds at last summer's $357,250 Arlington-Washington Futurity in Chicago. It was a bad day all around for Guggenheim. Candy Spots won by a half-length, and Never Bend's Jockey Ycaza was grounded for 60 days for a "completely unwarranted" claim of foul. Yet both horses were operating under handicaps. Never Bend had sprained a back muscle at Saratoga, and Candy Spots, still green, was running in only his third race. "Candy Spots won magnificently," Guggenheim...
...Crimson, who had recovered from a defeat by Cornell and Rutgers two weeks ago to win the Compton Cup on the Charles last week, just could not keep even with the powerful Middies, who broke to a half-length lead in the first quarter-mile...
...freshman race M.I.T. opened up an early half-length lead over the Crimson and increased it to three-quarters of a length at the finish, with Dartmouth again trailing the field by four lengths. Tech's time was 7:04.2, with the Crimson closing at 7:07 and Dartmouth...
Humbling the London Boat Club's second crew two days later, Coolidge's powerhouse met Kent School, of Kent Conn. in the quarter-finals. Though plagued by colds and outweighed by the schoolboys, the varsity reached the dnish one half-length out in front...
...Friday both crews met their Isis counterparts in their toughest races of the Regatta. Racing against the 'fifties, Isis immediately jumped to a half-length lead, but just past the half the Crimson edged ahead, expecting the English crew to fade after its opening sprint. Instead, Isis hung on and only a strong Crimson finish put the 'fifties ahead by a canvas...