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...crews jerked away from the starting line together, but before they had moved 200 yards up the Thames the race was really over. Cambridge, stroked for the third year by Thomas A. Brocklebank, had settled into a smooth, fast stroke, a half-length ahead. Oxford, whose crews have failed to win since 1923, was splashing the water unrhythmically, losing distance...
...Springfield Rowing Association's eight-oar crew: the senior race in the regatta of the National Association of Amateur oarsmen, at Boston, beating the New York Athletic club by a half-length...
Livingston, the 17-year-old Kent stroke, collapsed after the Princeton race. They had to carry him into the hotel. Next day Kent finished a half-length behind Worcester College, Oxford, whom they had been figured to beat easily. Kent's assistant Coach Colmore, captain-elect of next year's Princeton varsity, said: "My oarsmen were tired out before they started." But so had they tired the Worcester crew that Worcester lost the final and the Thames Challenge Cup to the Vesta Boat Club by a whole length...
Cornell had not won a Poughkeepsie regatta since the late Charles E. ("Pop") Courtney's last great crew in 1915. But stubbornly this crew kept the lead by a foot or two at Coe's Cut. M. I. T. was a half-length in front of California, with Syracuse. Navy, Washington and Columbia a few yards apart. At two and a half miles Cornell was a quarter of a length out and Syracuse had passed California. Then, "Open water." yelled the Cornell crowd. Captain Shoemaker and Coach Jim Wray, following their men in the Cornell launch...
...Laverne Fator, No. 2 U. S. jockey, up on Patroness: a duel with Earl Sande, No. 1 U. S. jockey, on Flying Gal, in the Hanover handicap at Aqueduct, N. Y., by a half-length...