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...will be a less enviable task to select it. This year, for the first time in history, the American entries in the eight-oared and four-with-coxswain events will not come from a weekend of one-shot trial races, but from a carefully picked group of oarsmen from college and club eights all over the country...
...doubt, all of them are fine oarsmen, and several will probably row at Munich, but as far as several coaches including Penn's Ted Nash are concerned, many other good athletes were left...
THAT'S WHY the summer camp was conceived. MIT coach Jack Frailey had argued ever since the Mexico games that maybe it was too much to expect one college, or one club, to have eight oarsmen who could win a gold medal against the kind of competition Europe, Australia and New Zealand was putting up. West German boats had won at Rome, and they had won at Mexico City. Quite possibly, they could win at Munich, too, unless a fairly radical change was made in the selection process for the U. S. team...
Parker figures the competition at the camp will be intense, and plans to center the selection process around seat-racing procedures. The 40 competitors will race in four-man boats to weed out the lesser oarsmen...
...What we are looking for," Parker said yesterday, "is the fastest boat that we can possibly put together. The oarsmen who rowed for Harvard this year would be considered very good by almost any standards. However, it is impossible to predict how they will do or what will happen at the camp. They are going to be up against some really stiff competition...