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Four days later, the largest flotilla of shells ever to compete in one regatta-32 in all-lined up on Lake Onondaga, N.Y. for the 2,000-meter Eastern sprint championships for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen. With the traditional coach's gloom, Tom Bolles said: "In a short race, some egg beater might win." But when the six varsity finalists (Pennsylvania, Navy, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Harvard) got off the mark, it was clear that no egg beater was going to steal the race...
...Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open water over runnerup Penn. The time: 6:48.8. It was the varsity's fourth straight victory of the season, and the third year in a row for Tom Bolles & Co. in the Eastern sprint regatta. The others also got something to think about for 1950. Harvard's junior varsity and freshmen crews won their races...
Eliot's crew grabbed an early one length lead from Jonathan Edwards College and finished the same distance ahead without ever using its sprint...
...which Harvard faces Saturday, May 28 on Lake Cayuga, gave Princeton quite a battle for third place and lost by just a deck length. Yale, the defending sprint champion, was never in the contention after the first half mile...
Like the varsity, the jayvees also were forced to row a fast stroke at the finish of their six-crew finals. To defeat Princeton by two-thirds of a length, the Crimson junior varsity had to sprint...