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Rutgers crews row with the same shorter reach and layback that Bolles has introduced here, and reports say they space well, have clean blade work and in the Manhattan race they finished with a powerful sprint at 34 strokes to the minute. It will be an interesting race, but although we can't tell too much it doesn't appear that the Scariet boat can have much of a chance against a Crimson crew that starts easily, swings along with smooth powerful 32 and can spring up to 40 at the finish...
...Jayvee race will be a set-up for Harvard. Rutgers second lost to Manhattan and after rowing the entire race at 30, they didn't leave anything left at the finish to sprint with. Logg has been working on that weakness all week, but the Varsity crew only beat Harvard's Jayvees by three lengths Tuesday, and Tom Bolles' boys will be miles ahead of their competitors in this race...
...last spring, the first boat rallied its forces to score a major upset over Yale in June, leaving the Elis miles up the Thames. The coming of Tom Bolles added coals to the rising fire of enthusiasm, and now the triumph at Princeton marks the first win in a sprint race since the golden days of Killer Cassidy...
Coxwain Fox started to yell to the power in the waist of the boat, and though the stroke didn't go up then, the power went on and the unbelievably smooth boat pulled away, opening up a lead they climaxed in a beautiful closing sprint...
...would sprint across the floor when he saw his team had the ball and wave his arms wildly and shout, "Here! Here! Throw it here!" Then the ball would be thrown elsewhere, and he would grow! and mutter an "Oh, damn!" Once he captured the ball out of the air and started to dribble madly towards the basket. Suddenly he bethought himself of an unselfish move and pushed the ball into the unsuspecting arms of a teammate. Before the latter had taken two steps, and before he could get ahead of him, he shouted, "Pass it back, pass it back...