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Outrowing the Tech and Harvard University crews three and four lengths respectively, defeating the Crimson Freshmen by almost two lengths, and losing the jayvee race with only seven men rowing for the last half mile, three Cornell crews virtually made a clean sweep of the races on the Charles River Basin last Saturday...
...mile mark Cornell had a decided lead which stretched longer and longer as the three crew swept down towards the northeast corner of the Basin. With the winner out ahead, Harvard and Tech were left to fight it out for second place. Here the latter's lighter weight which allowed them to ride clear of the waves and their ability to stick to Harvard with a lower pace then S. W. Swaim '31 had been setting for his crew, proved the decisive factors. As the Engineers raised the beat in the final quarter mile they passed the Crimson oarsmen...
...Harvard Freshman crew, rowing its second scheduled race, after defeating the Tech 1932 crew last Wednesday by over five lengths, takes on the Cornell first-year eight this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the mile and three quarters Basin course. Harvard will be on the Cambridge side when the crews line up for the start...
...Harvard 150-pound and Freshman crews, rowing in races postponed twice since last Saturday, defeated the corresponding Tech crews by three and one half and five lengths respectively in the Basin yesterday afternoon...
...first-year race was even less of a contest, for the rough water conditions proved too much for the Tech oarsmen. Harvard jumped them at the start and drew away easily at a 30 stroke-per- minute clip, with their rivals trailing at a-28, until there were two lengths of open water between the boats at the Harvard Bridge. After the mile mark was passed, the engineers started catching crabs which proved fatal to their chances of winning, and a quarter of a mile from the finish the stroke man caught one which temporarily disabled the entire crew, although...