Navy Sweeps to Victory Over Crimson As Jayves Nose Out Annapolis Second

From two or three of the most closely contested races of the season on Saturday afternoon over the 1 3-4 mile course in the Basin, the Varsity roeing squad emerged with an even record of one hardearned victory over Navy, and one well-contested defeat at the hands of the Midshipmen and Penn. In the Varsity heat, the Navy finished first in 10 minutes, 8 seconds, three feet ahead of Penn, whose time was 10 minutes, 8 2-5 seconds. The Crimson eight trailed Penn by three-quarters of a length, to cross the line in 10 minutes, 11-3-5 seconds.

With a strong beam wind from the Southwest, the three Varsity crews got off to a perfect start. Harvard took an almost imperceptible lead in the first fifteen stroke, but after a minute of rowing, the Penn crew had gained the lead by one or two feet. with Navy trailing the Crimson by less than a dock. From the end of the second minute to the middle of the eighth, the prows of the three shells were within ten fact of each other, with the Naval Academy always in the rear.

Not until the last ten strokes was the race decided. The Navy had gradually brought its heat to 39: Penn, by this time exhausted was pulling a franbtie 38; and Cassedy's timing was about 35. After passing Harvard, the Navy boat overtook Penn in short space, and after an undecided 100 feet of rowing in which first she, then Penn led, crossed the finish line three feet of in front of her competitor.

In the Jayvee race, the Crimson eight finished a deck ahead of the Naval Academy in 10 minutes, 2 seconds, one second before the losers. Penn did not compete.

Getting off to a brilliant start at 3.30 o'clock on smoother water than had the Varsity the Crimson second crew found itself in the lead by three-quarters of a length after twenty strokes.

At the Harvard bridge, the Jayvees had piled up a 1 1-2 length lead over the Midshipmen; but just beyond the bridge they intercepted the wash of an outboard motorboat so that they were almost forced to stop rowing, and the Navy overhauled them by a length.

At a quarter of a mile from the finish a police launch that was chasing the speedy outboard motorboat gave the Crimson crew another wash, and the Midshipmen. rowing at 36, got ahead by a deck Stroke Drury raised the Crimson beat from 33 as soon as the wash had subsided; and Coxswain Littlefield spurred the crew by telling them that there were only ten strokes to go when there were actually twenty. Drury and his crew responded with what was the best sprint witnessed this year on the Charles; and they nosed out the Midshipmen by a bare quarter-length.

The Varsity showed a vast improvement on Saturday over their race with M. I. T. and Princeton, on April 29. It has now shown itself definitely to be a long distance crew; on Saturday it kept abreast of the other crews throughout the race at a stroke, considerably below theirs. But if the Varsity is proficient at low strokes. it is below standard at high strokes; when the best exceeds 33, the boat checks disproportionately, and power is lost. Saturday's race demonstrated that the crew has overcome the checking at a low stroke which lost it the Princeton race.

There is now every reason to believe that in the four-mile every at New London three weeks hence, the Varsity will give Yale a real battle.

The seconds have shown themselves to be a formidable short distance crew. They utilize every ounce of power generated by the high beats of which they