Crew Eight Goes To Red Top for Yale Preparation

Crimson crewmen entrain today for Red Top where they begin training tomorrow for the June 20 Yale race. The Harvard oarsmen are four days behind their opponents, who hit the Thames River at 6 a.m. last Monday in their first practice for the 100th annual Harvard Yale race.

This year, the race will be upstream and there will be an observation train following the four-mile course from start to finish. Tickets for the train, which is in two sections, one leaving from New York and one from Boston, are available at the H.A.A. for ten dollars.

Yale's four crews will live at Gales Ferry, a half mile upstream from the Crimson's Red Top headquarters. Both colleges will hold workouts twice a day.

The Elis have rowed four races this season, and lost all of them, but showed marked improvement towards the end of the year. The Crimson has rowed five races, winning only the first two, but it has bettered Yale in the Eastern Sprints. The upstream course record, 19:54.2, was set by the Elis in 1949, the only four-mile race they have won since 1936.