THAYER CREW DEFEATED ELIOT.

Thayer club crew was the winner in yesterday's upper class races on the Charles river. The crews left Newell boat house at 4 o'clock promptly and rowed leisurely down stream to the Cottage Farm bridge, where they were lined up. The race was over the mile course to the Harvard bridge down stream.

From the start Thayer held the advantage, pulling away from Eliot inperceptibly but steadily. Both crews rowed well, and without breaks, finishing in good condition. At no time did Thayer so increase its lead as to exclude all possibility of the other's winning, and when it crossed the finish line it was only three-fourths of a length ahead. The members of the winning crew will receive individual medals.

The annual fall regatta will be held next Friday. The Freshman dormitory crews will race for the Slocum cup which was taken from Smith Halls last year by Standish. Members of these winning crews will also receive individual medals.

As several of the men on the club crews are going to report next week at Framingham as military instructors, the crews will be broken up. From those who remain a crew will be picked which will race the Freshman crew.

At the regatta on Friday there will also be "comp" and wherry races, which are open to all members of the University. Opportunity will be given for men to enter this race next week, announcement of which will be made later.