ROUGH THAMES WATERS NEARLY SWAMP SHELLS

Red Top, Conn., June 16--Rough water, which nearly swamped the Freshman and Combination crews in their workouts on the Thames this afternoon, provided the excitement for the day as the Harvard oarsmen brushed up on fundamentals in preparation for the gruelling race with the Eli eight on next Friday. A brisk wind ruffied the surface of the river during both workouts with the result that the University and Jayvee crews stuck to the shore in their morning paddle.

A. H. Parker, who stroked the Crimson Freshman eight last year, was elected captain of the Combination crew after the day's practice. Parker is now setting the beat for his crew. While the upper class eights stayed in the smooth water during the morning row, the 1933 and Combination shells set off for a point two miles down stream, and returned in short stretches. In the afternoon the two eights went down as far as the three mile flag and it was on this trip that they shipped gallons of water.

The first and second University crews picked out a smooth stretch of about a mile and a half opposite the camp and spent the early evening hours paddling up and down at a low stroke. With last Saturday's time row as the last hard workout expected before the crew lines up with Yale by the bluff across from camp next Friday evening, the oarsmen are thinking hard about individual faults in order to be in top form for the race. The crew seems to be in good spirits now, and appears to have developed more smoothness in the last few days of rowing.