CREW MEETS TECH, SYRACUSE, CORNELL ON CHARLES TODAY

Putting a flotilla of eights on the water today, Harvard will serve in the double capacity of co-host with Tech and hard-fighting competitor to the untried Ithacans and the Big Red crews. The Crimson will go to the line in the Varsity, Jayvee, Freshman, and 150 pound classes as will Cornell and Tech, with only Syracuse failing to bring its full complement of 36 men ready to pull or yell for the alma mater until the last ounce of energy is expended.

Although Syracuse is making its debut, Jim Ten Eyck's 33 years of coaching are pretty good insurance that the Ithacan eights will not fail to give the more seasoned outfits plenty to worry about. Cornell, which lost last week to the powerful Midy shell, is very much in the running in spite of its defeat since the Navy oarsmen are conceded to be among the best in Eastern racing circles, while Tech although beaten last Saturday by Harvard over the same course, has been strengthened by the return of its stroke, Guy Haines, son of the Tech coach. The Crimson has lost John Paul Austin, the number two man, from the lineup which rowed the Tiger, but Oliver Scott, who has been filling his place capably, is expected to prove a substitute in name only.

The only Crimson crews which have yet to make their first appearance in official competition are the two light- weight shells. The Varsity fifties are very much of an unknown quantity with only two veterans from the 1934 eight although there are four Sophomores from the yearling crew which took over the Eli aggregation last spring. Tom Whitney, who is setting the beat as well as captaining the boat, stroked two crews for the Crimson in his Freshman year when he took over the pace-setting position of the heavy yearlings after timing the Freshman fifties. Although he did not row last year, his experience may be able to make up for the fact that the men he now has behind him have yet to race together

If it is a good day and racing conditions are not unduly poor, the large crowds anticipated may be treated to the sight of a badly broken set of records. The new course, which was christened only last week, will have its best time of 9--22 3-5 seriously challenged when four high-powered rowing colleges put everything they have over the course one after another. Opportunity to see all gradations of rowing will be offered since in the early afternoon a schoolboy regatta will be held over the three quarter mile course off Magazine beach, while at 2 o'clock the House crews, admittedly unfinished, but making up in spirit of pure amateurism what they lack in smoothness, will splash over the Henley course for the honor of racing Yale.

Today's boatings:

Varsity Crew

William C. Haskins '37, bow; Oliver K. Scott '37, 2; Raymond S. Clark '36, 3; Edward B. Simmons '37, 4; Thomas H. Choate '37; 5; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37, 6; Leonard P. Eliel '36, 7; Samuel S. Drury '35, stroke; Thomas H. Hunter '35, cox.

Junior Varsity Crew

Talbot Rantoul '36, bow; Roger W. Cutley,Jr.'37, 2; Philip V. Bray '35, 3; Henry Saltonstall '35, 4; Henry F. Atherton Jr. '36, 5; George T. Keyes '36, 6; Robert B. Watson '37, 7; Robert B. Cutler '35, stroke; Edward H. Bennett, Jr. '37, cox.

Varsity 150 Pound Crew

John W. Perry '37, bow; George E. Hall '37, 2; John G. Piper '36, 3; Alexander H. Bill, Jr. '35, 4; Samuel Adams '37, 5; Dunbar Carpenter '37, 6; Mark H. Dall '37, 7; Thomas H. P. Whitney '35, stroke, Edward T. Barker '37, cox.

Freshman Crew

Peter T. Brooks, bow; John R. Clark, 2; Fellowes D. Gardner, 3; Peter L. Scott, 4; John S. Radway, 5; Douglas Erickson, 6; Edmond S. Twinning, 7; James F. Chase, stroke; Edward White, cox.

Freshman 150 Pound Crew

David R. Donovan, bow; Manson V. B. Jennings, 2; George S. Lewis, II, 3; George vonL. Meyer, III, 4; James H. Jackson, 5; John P. Lee, 6; Thomas E. Ross, 7; Albert Stickney, Jr., stroke; Joseph W. Valentine, cox