Emmet Becomes University Single Sculls Champion

The biggest day of the biggest week of the single scull season closed last night with Dick Emmet ensconced as king of the University singles. Tomorrow many of yesterday's singles participants and seven Crimson eights will churn downstream for the festive American Rowing Association Regatta at 1 p.m.

Emmet, a first year Law student, fulfilled the expectations of Weld and of Newell, where he rowed on the varsity eight last year, by winning the three-quarter mile senior singles race. Reeling out a long, powerful stroke with a slow, lazy recovery to the half-mile mark, Emmet raised the stroke to 35 per minute on the last half-mile to outspurt Homer Zink, quarter-mile ace, by a boat length. The time: 5:10.0, the second best course time ever.

Low Strokes Pay Off

A smooth stroke with a long easy run paid off with first place in the other races, also. Fred Richardson nosed out faster-stroking Russ Bath by a half length in 3:32 in the half-mile 155-pound race. This race was closely contested by four scullers until the last 20 strokes when Richardson and Bath slowly and steadily pulled away.

In the junior singles, Dave White outclassed all his competitors. Slight-built White moved off from a strong, heavy field at around 28 strokes per minute to win by eight boat lengths over second place Charlie Rheault in 5:24.6 in a three-quarter mile race.