Varsity 150s End Fourth in EARC With J.V.s Third

High hopes and low time trials were not enough to give three Crimson 150-pound shells wins in Saturday's 150-pound E.A.R.C. Championships on Lake Carnegie at Princeton.

The varsity eight finished fourth, two and a half lengths off the record-setting pace of the undefeated Princeton shell, which captured the Joseph Wright Trophy, highest award for the nation's Highweight crows.

Top-seeded junior varsity and freshman shells lost their first race of the season, with the J.V.s two and a half lengths behind winning Yale, and the Yardlings nearly three lengths aft of the Orange and Black eight. Both crews ended third.

Princeton Leads Throughout

In the varsity race, the Orange and Black moved out from the start and was never challenged thereafter. Yale, Harvard, and M.I.T. were bunched closely until the first quarter mile, when the Eli eight upped its stroke and came within half a length of Princeton. Even then, it was the Tiger all the way as it crossed the line three-quarters of a length ahead of Yale, timed in a record-setting 6:40.5. M.I.T. finished third, Harvard fourth.

Despite a slight quartering wind, the Yale J.V.s prevented a Princeton sweep as they defeated the Orange and Black by one and a quarter lengths. The Eli shot ahead at the start and continued to pull out, while Princeton and the Crimson seesawed back and forth until the three-quarter marker.

A previously undefeated Crimson freshman shell sagged late in its extended sprint to catch front-running Princeton, to place third, a length and a quarter behind Cornell. Dartmouth was nearly three lengths off the pace.

The Big Red from Cornell gave Princeton its closest scare of the afternoon when its desperate sprint brought it but five feet from the Tiger bow on the finish