Crimson Sweeps Six Crew Races, Beating Navy, Syracuse, M.I.T., B.U.

The Crimson blades flashed to triumph in all six races on the Charles Saturday, as they easily defeated Syracuse, Navy, M.I.T., and Boston University during the day's events.

The heavyweight varsity crew, rowing the last race of the day in order to take advantage of falling wind, finished a length and three-quarters in front of a hard-rowing Syracuse boat. Even further behind were M.I.T. and B.U., in that order.

In the varsity lightweight race the Crimson crew had little trouble finishing a length in front of Navy, with M.I.T. third, to win the Haines Trophy. The time for the race over the mile and five-sixteenths course was 6:59.6. Last week, against M.I.T. alone, the varsity rowed the course under rougher conditions in 7:24.0.

In the other lightweight races the J.V.'s were an easy four lengths faster than Navy and M.I.T. The Freshmen took a six length victory from M.I.T. in the only dual meet of the afternoon. Time for the J.V.'s was 7:03.4, and for the Freshmen, 7:31.6.

During the mile and three-quarter heavyweight races the varsity was pushed hard by M.I.T. for the first half mile. Rowing at the very high cadence of 38 strokes per minute the Tech crew held a slight lead over the varsity, rowing at 34. But the Crimson slowly pulled ahead of the tiring Tech oarsmen and led by a length after three-quarters of a mile.

The varsity settled down to a strong 32 stroke cadence for the rest of the race as Syracuse and M.I.T. battled for the second position. In the last stretch the Crimson sprinted at 38 to hold off Syracuse's closing bid.

Rowing into a slight headwind over good, but not the best, water, the Crimson crew turned in the time of 9:01.0. Syracuse covered the course in 9:08.5, three lengths ahead of M.I.T.'s 9:21.0. B.U. was another three and a half lengths back, finishing in 9:26.5.

The J.V. race was the only one in which the Crimson was pushed hard. The Junior Varsity finished only one second ahead of a fast closing Syracuse squad. The deck length victory was in 7:16.5.

Despite damage done to their best shell by a rock thrown from the shore, the Freshmen borrowed another boat and gained an easy victory over their three opponents. Never pressed after the first half mile, they rowed at a low stroke, between 29 1/2 and 30 1/2. Syracuse, behind by about two and a half lengths, began to make a bid to overtake the Crimson with three-quarters of a mile to go, but fell further back when one of the oarsmen caught a crab.

The Crimson time was 9:20.0, while Syracuse finished 20 seconds slower. M.I.T. and B.U. offered even less competition.

In races at Dartmouth, a Crimson combination third varsity and Freshman boat defeated the Green J.V.'s, while the third and fourth Freshman shells beat Dartmouth's Freshman squad