The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-18
By wEsTBROOK PEGLER (Leased Wire To The Age Herald


 POUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y., June IT Held to their work by belligerent red-haired midget, who hollered a cheer ful line of invective through horn eight beefy young men walked three miles down the ruffled bosom of the Hudson river Tuesday afternoon, win ming the intercollegiate eight-oar row. ing championship again for the Univer. sity of Washington.
 They finished two lengths in front of the University of Wisconsin and the foremost of the eastern crews was Cor. nell, which came splashing over the line third.
 Pennsylvania Comes Fourth
 Pennsylvania boat, her blue and red-tipped blades scuffing sprays of water in weakening stroke, slid across the theoretical line which marks the finish in fourth place, although it had been expected that Washington and Pennsylvania would fight for the championship with the rest of the boats trailing away toward the rear in q struggle to avoid the ignominy of fin ishing last. Syracuse university, after a long, game pursuit, overlook and passed Columbia in the last half of the ordeal and took fifth position, so the blue and white spoons of the Columbia ship floundered to the end in the sixth and last place with three of the eight men crumpled on the floor of the shell, whipped and exhausted
 Excitement Follows
 As the race ended, the waddling old side-wheelers which had held ranks near the finish, broke from their for nation and padded excitedly about the river, believing with their sirens and waving thousand pennants from their halyards. The great crowd which had formed ribbons of color on the plat forms of the flat cars, which made up the observation train, came pouring down the ladder and rushed to the river bank cheering the Washington men.
 There were only a few to cheer for the panting young men in the second boat, because Wisconsin, had been out of the intercollegiate for ten years and was thought to have sent, an inexperi- enced crew to this race to start a grad ual renewal of her old position on the ripples. Therefore when Wisconsin, after rowing back in fourth position for more than a mile, irresistibly moved up and passed Cornell and Pennsyl- vania, there were few on hand who had a real sentimental appreciation of the victory.
 Time Slow Washington's time was nothing to boast of, and there were critical east erners along the river bank, who wished to record their opinion that the Yale crew which probably will go to France as America's Olympic crew, could have rowed coal barge to victory against the field.
 The record for the course is 13 min utes B 3-5 seconds, established in 1922 by the navy crew, the same crew that Yale defeated last week son the Schuyl- kill at Philadelphia in whining the right to represent America on sthe lagoon in the Olympic ganles., F
 Finish Close
 Washington, winning with narrow space of open water between her stern and Wisconsin's bow, took 15 minutes and 2 seconds for three miles and lit- tie Don Grant, the coxswain of the west ern -scow, said after the race that his shipmates didn't have anything left for a fight after the two-mile mark.
 Grant is the captain as we'll as the navigator of the Washington shell, a rare office for the diminutiye vocalist who sits in the stern and entertains the oarsmen as a rule by telling them that he holds them. in low esteem and devoutly hopes that none of his friends are on the bank to see him in such dis