Evening star., 1941-06-26
Keepsie Boat Race
Is Only Breeze for
Huskies, Bears
Winning Boot Held Best
Ever From Washington;
Cornell Frosh Score
BY SID FEEDER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.


POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June 26
1t probably comes as no surprise
to you to learn that, for competitive
thrills, the annual intercollegiate
regatta packs about as much punch
these days as target practice at the
Empire State Building with over
ripe tomatoes as ammunition.
With rowing as major industry
Of the Far West, probably second
only to making movies, it's getting SO
you know beforehand it'll be either
Washington or California in a
breeze. And when the Huskies of
Washington rowed off and hid from
the others along about dusk last
evening, it was about as astonishing
as finding knife, fork and spoon
at your place when you sit down to
dinner
1t was such a soft touch, you
wondered If Washington and Cali
fornia, who chased the Huskies
home, had any other reason for
coming than to train lot of young
fellows how to keep their waist
lines down.
Cornell Gets East's Lone Win.
OF course, the big guys who win
have the fun every year of dunking
their little winning coxswain into
the Hudson. Vic Fomo got it yester-
day for 'coxing" his third winning
Husky crew. He did it two years
ago with his freshman outfit, last
year with the jayvee boatload, and
this year with varsity that won by
three lengths and looked as if it
could have come in by 13.
With California bouncing in with
the junior varsity affair this year,
the EastS only consolation was Cor
nells triumph in the freshman two
miles. And this was accomplished
probably only because the Huskies
and the Bears didn't bring freshmen
boatloads with them.
This was a pretty fair country
crew swinging down the river for
Washington in the varsity affair.
Even Coach Al Ulbrickson, who has
had more than one better -than-bad
boatload, said it's "as great a crew
as I ever had"
Better Than Olympian Crew.
"You may not know it," he said,
but they've rowed lots faster than
my Olympic winning crew of SO.
sent this years eight over the
2000-meter Olympic distance back
in April and clocked 'em in four
seconds faster time than the Olym-
pic outfits world record"
That's how they looked over the
4-mile Derby route" yesterday, too.
For a time they let California and
Cornell keep up, just to make it in
teresting. Then Stroke Ted Gar
hart opened up a 36-beat and the
Huskies left the others like an ex-
press going away from slow freight.
At the finish the Huskies were
more excited about what was COM
ing up for dinner than they were
about the win. They rowed over to
the sun-steaming judges boat and
only wanted to know what their
time was. Just for the record, it
was 18 minutes 533 seconds.
Vests Eighth Win in Nine Years.
Back of the two Far Western craft
came, in order, Cornell, Syracuse,
Princeton, Wisconsin, Rutgers, Mas
sachusetts Tech and hard luck Co.
lumbia, whose No. 2 man, Gene
Remmer, suffered a cramp at about
the halfway mark.
For the ho-hum department, the
Washington win marked the eighth
time in nine years the Pacific pullers
have hit the Poughkeepsie jackpot
The only year they missed in that
stretch-1938-Navy came in. The
sailors have to show who's boss on
the water once in a while.