Evening star., 1947-06-22
fasteners End
Vests 5 Reign in
Regatta Revival
Middies BureIy Hold
To Leod at Finish;
Washington Third
BY Ted Smits
Associated Press Sports Writer

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June
21.-Navy's big crew barely beat
off a desperate challenge by Cornell
today to win the 45th Poughkeepsie
Regatta, revived in all its glory
after a wartime lapse of six years.
Together, the two Eastern eights
ended Western domination of the
race. Washington, winner the last
time the regatta was held in 1941,
was third, good length behind
Cornell. California was fourth,
three-quarters of length behind
the Huskies.
Cornell drew up on Navy at the
finish with a powerful, steady 36
that forced Navy up to an almost
incredible AZ.
Slow Winning Time.
The winning time was 1882, far
slower despite almost perfect con-
ditions than the record set by Navy
for three miles in 1922-13:33.6.
Not since 1888 has an Eastern
crew won here, and it was Navy
then that did it.
When Washington's freshmen
won the opening two-mile race. and
CALIFORNIA; junior varsity doml-
mated its 3-mile field, it appeared
that the West again would sweep
the river. But Coach Buck Walshs
eight, averaging 1870 pounds and
six feet two inches, was rr't to be
denied. Stroked by john Cart
wright, 194-pound, six-foot four
inch sophomer, the Middies rowed a
powerful race and beat laying back
ait the start and taking the lead
half way along.
The II crews in the varsity race,
the largest field by two ever to COM
pete here, finished in this order:
l. Navy, 1882; q. Cornell,
14:O0.4; 8. Washington, 14:07.5; 4.
California, 14:09.6; 5. Princeton.
14:15.8; 6. Syracuse, 14:1S5; 7. Wis
consin, 14:254; 8. NIT, 14:26.8; 9.
Penn, 1929; 10. Rutgers, 14:4l.5;
II. Columbia, 14:44.
Favorites, Don't Disappoint.
Navy, Cornell, Washington and
California ran true to form to domi-
nate the race They were the fav-
orites, and they did not disappoint.
California, working smoothly, led
for the first mile. 1t was in the No.
lane, close to the palisaded west
bank. Then the crews in the middle
of the river began to move ahead.
Princeton came forward along with
the Big -Four, and finished credit
able four lengths behind the win.
ner.
The varsity race started only a
few minutes before o'clock, when
the tide was running out strongly.
Cornell in lane 8, Navy in 10 and
Princeton in II were the crews far
thest in the center of the river.
! Charles Won Wrangell, 183-pound
junior, stroked Coach Stork San
ford's surprising Cornell boat. The
Big Red had a spotty season, but
by finishing ahead of the two West
ern giants today it won all the glory
possible Navy, too, had not looked
too impressive before Poughkeeps1e,
having lost to both Yale and Har-
ward.
Navy's victory in the varsity race
was it's sixth in the history OF the
regatta, which goes back to 1895.
California's great Junior varsity
crew, actually composed OF five
members of its freshman eight plus
three upper classmen and stroked
by Ian Turner, 176-pound yearling,
made a walkaway of the Jayvee
race. Holding to a slow 81 stroke,
California had plenty of open water
over Navy even by the half-mile
mark.
The overcast skies cleared magi-
cally and the rough surface of the
river Gained just before the fresh
man race started.
Syracuse Immediately took the
lead and by the half-mile mark the
shell that Coach Ned Ten Eyck
called rough and tough" had
nearly a lengths lead over WASH
ington.
In the home stretch Warren
Westlund, the 6-foot 3-inch WASH
ington stroke, pulled the beat UP
to 38 and brought the shef across
the finish a winner by clean
lapoth