Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-07
WI Bows by 2I2Lengths
In SemifinaIs at HenIey
Bank Club Crew
Wipes Out Lost
American Hope

HENLEY, England; July Z
(AP).-Washington-Lee High
School of Arlington, Va, Amer
ica's last hope, was defeated
in Henley's Royal Regatta to-
day.
The American high school
champions lost by 21a lengths
to Britain's National Provin-
cial Bank Club in the semi
finals of the Thames Chal-
lenge Cup.
The young American crew,
with an average age of IT,
made little impression on the
British crew, trailing from
start to finish.
Westinghouse was the only
American squad to reach the
final day of the four-day re-
gatta.
The American boys were half
a length down after a quarter
of a mile and 312 lengths in
arrears midway over the 1-mile
550-yard River Thames course.
WI Staged Squirt
They put in a squirt raising
their rate of strokes to 38 a
minute. At the mile, they had
reduced their deficit to 212
lengths but were unable to
close it further.
The British club, which broke
Harvard's old record for the
Thames Cup earlier in the re-
gatta, went into this after
moons final against the Thames
Rowing Club of Britain as a
red-hot favorite.
The Britons were clicked
against Westinghouse in
6:54.
Charley Butt, Washington
Lee coach, followed the race by
bicycle, shouting encourage
ment to his lads from the tow
path.
Needed Ghosts
John Jenkins of the Wash
ington-Lee crew said: I'VE
could have used our two tame
ghosts today-to give us little
extra manpower."
The crew is staying in a
haunted 400-year-old cottage
at Henley which boasts a cou-
pie of phantoms.
The benign spirits are said
to be those of Prince Cupert of
the Rhine and his mistress who
spent many happy years at the
house when it was a hunting
lodge in the 1600s.
None of us has seen them
yet" said Coxswain Mike ONO
hundro. but our landlady says
she has several times"
The Bank crews timekeeper,
Mike Carese, said his eight had
kept nothing in reserve in the
race against Washington-Lee.
Every time we go out on the
river We aim to beat the
record" he said.
Meanwhile, Joe Burk, one Of
Americas top rowing coaches
thinks drastic changes must be
made if the United States is
to regain the former suprem-
acy in the sport.
Il feel we might have to
change the distance of our
races in the States" said Burk,
coach of the University of
Pennsylvania eight, which yes
terday joined a trial of beaten
American crews.
"At the moment we row over
three miles, two miles, one and
three-quarter miles and 1000
meters" Burk said.
IT think it would help if we
always rowed over the Euro
pean distance of 1000 meters.
This would get us better used
to the techniques needed here"
Burk, who twice won the
Diamond Souls here before
World War II, said it was "a
worrying outlook" for Ameri-
can rowing.
Big names are associated
with the United States record
of failure at this regatta-Yale,
Penn, NIT, Phillips Academy
and the Detroit Boat Club.
Poland Quits Regatta
Yesterdays racing was per-
hapS the most acrimonious in
the regatta's history. Poland
walked out after it's top sculler,
Eugeniusz Kubiak, was disqual-
flied in a semifinal of the Dia-
mond Souls against Australian
Stuart Mackenzie, the defend
ing champion.
The Russian camp for a long
time considered pulling out too.
A phone call was made to Mos
COW, after which the Russians
decided to stay in.
But a spokesman of the So
Wet crew said that Boris Du-
brovsiy would have been
scratched from the final of the
Diamonds if he had won his
semifinal heat against Britaln's
Bill Barry. Barry won by four