Rowing

Navy V. Columbia-- On Manhattan's Harlem River, glazed with iridescent oil spots but for once free of driftwood, two crews sprinted away from a flagged line, heading downstream on the crest of a fast tide. In their hearts the hometown rooters had little faith that the Blue & White shell, containing three sophomores who had never been in a varsity race, could do much to the big Navy boatload. Over the smooth water to high bridge the boats kept abreast, but at the bridge MacRae Sykes, sharp-faced stroke, put the beat up. In a few strokes open water showed at the Columbia stern and Navy could not close it even in the last few hundred yards with the traditional Navy sprint. Columbia's time was 6 min. 4 1/2 sec., Navy's 6 min. 11 sec.--about a length and one-third.

Harvard v. Kent, No preparatory school in the U. S. does so well at rowing as Kent, where the boys have to sweep out the school buildings and make their beds before rowing practice, and where the rowing coach wears a skirt. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, Kent Headmaster, is the rowing coach; he wears his skirt because he is a member of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross (TIME, March 23). Every year his first and second crews start their season with a race against the first and second Harvard 150-lb. shells. Last week Father Sill got in the launch with Sullivan, the Harvard coach, and trailed the crews along the Housatonic. Kent's first crew got away to a slight lead at the start. At three-quarters of a mile it still had a lead but Harvard had begun to sprint dangerously. At the finish Kent had beaten off the sprint and was tiring fast; the Harvard lightweights had cut the lead down to one-third of a length, but that third of a length, and victory, were Kent's. The Kent second crew also won.

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