Crews

On Lake Washington. University of California oarsmen, Olympic rowing champions of 1928 and 1932, owe much to their bitterest rivals at the University of Washington. California's Coach Carroll ("Ky") Ebright was Washington coxswain in 1916-17. California's cedar shells--like those of almost every other college crew in the U. S.--are made by bespectacled George Pocock in his little workshop on the Washington campus. Last fortnight the seasoned California oarsmen who won the Poughkeepsie regatta last year launched a new Pocock shell called the California Clipper, set out to prove the boast of Coach Ebright, who called them "slightly better" than the crews who twice before proved the world's best.

At Seattle last week, Washington's oarsmen exacted part payment of the California debt. With a brisk wind blowing on their faces, Washington varsity, junior varsity and freshmen whipped down Lake Washington ahead of the Californians in record time for each event, made their eighth clean sweep of the West Coast's major crew race.

On The Severn, at Annapolis, a cold raw wind postponed the Navy v. Columbia race until dusk. Columbia, which once turned out the best crews in the East, had not won a major race for four years. This season's boat looked hopeless. Behind a new stroke named Shimp were six sophomores, none older than 19. The No. 5 oar, Bernius, had never been in a shell before last month.

When Navy's plebes and Columbia's junior varsity had split the first two events on the program, the varsity boats pulled up to the start. Columbia's unpromising oarsmen neglected to remove their sweaters, rowed a slower beat than Navy, sent their bow sparkling across the finish line first, a full length ahead, for the first-time since 1931.

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