Last Respects

Because the Thames at New London is wanted for other purposes, the Harvard-Yale crew races were held last week over Yale's home course on the Housatonic. There were no observation trains, no flotilla of yachts, no high jinks on the banks. But old grads turned out, a few thousand strong, to pay what may be their last respects (for the duration.) to the oldest and once the gayest intercollegiate sport event in the U.S.*

It was a blue day, but not Yale's color. With monotonous regularity, first their freshman, then their junior varsity, then their combination (freshman and varsity subs), and finally their varsity oarsmen were trounced--each by three lengths or more. For the fifth year in a row Harvard made a clean sweep. For the seventh year in a row. Harvard's varsity made Yale's look like a jerkwater crew.

While Harvardmen cheered young Tom Bolles (rhymes with goals), whose Crimson shells have won 31 out of 34 varsity races in the six years he has coached at Cambridge, Yalemen bemoaned the fact that after 20 years as varsity coach, Ed Leader will step down to become advisory coach for Eli intramural rowing.

Yale is expected to abandon intercollegiate rowing for the duration.

*Intercollegiate rowing's other grand finale, the Poughkeepsie Regatta, was canceled altogether his year.

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