Up the Creek

Fine Harvard crews seem as dependable these days as final exams in June. This year Tom Bolles has manufactured--with the aid of some extraordinary oarsmen--two boats which have swept every regatta with little trouble. In the course of the season, the Crimson has beaten every major college in the East and has left no doubts as to its pre-eminence.

For all of this, Bolles, Strong and Co. are to be congratulated. They stand an excellent chance of defeating Yale over the four-mile course at New London and thus finish the year undefeated. But even if they do this, they will not have met the toughest competition available: the fine western crews which will make their only east-coast appearance at Poughkeepsie the day after the Yale regatta.

Every time Harvard has had a good crew the question of the Poughkeepsie regatta has come up--always with the same answer: the HAA and its Yale counterpart have been unable to schedule the New London race so that the two crews can row at Poughkeepsie too. There are undeniable obstacles: the date of the race falls between the commencement exercises of the two schools, and the timing of exams and training for the regatta have made entrance in the Hudson affair impossible, as far as the respective booking agencies were concerned. But surely some solution can be worked out to leave time for both races. Perhaps the idea of rowing Yale after commencement could be dropped. Any one of several solutions might do the trick.

At any rate, it's worth some thought. It would be interesting to see how a good Harvard crew stacks up against the highly-boosted boys from out West.