Crew races cost more, earn less than most college sports. Day after the Cornell Athletic Association had decided not to support a crew next spring, stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association voted to cancel the Poughkeepsie Regatta which has been rowed on the Hudson every spring except three since 1895. Last year, the regatta cost California, Columbia, Cornell, M. I. T., Navy, Penn, Syracuse and Washington an average of $5,000 each. The stewards resolved "that the annual regatta at the usual distances [four miles] be resumed in 1934."
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