Sport: Hudson Hurly-Burly

For confusion, Hellzapoppin had to play second fiddle to what happened 70 miles farther up the Hudson last week. There, off Poughkeepsie—under murky skies and over wind-whipped whitecaps—America's top-notch college crews (except Harvard and Yale) met in the 43rd annual Intercollegiate Regatta.

The freshman two-mile curtain raiser, scheduled for 3 o'clock, went off in routine fashion: Cornell defeated its three rivals.

An hour later, when six junior varsity eights lined up for their three-mile race, a stiff head wind had become considerably stiffer. Before the shells had traveled 200 yards, coxswains were busy bailing. Presently the Washington boatload began slowly to sink like...

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