West Wins

No one who chanced to step on the soil of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and gaze upon Washington University's eight had any doubt about their winning the 37th annual Poughkeepsie Regatta on the Hudson River. These lads from the West averaged six feet two inches in height and when they pulled their oars the thin sliver of a boat sped through the water with the proverbial speed of greased lightning.

It was but 15.02 minutes after the start at Krum Elbow that the Washingtonian boat reached the other end of the three-mile course, two lengths in front of Wisconsin and three and a half lengths ahead of Cornell. At no time during the race was there the slightest doubt but that the crew from Washington would win.

Victory, decisive and well-earned, was Washington's, but the moral victory certainly belonged to Wisconsin, a green, untried crew, whose boat had not come out on the Hudson since 1914. It was a great victory for the West and a great defeat for the East, which could hardly have been more surprised at seeing green snow than it was at Wisconsin's feat.

The Junior Varsity and Freshman events were both won, to the surprise of everyone, by Pennsylvania.