Henley

Kent is known among U. S. preparatory school boys as a place where you have to make your own bed and where the headmaster is a bug on rowing. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, the headmaster, was coxswain of the Columbia crew in 1895. Ten boatloads of Kent boys row every spring afternoon on the Housatonic River. In 1927, and again this year, Father Sill took his best oars to England.

At Princeton University, the 150-lb. crews are coached by Gordon G. Sikes, a brainy, mighty-shouldered little man on crutches, coxswain of the 1916 Princeton varsity. Many a Princeton man will tell you Gordon Sikes is a better judge of rowing than Head Coach Charles ("Chuck") Logg. Coach Sikes took his 150-pounders to the Henley this year. They met Kent in the quarterfinal.

The day of the race. Father Sill suggested Princeton's age and experience might well win for them. But Sikes knew his men were several pounds lighter per man than the big Kent boys. When the shells were a half-mile from the finish he grinned: "Here's where we see whether Kent's weight will tell on us." Kent won by half a length.

Livingston, the 17-year-old Kent stroke, collapsed after the Princeton race. They had to carry him into the hotel. Next day Kent finished a half-length behind Worcester College, Oxford, whom they had been figured to beat easily. Kent's assistant Coach Colmore, captain-elect of next year's Princeton varsity, said: "My oarsmen were tired out before they started." But so had they tired the Worcester crew that Worcester lost the final and the Thames Challenge Cup to the Vesta Boat Club by a whole length.

Winner of the Diamond (single) sculls: Jack Guest of Canada, six lengths over G. Boetzelen of Germany.

Winner of the Grand Challenge Cup: the London Rowing Club, a length and a half ahead of the Leanders.

Winner of the Ladies' Challenge Plate: Lady Margaret College, Oxford, defeating Pembroke College, Cambridge.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.