Revenge at Oakland

A year ago on windy Lake Washington, the California crew that later won the Poughkeepsie Regatta and the Olympic Championship, won its first race of the season. The other boat was Washington's. Hopelessly outclassed from the start, rigged too low for the choppy water, with seat tracks awash after the first mile, it trailed in 18 lengths behind.

That was a record beating for a West Coast crew. What happened on the Oakland Estuary last week, with 50,000 people watching the regatta, was a record revenge. Washington's freshmen won their race by three lengths. Then the junior varsity, four feet behind when 50 yd. from the finish, shot a length ahead to win as George Beinhorn, California's bow, lost his oar.

A slight breeze was behind the boats at the start of the varsity race. Washington, pulling at 40 strokes a minute to California's 43, was a few feet ahead after 50 yd., a half-length at the half-mile, three lengths at the halfway mark, where both crews were stroking evenly in the low thirties, a mile and a half from the finish. Hopelessly outclassed, without even waterlogged seats for an alibi, California's crew pulled bravely on at a stroke that went up to 42 in the last half-mile. At the roaring, whistling finish, they were seven lengths behind.

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