Sport: From Puget Sound

Washington led a rowing revolution at Poughkeepsie by winning for the West its first intercollegiate regatta. The shell from Puget Sound broke Navy’s two-year hold on the Poughkeepsie cup by a length and a half. Columbia, Syracuse, Cornell, Pennsylvania finished in order. Syracuse won the Junior varsity and the Cornell Freshmen were awarded the narrowest of decisions over Washington after a virtual dead heat.

Most of the rainy evening’s honor fell upon Donald Walling, stroke of the Western shell. Three days before the race he was in bed under a doctor’s care for three boils, infected, on his knee. He stepped into the shell with a puffy leg and sat down on his slide to row one of the great races of intercollegiate history. When the shell returned to the float, he was lifted out and taken to a hospital.