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Show I LOUISIANA CREW WINS HER SEVENTH TROPHY f Fourteen Thousand People Witness Wit-ness Races Between Navy .Sailors." LOS ANGELES, April 21. Amid cheers and Hag waving of over li.ouo swanhlncr along the piers at San Pedro, tho picked crew of the Louisiana's champion cham-pion cutter tender today carried off the $300 silver cup offered for the winner of the twcnly-slx-oared battleship cutter cut-ter race of 0110 and one-half miles. Cutlers from the Louisiana. Connecticut. Connecti-cut. Knnxiis ami Vermont took part in tho race, but It belonged to the Louisiana from the start. The Connecticut, wbl- h llnlshcd second, showed- lack of laieful , training. The Kansas, which linlsbed I third, started well, but soon begun lo clinp and miss strokes. The Vi'mioiit'-ra I finished 200 yards behind the Kansas. I The boats use wore large and heavy, being built for- tblrly-sl.v men. The Louisiana's cutter was the largest ami heaviest of the four, but despite this the race was won by twelvo lengths. The winning' of t tils trophy today brings 1 he number of cups won by the Louisiana's crew up lo seven. |