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Show IW CREWS CLE! OP li NUT DUCES Win Three Events, and Are Disqualified in Another for Fouling. PHILADELPHIA, May ' 31. Annapolis proved. Us superiority over collegiate rivals today in the feature races of the fifteenth annual regatta of the American : Rowing association over the one mile and 55 yards straightaway course of the Schuylkill river. Racing conditions were ideal. Navy crews won three races and were ; disqualified In another. They achieved 1 their greatest success i.i outrowing the Pennsylvania varsity in the first eight-Oared eight-Oared race, the chief event of the day. Syracuse- also was a starter, but never I was a factor. Navy's time was 6:35. Annapolis also out rowed the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania eight In the race for 150-pound crews, the navy finishing in 7:02 4-5, a quarter of a length in the lead. The navy crew captured the junior collegiate col-legiate eight-oared event by more than a length from Princeton, in 6:43' 1-5. Syracuse was third and Pennsylvania fourth. A foul caused the disqualification of the navy in the freshmen eight-oared race, which Syracuse won by three-quarters of a length from Yale, in 6:49. Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania was third. Vesper B. C. crews of this city defeated defeat-ed the Nonpareil of New York in the second senior double and first four scull events. |