Monday, Jun. 23, 1941
Who Won
> Harvard's varsity eight, undefeated this season: the Harvard-Yale boat race, oldest (1852) intercollegiate sport event in the U.S.; for the sixth year in a row; by three lengths over a four-mile course; on the Thames at New London, Conn. Earlier in the day, Harvard's junior varsity and freshman crews had outrowed Yale for the fourth straight year.
> Princeton's varsity nine: the Eastern Intercollegiate baseball championship; for the first time; by defeating Yale, 5-to-3, in its final game of the season; before an Alumni Day crowd of 5,000; at University Field, Princeton, N.J. For winning Pitcher Roy Talcott, a sophomore, it was the twelfth consecutive game he had won for Princeton.
> One-eyed, 180-lb. Alfred Diebolt, Colgate junior: the 440-yd. race of New York's Metropolitan A.A.U. track & field championships; in 46.9 sec., fastest quarter-mile in its 50-year history; at Triborough Stadium, New York City. Young Diebolt, son of a onetime Colgate track star, lost his right eye in an auto accident when he was 9.
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