Riding in on Cornell's sweep-wash last Saturday doesn't exactly humble Tom Bolles' previously unbeaten Varsity crew. By finishing second on Lake Cayuga--instead of winning their third straight regatta, they merely complicated any attempt to pick the best of the Eastern crews.

None is undefeated. Cornell has now beaten Harvard. Princeton has beaten Cornell. Harvard has beaten Princeton. Columbia and Rutgers have beaten each other. Yale has beaten Columbia. Princeton has beaten Yale.

The Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges, sponsors of the Second Annual Championship Regatta at Princeton next Saturday, tried yesterday to salvage something from this mess when they gave the Crimson, Cornell, and Navy top seeding. (Navy has lost to both Harvard and Yale.) But there will be seven other crews in the 2000-meter sprint on Lake Carnegie and only a couple of them can be counted completely out of the running.

All Even

It appears to Coach Bolles that, with few exceptions, the Eastern crews are of about equal calibre. The equality, at any rate, exists near the top, to which this season's slim light between first and second place sholls act as a mute witness. Even Cornell's slightly more than one length victory last Saturday is close for a two mile distance.

Inconsistent performance can be blamed on the fact that this year's crews, like Bolles', are inexperienced. Unlike pre-war years when a varsity beat would have oarsmen with four years of competition in one crew or another, this spring is only the second big-time season since the enforced layoff.

Bolles, like his contemporaries, may be "building for the future," but, with the season three-fifths gone and two wins and a close second in the books, it appears as if he hasn't over-looked the present.