The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-23
THE UNIVERSITY RACE.


Harvard VS.. H0le-taie tne Wtnuers
WORCESTER, Mass, July 22.-At 513 the Uni
yersity crews were summoned to appear and
meet again in the annual contest for the cham
pionship. Again delay, tedious and unpleasant
but relieved at length by the appearance of the
superb-looking Harvard crew. Cheers greeted
them. loud and long. For, be it known, Wor-
cester crowds on regatta day are all well red,
and their sympathies and wishes are never for
n moment doubtful or kept quiet.
Then appeared the Yale crew, and certainly
n fuer-looking or better crew, so far as out
siders could judge, has seldom come upon
waters like Quinsigamond-I mean as regards
their style and appearance, not as regards their
strength. The Yale men were all bare as to
their frames while the HarYards clothed their
nakedness with white shirts The start was
frst-rate, both crews dropping their oars at the
same moment Yale, with her usual luck, hav-
ing won the outside position, they started off,
pulling about the same number of strokes
forty-four- rand keeping close together.
AS they passed Regatta Point they were
greeted with all the noise that brass and drum,
powerfully reinforced by thousands of pairs of
lungs could make; while the ladies waved
handkerchiefs and shouted to themselves for
very joy. On sped the boats, the same steady,
sturdy, determined rowing, and neither pistol
shot from the other. When the boats had
reached the mile stake it seen that their
course was taking them right into the shore.
Harvard perceived her mistake early and bet
tered her condition; but Yale kept steadily on,
SO that when her course was changed she lost
fully ten seconds. Harvard thus took the lead,
and turned the stake first.
The boats then passed well nigh out of sight
from the judges boat. That Yale was doing
nobly all felt; and Yale stock began to rise
above par. And its rise rivalled that of gold in
war times, when, on the temperance of the
boats, Yale was seen in the van, Harvard close
in to the west shore; still the same steady
stroke, about thrty-eight to the minute. Then
came loud cheers, filling the air with enthusias-
tic shouts for yale! Yale!" and amid cries of
har Rul1
Yale shot across the line, and for the first time
in five years the Blue came in ahead of the
Magenta.
The Harvard crew followed in twenty minutes
and thirty seconds, but as was seen, minus the
important instrument known as rudder. Not
to be behind the precedents of the afternoon
she at once put in q claim of foul. Yale had
crossed her bows and run into her. So the Yale
crew were called up and allowed to state plainly
their side of the question. This was that the
Harvard crew, in turning the stake, carried
away the flag and broke their rudder on the
take. They (Yale) also ran on to the
take, and the crash of their boat striking
the lstake and Harvard's breaking her
deceived in belief that Yale had run into them.
So another question was referred to the judges
and the referee, whose decision has not vet
been made. 1t was curious to notice how little
enthusiasm was manifested AT Yale's success;
while if the Red but crosses the line first,
poems and songs of thanksgiving rend the air.
However, the decision may be given to the Yale
crew with but few words of encouragement to
urge them on. They have done their work
nobly, and Yale men tonight are happy and
jolly set of fellows.