The New York herald., 1874-07-16

| friends stood manfully by them. The weather was
| again clear and warm; there was no wind and
| the lake was calm and quiet. The banks were
alive with spectators, and the friends OF Yale mus
tered In notably greater numbers by far than we're
ever known before. For the first minute after the
word the two boats stayed well together, but when
on the grand stand some 800 feet up the shore,
Yale spurted and drew away from her antagonist
until shortly she was clear. No time was wasted
by either In getting to the stake. Yale rounded
well ahead ana somewhat increased her lead
down the homestretch, coming in an easy winner,
beating her opponent by over 100 yards. Worces-
ter has seen many q wild night, but few, and
especially OF the wearefs OF the blue, will quickly
forget the roar and din that far into that Friday
for this Thursday business Is an innovation Of very
recent date-made the Old town howl while out
OF sight, and mind, In farmer Prenrss' house,
away or by the lake, sat six sad mortals, gloomy
and detected.
fHR TIDE TURNED.
Twice now had the proud old red nag of Harvard
TO come down. Twice in series OF college
gattas which had helped much to keep her name
1avorably before the public had she come to know
deieat-a new and painful knowledge, one she be-
ueved In in the abstract; but when race day came
around-well, sne would like to wal. year.
However something must be done. crew was
got together and set at WORK, though there
was no terrible eagerness to join it, New rowing
boats we're built and used somewhat. few OF
the men did fair winters work and when they
got their boat down In the spring managed to get
fair pace on her. They worked along, learning
what they could OF tho enemy, doing whatever
they thought would help them make good race
though TO win-so long was 1t since they had
known what that word meant-seemed impos-
sible. The time drew near The men OF Yale
were coming up hilarious and triumphant
and In unprecedented numbers to see their favor
ties score third victory. Why' Well, she had won
the last two years ana Of course would this. Hav
ing different crew, that made no difference; she
was sure TO win. Betting was all her way. In
deed, to md q man anywhere about wearing red
ribbon was o task. They had all stayed at home.
Again Yale had the heavier crew and the lighter
boat, and as she shot out from under the little
causeway and drew up to the line 1t seemed as IL
every male in Worcester county was Yale man,
80 tumultuous was the welcome. Six almost sui
len looking fellows from Harvard soon showed
alongside, and as the two boats took their posi-
tions the rain, which had been waiting for them,
began to fall. They swung steadily away, Har-
ward, perhaps, having little the best or it
at the send-on. At the grand stand 1t
was apparently an even thing, and all the
betting was one way-$3o0o to 500 on Yale
finding no takers So they swung or up the lake,
away beyond the point and ouy of sight. Ten min
utes OF suspense, and something is coming down.
1t Is q crew ahead easily OF another; but which
was which Somebody called out Harvard, and
then the way one Elihu Yale was invoked 1or the
next few minutes was cautlonj but, like Mr..
Baal Of old, he did not respond worth q cent. His
children came gradually home, the gap between
them and the front boat being about 400 feet,
and the nags went back to Cambridge to an acove
clA nv fha vvov IN efnu
broOms In.
fHs STRUGGLE OF 1861
Now IT was Ysles turn to work, and, looking q
whole year ahead, she went at 1t right manfuly.
BY greatly superior strength with wretched
stroke, she had beaten in 1865 but the mex: year,
when In size and weight her rivals were about q
match, the detects Of the stroke stood out giar-
ingiy. And yet, in all the work OF preparing for
the CONFLICT OF 1857 when II possible, she must win
back the lost coors, she seemed to see no need OF
any change OF stroke Relying on the fact that all
but one Of the winning Harvard crew Of 1865 had
graduated, instead ofworking. as many men would
| have done in like case, and leaving stone un-
turned she took things modera teiy and when the
! years work was done and the last practice pull
finished, and the crew in racing costume came out
and took their position, two light men
sat in the bow, almost too light for
! the wear and tear OF three long, hot
miles, and the enemy were four pounds heavier
per man. Still. weight Is not the only element Of
victory. So Harvard thought, too, and she seemed
to think 1t so long before that she deemed 1t es-
sent,al to take that weight and work 1t, and she
did 1t faithfully and sensibly, and now when she
comes alongside unsparing praise awaits her,
where the year before no man knew or cared for
| her till the race was over. Robert M. CLARK, OF
| Boston, perhaps the fastest gentleman scuer
America ever saw, stood on as referee. The day
broke squally, and tful dashes OF rain made good
water dubious. But suddenly, just in the nick Of
time, the wind lulled the waves dropped and the
two crews got away, both going fast. Harvard
already began to have the best of In her stern
sat one Of the most remarkable oarsmen that Har-
ward ever knew Never powerful man,
when in his best condition he could 60
like greyhound. But he was capricious,
and this would, to the dismay OF his friends,
crop out at just the uglest Of all moments
| those right before a race-and his poor crew
would have to lug him where often he, in other
moods, would have been doing more than his six tn.
One OF the first freshmen, II not the very 1rst that
Harvard ever let sit In university crew, and that
in 1885, now he was rowing stroke, and so he was
the next year, and in 1859 went out to Europe
stroke and captain OF the most famous amateur
four-oared this country, II not any other,
saw. This time he was all night, and all the way up
that lake, under the welcome shade Of Old Wigwam,
and on, on to the stake, he and his crew walked
away from their antagonists already tired and
faint struggling along with stroke lacking reach,
lacking length, lacking vim through the water,
indeed almost everything that is sure to be found
In the stroke which knows how to win. Harvard
Is around and OF before her rivals even get to the
stake, and so she goes away down the lake,
widening the gap every second. She pulls every
stroke; she pulls until, swinging in across the
line, she completes the distance in Ism. l21s the
FASTEST AMATEUR TINE
then on record. And where is her rival ? whole
minute and eleven seconds behind, a matter o
twenty-five boat lengths, 1000 feet, more OF
less Now at last both crews had crafts worthy o
the name OF raceboats. Hickey had built Yale's