The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-06-04
THE YALE-HARVARD RACE.
pegpARING ron THE GREAT STR 70
sIEO ON THE 3OTH OF JUNE.

.Ls0N THE 3OTH OF JUNE
Ar.. R,v.I Crews, the Boats and the Course
-IIew the Men Practise and Train The
E,sItsh nd American strokes to be Tested |
incidents Of Rowins During the winter
The eight cared race between Harvard
and Yale will be one OF tho events Of the row
ing season, and Its probable result Ia being ca
gerry canvassed In colleges and boating Circles
For over twenty-five years Harvard and yale
have yearly entered against each other. Even IN
the recent contests Of tho Rowing Association
of American Colleges, the principal purpose OF
the one wa. to vanouish the other. As Yale
has withdrawn from the association, and Hsr-
ward will, after this summer, their annual con-
tests together In the future will bear something
of the same relation to each other In this coun-
trv IA do tho famous oxford c ambridgs races In
England.
The nrst college race ever Iowed In this coun-
try was on Lake winnepiseoRs. Aug. 3, 1852, In
eight cared barges over q two-mils course,
Harvard beating Yale two lengths The next
contest was July q, IS, when Harvards eight
cared barge beat Yale six, the latter being al
lowed time. The was on the Springfield
river. course three miles with turn. Ihere
was no other race until July 20, 30, when Har-
ward again triumphed on Lake Quinsisamond.
The race was rowed in six-oared shells, course
three miles and turn. Harvard's time, ~
minutes IS seconds Brown College was In TINS
race. but was hopeiessly defeated, coming In
elk minutes after Yale, which was minute M-
Ger Harvard. The next day In the citizens re-
vatta. same course and crews, Yale beat Harvard
Two seconds. Yaie's time being 10 minutes IA
seconds. Up this year tho crews were made
up from different classes on both sides, pulling
iu barges, Iapstfeak shells, and other hvbrl Q,
but In 80 and afsrward there were regular uni.
versity shell races. There were also freshmen
and sophomore races. In 1860. same course.
Harvard WAS again victorious. Time. IS minutes
b seconds Yale. 1895 Brown. 2i:ib. The war
broke up the contests for several years.
RECENT RACES.
In 1894 the contests were resumed, and con-
1nued on Lake Quinssamond till 1870, the
pourss each year being three miles with a turn.
Up to this year Yale bad won only one out
,pf i've, and two out Of seven, throwing In the
Freshmen and sophomore races OF 1850. In 1884
She assembled thousands saw the blue colors OF
Yale waving in advance at the finish. Time 10
min. / sec; Harvard, ls.t3H. In 1885 Yale was
Again victorious-time 17:ish Harvard. 1900:
Garvard scored uninterrupted victories, her hest
Ainie being lT:tsh In 1853. The race was given TO
atynrd In $50 on claim Of lac fsI, tho ri c ave
DISC rowed with the famous Ward brother
fhe Wards time was f140f: Harvard. I;52N.
Ourins sll these years there was n gradual i'm
Pruvement In the time made as well AS In the
fnish 81 the ,n he and equipments: Alt,ho9sn
university races, Yale hid some slight satisfac-
tion In beating Harvard four times ont OF seven
IN the Freshmen aud other MINOR races In the
bame period. In 1871 the Row ing Association Of
AmeI.can Colleges was formed. Except In 1873,
&hc Yale was the victor. other colleges carried
81 the coveted lsurels.
The next race between Yale and Harvard lie to
De rowsd In eight-Oared shells, over a four mile
snurse straightaway on the Springfield river, on
FRIDAY, June ~. at4 2. VI. The course will prob.
begin somewhere near Yae's old quarters In 70
finishing near Amherst's quarters. Owing to the
bend in the river, there Is considerable adyan-
1ase 10 be derived from the CHI lie Of position
sThe rules req tire esch boat TO keep Its own WA
Llng Tor the dek rees Of A. Is. or Pb. Is. who have
been pursuing their studies for MAE months
Gssre &c or Of IL b. s. b. H. d. Pn d. or
"A. NJ. VINO have been pursuing their studies for
be eligible to row. ALI candidates for the last
pye degrees above named snail nave prsyously
The college in whose crew they are to row.
he dificulty In selecting a crew increases
with the mum uer. and even In England an eight
pared crew whose members have equal wind.
tklil, and muscle Is hard TO select; Amont our
pbs liete on account Of this drIicutI. In four.
miIe pull Of an eight-osred crew, one weak spot
j. fatal, and an even mediocre elgh has often
rained the victory one in which there are
seven good men and one who becomes ssen-
.aespsrSs squirt. Every thing, therefore, com
pines to make the race one OF intense interest,
YIN use an entirely different STYLE Of stroke,
S lie retaining the so called English stroke, and
Ats old one. whit h IS essentially American. All
3bngs even, II will be fair test Of the merits OF
THE HARVARD CREW.
Harvard has a hard task before her this sum
mer. Her CRIMSON colors viii wave in the eight
pared race with Yale, and also the University
sind Freshman races at Saratoga. Everything,
however. IA ade subordinate to the eight AIRED
tace, and the crew Ia certainly very promising
gne over fifteen underwent a trying ordeal
9ast winter and this spring before the eight were
hnaly selected. The crew are coached by Capt.
"a r. Lorin9. stroke, OF the University crew that
&eBt to England in 90 TO row oxford four
mile race, in which tue latt won, after des-
pefate struggle, by IL lengths. Last year, and
before even Harvard adopted to certain ex-
hsxt the English style Of rowing. The stroke
was slower than its old one, and there WAS a
slow recovery Of the body, quick with the
bands, and pause at the end the recover be-
rover was thus AIDE longer than the stroke. In
Sll this there has been radical change
bud the crew have returned to the old Harvard
ttroke. In Engand l. ring pulled forty -four TO
She Minute, and though the stroke looked short,
u wss IN reality long as Loring I'D an mmense
tength of reach. which enabled him To get far
forward, and which his crew were pressed To
Follow. WHAT looks in spur something like
cbucketing forward appears also to be one Of
1.-THE wrinkles. This stroke rendered Loiing's
rrew inyincibls In Collegedonl mere, brought
Them out only a few seconds behind In the race
with the famous Ward Blothers Ia ~. and had
pr the water, would undo ibtedly have brought
nolows;