The New York herald., 1877-07-01


tour miles. For four miles, ril the throat parenes
the lips become not dry and heart beats Ike
better OF The :wO, the hands. arms ana backs NOV
iug better together than they IN the other boat.
The Harvard inen are catching and hushlng ptrieciy
abG gel tremendous MI Oh their boat. brt the
minutie VI form are not carefully attended 10, aud
though the crimson blades oox beautifully on the re-
cover. the appearance Is produced by the uniformity
oi color, and the feather Is not hnished one
wnen opposite Harrissns noaI, tho end
Of The lrst mile. there - hall length
Of clear water between tue boats, Harvard rowing
33 and Yale "a 10 the minute These POSITIONS they
keep TIL tie bend Ut The end OF the second MILE when
Yale puts spurt and tres To pass her rivaL lne
gap 10 signify CLOSED, out IN lew minutes mas been
opened aaan TO It's former extent AZ the crews
round The bend al Agawam Jerry the advantage
OF inner course becomes more apparent. The
Harvards choose their own water their rivals get
ter upon the over course the sea becomes heavier
and Doth crews occasionally splash. All tns time
Harvard Is .sadi1s % ana Apparsn,ly aoidng ,hs race
Temps to get shore Tor smoother water the referee
shouts 70 them 70 Keep on. !housh IN taking
croach upon the Harvard water. About hero
the Yale coxswain makes au srror OF judgment and
keeps the head OF hs boat out toward the mldde OF tho
He gets rougner water py dong and perceptl
bly, loses. lew huudred yards .urtner, toward The
middle OF the third mile. he snore
follows wake OF the Harvard boat very properly
disregardiDg The inJunciions OF the releree,
who, Tor some ncomprehensibe reason, shouls 10
him keep away. Harvard IN the meantime s
rowing beautuy-that Is ~ beautifully an any crew
row sucn sca. there is no attempt al nicety
water with heavy swinging stroke wnch
looks II II would last forever They look
ircsher than the yale men, who are work,
rare pluck anc courage ana occasionally drawing up
in way that looks AZ though Tho race was not lost
YET Aud now the water becomes so heavy tnat the
men covered with spray, AUD every now and then
the run ong the bow VI the boat and breaking
against No. Us back are carried AFT in the form OF
spray blindipg the coxswain. Harvaru's wash
boards afford her some protection and she
ships about lour inches Of w.uer Tue Yae boat
huytu m has
inches OF water her. This rusnes back al the each
OF stroke ana kills her headway. lp this matter
Yale TO blame for ner In mol providing
herself wItn wash0oards Toward the end OF The
fourth mile Yale puts on tremendous spurt rowing
30, and nearly collars Harvard, Dut she can't keep
II up and tho sohd pouudng stroke OF the red caps
opens out the breach again aud Harvard crosses
es.n ins o1 o s wa.e From Sssns To- end
rowed an even, steady stroke, pulling thrtyhve al
the start ana then gong down al once 10 thirty three
and only OCCASIONALLY pulling thirty Tour. No ono
who the crew could repress tnsr admiration Tor
their spiendid symmetry. II will be almost uposs-
bic 10 lind anything 10 beat them n1xt year, wnen
their already formidable rowing powers Increased
by an additi ional year OF age and experience. rhe
Yale men all pulled pucky. They had the outside
in iour-mile they shipped great deal OF
wafer; they mad an uucvcniy balanced crew AS re.
CARDS physque their strong point, Their PERFECTION Of
form and perfect calch, useless IN tho heavy
they rowed in Tor .hle one oar would be buried half
OF its LENGTH the mex, would travel couple OF lee
hang ON doggedly for tho four miles, and at
the end came only length and three-quarters be-
In
24m 35s Tor Yale, 2im AIS. The referee Profess
Agassiz OF Harvard University. Mr. George Shell
field. VI Yale '6s was oflcal umekeeper The judges
For Aarvard-G. F. Roberts Harvard, '7l) and p.
TucKerman.
For Yae-wiibur Flagg yale, '1s); Newell Martin
(Yac, '75)
Boh coxswans stesred well, AllOn's course being
particularly good.
bers OF the rival COLLEGES and after the race, though
many had scarcely tho wherewitha TO get home, co J.
gratu tuajons anu hapdshaking between the oppos q z
factions the Of the day. Nearly every one
who tho at Springfield left Tor Hartford
twenty minutes 70 three tram 70 see tho third match
OF The series tor the baseball championship.
THE RACE DESCRIBED BY coLuMBIA's STROKE
OAR
SPRiNGRrELD, Mass, June 80, 1877.
The four.nile eight-oared shell raco between Har.
ward and Yale rowed this morning. on the Spring
hed course. and resulted, as prcdcted-at least by
unprejudced minds-in q splendid victory for stair
Harvard" Yesterday thoro was q goodly number oil
spectators all along on the river banks and at The
grand stand but the postponement account of the
rough water sent them home, SO that to-day there
not many; still the grand stand was com.
fortably filed The river steamers succeeded
little better to-day In keeping Up with
the crews but they need to do much
better before they DO called good
regatta boats At six O'Clock In the morning river
perfectly calm. and IL was thought that the wind
wearing around TO the north and that there would
be smooth water all day, but about eight O'Clock the
wind began reshcn and blow directly up the course
and by O'Clock the was Iumpy and IL
was the would nave to be postponed again.
Al a lew minutes before nine the referee went down
to the 1nsh with judges to II every thing was all
right aud to determine the condition OF the water.
Ho returned at ten minutes before ten to Har.
rigan's wharf and took aboard the committee
and the favored ew and then he went up the boat
houses Of the crews to have them got reaay start
Both crews we're at their lighthouses and both anxious
to pull Harvard's crew In tho best Of spirits,
but the Yale seemed 10 be little moody, and IN
this has noticeable for the past days ever
since the Harvard. Columbia race. The referee after
giving them instructions, went 10 the starting
line ana made sure that the stakepoats were
all right At thirty-seven minutes past ten
Harvard put their boat on the water aud
the men having taken their seats, they paddcd
away from the aoat Yale followed In about five min
utcs Both stopped once before roach
ing the line. As they came rowing down tho river
said. SHOW powerful the Harvards look I"
Others "How pretty the Yules 20 and the truth of
the matter Is they were both strong ana powerful
crews, and both wore rowing 10 splendid orm. TIE
Yale crew we're rigged higher than the Harvards and
consequently eathcred much higher, and thus seemed
to be advantage to them Considering the state Of
the It was feared that the Harvard boys would
trip badly but this did prove to- DO the case or
the contrary, they rowed much more steadily than
Yale.
The having got into line Harvard had tho
shore and ale the east The referee started them
10h 45m Both crows caught the water well tosc hor,
but anything the Harvards had little the best OF it,
Both started "a a 80 strokes minute md both ruwed
we'll Inc Harvard mon wero reaching we'll out using
tncr backs to good advantage, htng her hard the
beginning" and pulling their stroke well through and
together aud had good catch on the beginning Of
the stroke, but they did not pull through
well as the other crew. They handled their
oars nicely and II was very pretty rowing,
but not as effective II ought TO have
been. Before they bad rowed quarter Of mile tho
Harvard crew had good halt length lead Yale, aud
al tho railroad bridge she had increased her read 10
length, both crews still rowing 80 strokes pcr
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