Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
Another Marathon.
A Glorious Day for ssOld Yale

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 A Glorious Day for s'Old Yale g Football, Base Ball and Boatfng-A Splendid Record for 1ss0-Yale Wins the Boat Race, Beating Harvard 42 Seconds.
 The race of yesterday was glorious cli-
 max to the list of brilliant victories achieved | by Yale in athletic sports this year. First
 champions in football, and having won three 1 out of four games of base ball with Harvard, she winds up the season of 80 with one l of the noblest contests and most fairly earned races ever rowed. With the defeats of | the three successive boat races in as many years, yet animated by. her victories on land this year, she came to the starting point with victory on the one hand and defeat on ! the other melting her to herculean efforts. \ The day was glorious, cool and invigorating, \ with 8 gentle southwest breeze blowing. About 5:15 the press boat, soon followed by | the umpire and University boats steamed up I the river midst long line of yachts, sail
 boats, steamers and smaller craft, all decked
 in their gaiest streamers, their showy flags I and gaudy bunting contrasting with the 1 snowy canvas of their sails and the deep l blue of the river Thames, the new grand stand, with it's band of
 music and gay throngs, forming picturesque ! background towards the west. The water
 was perfect, only gentle ripple stirring it's | surface, for althougha stiff breeze from the ! southwest was blowing, yet the surrounding l hills broke it's force and protected the waters | from it's influence.
 The moving grand stand had come up the | track of the New London Northern and taken | it's position. The crews were summoned by \ the umpire, and Yale at about 5:20 was seen \ bringing down her boat to the water, Har- ! yard following. Some five minutes later Yale won the toss and selected the west ] course, a position rather advantageous in view of the breeze which was blowing AL ] most to the second at half past five the boats were ready in position, the sterns held in place by men in two boats anchored on the
 starting line. A moment later the umpire's
 atAre you ready, gentlemen? Go" was given
 and away sped the boats. Harvard took the water 8 little the first, though Yale almost
 immediately by a spurt drew 8 trife ahead.
 It was now Harvard's turn to squirt, and just
 almost as the boats were neck and neck, Yale,
 before hundred yards had been put be-
 tween them and the starting point, before
 the men rowed forty strokes, suddenly
 stopped rowing. What can the matter be?
 More of Yales proverbial luck? Such it
 seemed must be the case, for Yale had eer-
 tainly stopped rowing In accordance with the rule established this year
 case of serious accident happening within
 short distance of the start, the umpire fired
 his pistol as a signal for Harvard to stop rowing At first she either did not hear or
 needing it not thought to win the race of 80
 by a simple walk-over, but the umpire YVES
 determined and it was not until three shots
 were fired that Harvard finally stopped row
 ing. It was then found that MT. Rogers,
 captain of the Yale crew and pulling No. 6,
 had broken his oar lock. Of course
 the race could not be rowed until this accident was remedied, and the
 umpire thereupon signaled that the race
 would be postponed until o'clock, and both
 boats pulled leisurely to their quarters.
 There was now a good hour to wait and chance was offered to look at the town and observe the improvements if any over last year. There were no side lines of buoys ex- cept at the last half mile. The center of the course was marked by nine flags attached to high poles, which were in turn fastened to large wooden rafters composed of logs se- curely united by iron spikes. The end of the course was kept much clearer than last year. double line of logs driven together
 keeping the small boats from encroaching on l the course. With these exceptions the ar engagements were similar to those of '79. But now the umpires boat signals for the crew, and Yale, ever the first to obey, is in position at the start before Harvard had emerged from her boat house. They, how ever, were at the start after delay of some fifteen minutes. The word was given and away they sped, this time in dead earnest. Harvard got rather the best start, pulling 38 strokes to the minute, Yale close behind, pulling almost the same number. Harvard apparently was a little ahead bafore the word go was given. Yale drew up on her and was almost even at the end of the first half mile time 2:294. Harvard here dropped her stroke to SC, Yale pulling her same old 38 sledge- hammer strokes to the minute. Now she's gaining! now she's ahead! and at the end of the first mile Yale showed nearly three fourths of a boats length ahead; time, Yale
 5:414, Harvard 5:424. Yale kept up
 her old 39 to the minute, to which
 Harvard had herself returned, but to
 no purpose. She might have spurted
 up to fifty, it was no use. Yale drew ahead,
 seemed to gain at every stroke, and when the
 end of the second mile was reached Yale was
 clear five boats lengths ahead. Yale 12.O64,
 Harvard 12.29&. Both crews had now settled
 down to solid work and dropped their stroke
 to 34 to the minute, saving themselves for the
 last half of the race. Yale gained more than
 boats length every half mile steadily, and
 at the 24 mile post she was six good lengths
 ahead, Yale pulling 36 to the minute, Har-
 yard the same. This they kept up to the
 third mile, when Harvard fell back to 34, Yale
 continuing her 36; time, Yale 1S:261 liar
 yard 19:244. But now the end was nigh. They
 had passed over three-quarters of the course,
 and Harvard to win must gain some ten boats lengths. In the fourth mile she struggled nobly. She spurted up to 40, but it was of no avail, and with the cannons firing, whistles shrieking, flags waving and people shouting 
 like mad, Yale crossed the line the victor in 24 minutes 27 seconds, just 42 seconds or nearly twelve boats lengths ahead of Har- yard. The victory was theirs. That for which these eight stalwart men had been toil- ing and denying themselves for the past eight months was accomplished and their heroic efforts rewarded. The Yale crew rowed up to the judges boat, and having formally received the glad tidings of victory rowed to the float and disembarked. Cheer upon cheer again rent the air, fireworks exploded and the scene was one never indeed to be forgotten
 The following is list of the crews with their respective ages and weight:
 HARVARD UNIVERSITY CREW.
 Names. Class Age. Weight. Height Bow-Edward Atkinson. .'SI 2I 15O 510 2-William Freeland.. ......'81 g 162 59
 3-Herbert Howard. ........'S1 24 16S 59L 4Edward Brandegee.. g 165 5.9X