The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-01
HARVARD AND YALE,
PFoSPscIS OTIhe Great UniVsEuiiy Race at
New LOndOn TO-day-SOms OFIIieISm

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Prospects OTIhs GEsAt UniVsrsiiy Race
New London TO-day-SOmS Criticism
OTIhe CFeWs,
B!sToN, June SO.-The result ol tht
eightoar race between Freshmen
crews Of Columbia and Harvard Uniysrs
ties to day, causes much speculation
at Cambridge and in this city as 10 thl
probable outcome Of the match between
Harvard and Yale, which will be Fowed
at New London Friday afternoon.
Last Saturday Yale was sent over the
course on time, and finished the frat mile
In minutes 10 seconds, three miles In ld
minutes, and iour miles In 81 minutes 40
seconds: The Harvard crew, In their race
with Columbia, made the first mile In Eve
minutes, and three miles in exactly the
same time as that make by Yale
In the preliminary trial Of Saturday,
completing the four miles In 81
minutes, 40 seconds, or five seconds
faster than the time made by HaryaTd on
Monday. The Yale crew has shown some
very fast time on Lake Ssltonatsll, Con.
neCIicut, and the YalensiAns claim that
the eight will row over the Thames river
course on Friday, II oil conditions are
favorable, In lees than twenty minutes
They say they are justlaed In this predic.
ton by tho Performance Of the crew on
Lake Siltonstall less than Two weeks ago.
The best crew Harvard University has
had OF late years was that oil 1878, Of
which VIM. Amoa Bancroft was captain,
and which beat Yale so badly on The
Thames river This crew rowed four
miles with the 81 W current al the river
IN their favor and the wind astern
Of their b qt In % minutes and
a seconds, WHICH was oonsldered
'ema'k,6e rOfformtues. oa that
occasion The llaryards had In their
boat y man ('chwarz) who had
grown a felon or boil on hiS hands q few
days before the race, and had itlapCsd
within twenty.iopr honrs Of ta1ing bis
place at tho tiwSrI. Had II not been ior
this mans had hand, the Harysrd men
claim, they would have rowsd the course
in 20 minutes and 80 seconds. Yale has
departed from The conventional college
ideas oil style and stroke, and has adopted
the new notions oil professionals, such
as D Wis :pAtent slides, Davis foot rssts,
swivel row locks, rubber handled oars,
etc, and Mike DAvls himself Las been
with the crew Tor over q week past
rigging their hoat and superntending
tho scientilc aud mechanical features Of
the Yale "ship." Harvard is yet
too proud and too full OF ConCslt 10
adopt these new ideas. Fred Plaisted, the
professional sCuller, had discussion with
one OF the best men OF the crew few days
ago, In the course Of which Plalsted point.
ed out what Harvard was losing By
adhering TO old notions. The reply Of the
Harvard oarSmap was; "Well, we are
doing this thing irom an amateur stand.
poiut, and whatever we do we want 10 gay
that we have done without assistance
from professionals aud also that we know
our boat and how to propel II without
Instructions from outaldsrs." Plaisted
asked the young man what the length OF
his slide was, the espread Of The outTigger,
and the length Of his oar, aud he could
answeT neither question.
Captain Jasper T. Goodwin, OF the 90.
lumbias, now In this city, and coach ol Ihs
Columbia Ciew, says neither Harvard nor
Yale has really good crew that Yale has
not yet gotten over the tendehcy 10 "Clip,"
and tbs men row almost wholly with Ama
and legs, and do not use the body. He
says that the Harvard oaEsmen do not
catch the water quick enough, and re.
Iaove their oars be ore The stroke 10 really
finished; also that the men behind the
stroke oar row.d differently from that oars.
man. The latter criticism Harvard men
who atO rot prejudiCed Acknowledge to
be just but they explain the fault
by saying that the stroke oarsman
10 slight 10 build and does not
work with bis arms and lOga, while
bis "shipmates" use their bodies more
The criticism Of the Yale crew may also be
putfrom Capt Good win's standpoint, but Of
late years professionals have had o notion
that more power can ha put into stroke
hS the sGientiAc use OF arms and legs com.
hlDed, and that the effort is lees x6auStive
10 the vital oTgaus; and Davis, who iG an
argumentAtive fellow, has undoubtedly
con VinCed the Yale men that they row
their races to win, and that II they can
make their boat 60 faster than the Har.
yard craft by adopting The peculiar ideas
he has, they vii! !gst all the houora and glory,
and Harvard and Columbia may have oil
that is left, which Il the right 10 CritiOse
Yale for clipping" the stroke, "meet.
Ing" "lsCk u style" " or anything else II
plsaSes them 10 do. ~. .