Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-01
The BOat Race.
Yale Loses, But Only By Three Seconds
 A Close Racs-YaIe's Stroke.

\ n Ie Loses, But Only By Three SecOnts-
 A Close Racs-YaIe's Stroke.
 There was not a large crowd at New Lon don yesterday, although the race was rub ber'' and was everywhere expected to be close one. This was owing partly to the fact that the race came two days after the Yale | commencement instead Of the day after, as | Yale men preferred it should be. But if the race was claimed before hand by bothssides, the betting was, as usual, in favor of Yale and Harvard claimed odds of about to 8. The town was comparatively quiet, both be- fore and after the race. The majority of Yale sympathizers did not go down until the morning excursion train. The officers of the two boat clubs were out early in the morning and found every indication of 8 good day. The sun rose in a clear sky and there was -o1y little morning breeze. By the time of the race the breeze had freshened little, but it blew down the course and aided siderably in lowering the time. The tide, too, was flowing out during the race, so that what little breeze there was did not make the l water rough at all.
 The start and the finish were at the same places as last year, and the bueys were al- | most the same. There were six boats fol- l lowed the crews, the umplre's boat, the press boat, the university boat, the Yale
 launch, the Columbia launch, and private 1 launch floating the crimson. There were l anchored near the finish more than the usual
 number of yachts.
 The Yale boat was the first to put out, at 1 1O:34, being arranged in pairs and bending l their bodies very little. Their action was
 not at all beautiful, but the observation train greeted them with rounds of applause, as il
 also did the Harvard crew, which came out seven minutes later. The Harvard stroke
 looks more powerful. It is the old swing
 far forward and far back, all in al a moderately fast stroke, but nothing \ like the 47 to @ minute stroke of the Yale ! boat. Ya1e won the toss and took the east | side It agreed that the sterns should | be together on the start and that the meas l urements at the finish should correspond
 There was at first so ome trouble on this point
 Harvard at first refusing to row unless they l should start with bows together. But thu ! referee did not care to take two or thre,
 hours to change the posts and the result wa l this arrangement.
 ' At the starting gun Yale was off pulling 4' to the minute to Harvard's 38. In fev
 strokes Yale took lead of about ten feet an, heightened this little until the mile fa E was passed Then she seemed suddenly t'
 shorten her stroke and lost ground rapidly ! while Harvard quickened her stroke 8 littl and shot ahead. The cause was that the Val | coxswain had steered too far from the flag and run tLo boat among the eel grass. It wa impossible for the Yale crew to keep thei stroke in such water. But they pulled pluck
 fly. At first sight No, seemed to be pull , ing out of form but look showed that hi oar was doing it's work and the man behin
 it pulling like hero. Mo- 5 once got littl out of stroke. Harvard continued to gai , until the navy yard was reached when Yale crew settled down again to their steady wor
 and began to lessen the four five boa 2 lengths which the crimson had gained. The l had left the ee'.grass. Spectators, hnot know l ing the reason of the poor work, had give up all hope for the blue, when suddenly new interest was melted. Folsom was TOW 8 ing the old 46, and every man pulling in frs
 rate style. The distance between the tw , boats shortened continually, although Hal ' l yard soon began faster stroke All at ono K l it seemed that Yale would win after al
 Again and again she spurted the Harvard l bow was giving out. But once more the, , l was blunder in steering and the race WE lost by three seconds. The coxswain. instea . | of steer Bag straight ahead and crossing th 7 line at right angles, when about forty roc k from the finish changed his course and heat !, l ed for the point he ought to have struck if 1 had all the time kept nearer the flags. Thu
 he must have lost a dozen feet at least. 0 the finish there was the customary firing ( v cannons from the yachts and great hurrahin 7 1 for Harvard. But there was none at the fiji
 ish capable or willing to figure out the tim.
 and the press boat and spectators had d wait unusually long while for the resul f Winning time 20:473 Yale time, 2O:504.
 The facts of the do not seem to sho
 that the stroke is anything but success - The crew can certainly keep it up for for
 miles, and judging from the last two miles h this race it is a telling stroke against tt
 longer in spurt.
 6 One of the Yale crew said after the rac Il that at one time the swell from the umpire e boat was perceptible. If that is so there l., ! every reason for concluding that Yale lo
 the race more than Harvard won it.