Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-01
From Harvard's Standpoint.

How the Great Unfversfty Race Is View
 ed-Due to the Superiority Of Yals's
 Crew-Captain FIanderS and Bob Cook
 Praised-What Harvard's Next Years
 Crew VIII Have to start With.
 The Yale-Harvard race is thus viewed by writer in the Boston Herald: The Harvard. Yale university race has been rowed and won
 Harvard, starting at the beginning of the university year with 8 crew that three months
 before had been brilliantly successful, finds her. self defeated through causes which need not be
 mentioned hers, but which are well understood by Harvard oarsmen. not, however, without
 race that was grandly wed, and in which, even after due allowance is made for fast water, both crews must be credited with ! making splendid time. The rival eights rowed substantially the same stroke. and | used boats made by the same builder, of al- | most the same dimensions. The only differ | ence was in the oars and rowIocks, and this difference was slight--but little else than to | enable one crew to row a faster, though ! shorter stroke than that of the ether. Yale's victory, therefore, was due almost solely to the superiority of the crew itself. Yale had
 men, who, if not stronger, still were men | who had become more accustomed to their places than had Harvard's, who had longer
 been actuated by a united determination to
 win, and had prepared themselves for hard struggle against what was expected to
 be superior crew. Harvard missed her op- portunity. Yale won, and it was 8 victory as ! brilliant as few months ago it was unex- pected. Yale won because she deserved to | win, and it would doubtless be hard to find 8 Harvard man who who would pluck single
 star from the
 DIADEM OF GLORY
 | with which she has crowned herself. All
 honor to Captain Flanders and his gallant
 crew! They have contributed not little to
 the cause of good rowing by the adoption of | 8 rational stroke and 8 rational method of | training, and then faithfully learning the one { and conscientiously observing the other. | Through them, for the third time, in the | face of great difficulties, ''Bob' Cook, Yale 8 most famous oarsman, has been vin-
 dicated, and his skill in college row ing acknowledged to be of the highest.
 As to the relative excellence of the present < Yale crew when compared with former crews, | it is difficult to form an accurate idea, but it I is admitted that race has been rowed | when the course was so favorable to fast time as it was on Thursday last at the hour of the race. It is known, too, that, under conditions doubtless about the same, the | Yale crew on Monday last rowed over the | course from the starting line to the finish line in 2Om. 25s., or in six seconds better ! time than was made in the race. On the | other hand, it is claimed that Harvard'a 79 crew rowed over the course in 2Om. 30s., un- | der conditions not so favorable were those | on Monday and Thursday last Fast time in practice has also been claimed for other Yale crews. and perhaps the eight of the present year is not the fastest. But it has been | their fortune to make record which it is not likely will be soon broken.
 Harvard will lose four of her crew and the coxswain; Captain Perkins, Hudgens and Bryant, who were members of the senior I class; Sawyer, who was 8 member of tine ! Law school, and Davis, the coxswain, who | was member of the senior class. There re-
 main Storrow, who was elected captain for next year, Yocum and Keith, all of next year. g ! senior class, and Borland, who next year will be junior. Captain Perkins and Coxswain | Davis will engage in business pursuits; Bry- | ant sailed yesterday for a European trip; | Sawyer will continue the study of law. and Hudgens is expected to follow some literary | calling.
 Mir. J. J. Storrow, who has been elected to 1 captain the crew for next year, is the son of | a prominent Boston lawyer who himself ! rowed when at Harvard. Young Storrow ! ulled in his class crew in it's races in his 1 freshman year and also in 's3, was taken into
 the varsity boat before the races at New London in '83, and pulled in both at No. 3, ! which position he occupied this year in the races of the 18th and 18th inst. His selec- l ton as captain is regarded as an excellent I one, and, in spite of Yals's formidable crew, 1 Harvard's prospects for next year are by no ! means gloomy.