Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-27
Harvard Terribly Defeated.

made the afr blue in New London yesterday, and wards of bite bunting futtered in every conceivable place, giving to the streets and buildings of the town cerulean appearance that must have been gratifying to all Yale l supporters Every Yale man got all the blue | he could, and if he could get none he blew l tin horn, Firecrackers were fired and the air was filled with cheers. This was after the great aie-Hervard race, when Harvard had been beaten by five lengths and Yale had made the best record ever made on the Thames.
 The race was surprise to the majority of those who were present. Yale labored under discouraging disadvantages. Her crew was inexperienced and the stroke a new one. Parrott and Flanders were the only veterans. Three of the crew were regarded as weak men, On the other hand Harvard had an older, heavier and more experienced crew. month before the race no one at Yale dared hope for victory. But the Yale crew worked and improved under Captain Hulls coaching and Bob Cocks supervision. They were pIucky and determined to give their adver- sary close rub.
  enough to render postponement very prob able. The rain fell in torrents. Only few ladies and about two hundred students went from New Haven on the train that left about II o'clock. Arriving at New London it was learned that the race was set for 2:30 and would be rowed if possible. The streets did not present their usual gay appearance on regatta day.
 When the press boat Osprey steamed up the river, the grand stand at Winthreps Point was deserted. There were no yachts in the harbor near tke finish. The rain had almost ceased falling and the western sky showed faint traces of break up. The wind was blowing down the course at good rate. The observation train went up to the start with fifteen carrying about five hundred persons. As the Osprey was passing the navy yard she met the Yale launch carrying down party which had been visiting the crew at their quarters. The Harvard launch was cruising about in front of the crimson's headquarters and the Carrie Goodwin, the referees boat, was Hhistling for the ecews from her station near the start. Yale's crew were soon seen carrying their long boat down to the float Taking their positions they rowed at slow pace to the starting point. Harvard appear ed soon after and at 2:42 the crews were in position. The men threw off their jerseys and prepared for business. The students on the moving stand cheered lustily, with a slight advantage in Yale's favor. At 2:46 | the referees gave the word and both crews | took the water st the time. It was fine start. Yale toek the water at thirty-nine strokes a minute, and Harvard at 37. For an eighth of mile neither boat seemed to gain any on the other. Both crews pulled in even, measured swings and the boats shot through the water like arrows. With every impetus l given it each boat would seem to stretch its
 bow out little ahead of it's rivals, but fell
 back at the recover. But Yale gradually be. gan to lead and at the first half her boat was l half a length ahead. Wild cheers rang out | from the platform cars. The brown backs of Yales brawny oarsmen moved in perfect unison. Harvard was pulling her slow, sweeping stroke in good style. Yale passed the half mile. rowing in 3S, while Harvard had quickened to 36. As the mile flag wal passed Yale's lead was good length, and she
 was sticking to her 3s pace, Here Harvard be- gan to brace. Her stroke was increased and the coxswain called for spurt. The men re
 sponded nobly. Both boats encountered a | considerable swell from a large steamer
 which had just come up the river. Ysle'a course was directed considerably away from the flag line to the east. This seemed to many mistake, and as the Yale boat fell be- hind in the eel grass region, anxious hearts began to lose hope and repetition of the '52 race was feared. By the time the one-half mile flag was passed Harvard had lead of | length Her coxswain steering as straight as die and the beautiful Harvard stroke was doing finely. Patten, No. 3 in the Yale boat, caught crab, but recovered we'll He pulled wretehedly, however. Here ensued the great struggle of the event. It was beautifultest of the abilities of the crews. Captain Flanders sent his stroke up to 39 and called on his crew for spurt. It was as fine sight as has ever been seen on the Thames, when in the latter half of the third mile both crews were pulling for all they were worth. Yale quickly forged ahead, and on 1 the last mile had the race ali her own way, Her men seemed fresh, but Harvard pulled | in ragged form. At the finish Yale had about five lengths lead. The referee's time was twenty minutes end thirty-one seconds, the best time ever made on the Thames Har- vard's record of 20:45, made in 1878, being the best previous record. The fast time Is to be accounted for by conditions of wind and tide, which were extremely favorable for speed, as tue tide was running out strong and the wind blowing directly down the course. Yale gained an advantage from her course, as she was in the strongest current. But it was square race and Harvard was plainly out rowed. Patten improved on the last two miles. Parrott, as of old, pulled a strong oar, and Flanders, Scott and Peters did splendid work for the blue. Bryant was the weakest man in the Harvard boat and Sawyer did poorly. Captain Perkins did excellent work and tEe rest of Harvard's crew rowed we'll. It was not due to Har- yards weakness but to Yale's strength that the race was won. HarVard's time at the finish was 2O:46. Yale's coxswain, the lilli- putian freshman, l.. B. Caldwell of this city, steered fine course. His calls to the crew were uttered in such pleading and earnest voice that they could not help but respond Yale's time last Monday, which was reported as 19:4O, was 2O:194. That is the fastest time in which any crew ever rowed over the course. It is evident that there was a great deal of speed in the Yale boat
 The Yale crew returned to their quarters and aftesward witnessed the Harvard -Colum- bia freshman race. Later they din- ed with Mason Young, Esq at his residence. They returned with the hard-won flags on the 6:45 train The cars were decked with blue, blue flags fioated from the windows, horns blew, and at every station Roman candles were fired. The Yale crew look finely after the racs, and have not the worn and weary look usually seen on crews at the end of their long season of training The men in the victorious eight were as folio ws:
 Yale-Bow, Richard Storrs 's5; No 2, Charles B Hobbs '85; No 3, Henry W Patten 'S6; No 4, Alfred Cowles '86; No 5, Frank G Peters 'S6; No 6, Joseph R Parrott, l. s: No ', James Scott '84; stroke, Henry R Flanders '85; coxswain L E Caldwell '86.
 Harvard's oarsmen were: Bow, James R Yocum 1855; No 2, Arthur Ksith '85; No 3, James Storrow 'S5; No 4, Fred L Sawyer, l. S; No 5, William G Borland 'S6; No 6, Seymour L Hudgens 's4; No ', William s Bryant 'S4; stroke, Robert P Perkins 'S4; cexswain, Charles Davis 'S4.
 The umpire for the race was William Brad ford of New York, graduate of Cambridge, England.
 For Yale-The judge in the umpire's boat was Robert J. Cook; time keeper, G. A. Adee: fudge at finish, E. $. Brandegee