Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-27
rHE YALE-HARvARD RAGE.

Vale Far Nm The Rear-Marvard
 Leads Yale From The Start, Rows
 Easily And Neatiy-Over Nine Thou.
 sand Dollars Worth or Bets In
 Rows Despite The Protest - New
 LondOn's Greatest Day Since GrOton
 Celebration.
 New London yesterday entertained more visitors than at any time since the oenten- niai celebration at Groton in 1881. The re- ported prowess of both the Yale and Har- yard crews brought thousands of sympathiz- CTS and adherents to the Whale Oil city, and beginning with Thursday morning the little town was fairly at her wits end to supply eating, drinking and sleeping accommoda- tions to the supporters of the rival universi- ty eights.
 Although Yale's crew of seven veterans, with tried and successful stroke, and their wonderful time in practice pulls, made her the favorite with sporting men early in the con test, yet the possible advantage of profes- siona1 coach and Harvard's smooth practice rowing on the Thames led to a gradual change in popular feeling and Thursday night there was more Harvard money offered at odds than the champions of Yale were willing to cover. In the Crocker House safe alone there were $9, 900 deposited on yester- days race, and the total amount wagered is incalculable owing to the widespread betting all over this section of the country. Yesterday morning nineteen passenger cars and two engines left New Haven at S:1o with some 1000 students, New Haveners and their respective mothers, sisters and lady friends, and when the observation train of twenty cars started towards the starting point of the race, there was net a single seat unoccupied.
 Despite the stiff southwest breeze and re- sulting rough water it was announced that the race would be rowed, and with heavy loads the press boat Osprey, the referees steamers and tugboats started up the river, arriving just in time to see the Harvard crew put out from their quarters at 11:02.
 Flanders, captain and stroke of the Yale crew, had been ailing for the past two days with a severe attack of diarrhpa and many questioned whether he would row, but at ten minutes past eleven the Yale eight rowed down with him in his usual place.
 In reply to telegrams sent to the Harvard faculty they had responded that Penrose, the suspect in the Harvard boat, was pursuing a course of study in a graduate department, and this proving satisfactory to Referee Cor nell of Columbia, at 11:24 the word Ego" was given, and with leap the Yale boat bounded some three feet ahead of it's rival shell.
 Harvard, however, immediately gained the lead and held it to the finish, having put a clear boats length of water between herself and Yale by the time the half-mile flag was reached, the official time being: Harvard, 9 minutes 5S seconds; Yale, minutes II seconds. Both crews at this time were pulling forty strokes to the minute, and throughout the race the average was nearly the same, liar yard pulling about thirty-seven strokes, while Yale stuck to thirty-eight, with spurt to forty-one when near the navy yard. At the mile flag the race was clearly Harvard's, barring accident, her lead being nearly four lengths. From this time on she relaxed her efforts somewhat, pulling cleenly and eau tiously, and despite the desperate efforts of Yale finished easy winner in 25 minutes 151a seconds, by some fifteen boat lengths.
 Yale's official time was 26 minutes and 30 any previous race on theThames except once. Throughout the race the observation train kept near the crews and at the grand stand at Winthrop's Point two large balls, one of red and one of blue, indicated the progress of the race to the thousands there anxiously awaiting tidings of the to them invisible shells.
 As soon as the finish was reached, the many yachts and steamers lying abreast the Point saluted with their guns and amid the frantic cheers and gesticulations of Harvard's thousands of supporters the Yale Harvard race of 1885 was at an end.
 The crews rowing in yesterdays race were as follows, their weights having been officially Thursday: