Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-03
HE RED BLADES WIN.
HARVARD EASILY BEATS YALE
THE GREAT RACE,
They rEavc it All Their Own Way froi
the start TO the Finish, and
Win by an Eighth
of Mile.

of "a Mile.
New LONDON. June 27.-Eight muscular
Harvard men. whose brown arms were not
hid len by their red Sleeveless jerseys, saun.
tered from the red-roofcd, yellow Queen
1 Anne cottage on the bank OF the hames
\ river, four miles aboye here, al II o'clock.
1.-THE crimson flag, with Harvard in big
bronze le ters on IT, tapped confidently when
they went into the boat house. where the
Harvard paper shell is kept In couple OF
minutes they came out. Their yellow cha
mois skin trousers clstcned in the sun
when they carried o long brown boat as
tenderly as if it was baby, and put II III
the water as daintily if it was piece
of fragile china ware. Then they sat down
cautiously on their sliding seats and
strapped their feet in the shoes secured to
the foot rests. The little waves ripple
over their oars. and the red blades looked
/ like huge goldfish. T. Q. Brown, the nine
ty- six pound coxswain, gave them final in
structions about how to act during the
krace, and then they leisurely rowed over to
THE starting point and waited for the Yale
Grew to come along and decide whether the
tenth eisht-oared race would tie the score or
kpu Harvard two ahead.
The Harvard crew padded around and
! waited for the Yale men to come. The tide
rose till it half covered the patent medicine
advertisement, printed in loud yellow color
on the rocks The girls on the observation
! train waved their parasols that every
body could see the color of the flowing rib
bons tied to the tip and the young men
yelled to timber their throats 1t was a
\quarter of an horr before the white ierseved
Yale men came down the bluff from their
old white farm house with green shutters at
Gales ferry.
L., ba toi, of ba
Partly through weakness, chiefly on account
Of the slipoeriness of the float, he tumbled
into he river, and it took a while for him
to climb out and be dried.
Yale had won the toss and chose the west
side where the eel grass isn't The tide had
moved by the time they were in position.
he gentle wind was from the south square
on the lows What waves there We're came
mostly from the steamers and tugs. 1t was
only an occasional gust that put even the
faintest white cap on the water
When both crews were readr they stripped
off their Jerseys, aud their sun-1yet brown
backs were barrel. Volleys of cheers came
from the observation train arl the yachts,
like rapid platoon firing Hurvard's cheers
snapped like rife shots, and Yale's "Rah,
Rah Rah' rcsounlcd as if fired fir IN a mus
ket instead of throat. Both crews paused
for a moment. The red and blue blaled
cars lay on the water and the cropping
waves threw up little drops Of spray as they
murmured over them. The ebbng tide
made faint concentric rirplrs about the rud-
dprs Each of the sixteen mon Lent forward.
His leg muscles were tense. II : back was
rigid His arms ware cutst'e, Ched, and his
rosnod hands crtcbed the rcugleael oar
handle closer thar sinking man would
hold plank. Each cox wcin called to his
Tic phcay-Dc~ lu,'al n md tbpD I
Referee Cornell CAV the worl
Sixteen cars dropped into TIE water, and
sixteen men. who for nine months had been
traininr. pull i a. il thev were rending
rocks. The Yale men caught the water first.
Their bow larely went head, and if a
charge of dynamite had blown up the rocks
it woul Int have been notice1 or heard in
the storm of Yals cheers. 1t was only for ii
stroke The secOnd stroke brOu ht The bows
even. At the third stroke Harvaru's bow
led by a few inches. TIE rocks MD the
crews from the people on the observation
train. but the press boat yol!e as loud as
they could. Before the crews had gone 200
yards Harvard led by a quarter of a
length. They pulled easily and without
straining. Their backs rose and fell to-
gether. Their yank was not sudden or vio-
lent. hut when the oar blade was in the
water it was pulled hard through the WI ole
stroke. They started off with A to the
mirute.
Yale's crew pulled jerky stroke of AZ.
They splashed. The stroke was not pulled
through and it lacked the vinmy yank that
wins
At tho half mile there was quarter of a
length of clear water between Harvard's
stern and Yaie's bow. Both crews were
rowing Al. The Yale men did not feather
clear and it looked as if the port side was
pulling the sLarboard side arouni. Harvard
gained st ably, and at the mile flag there
were three lengths of clear water between
the boats Yale had quickened to ~. Har
ward still pulled 40 The time for the mile
was 5:4sA and Coz
When the observation train came out
from beLinl the rocks, and the Harvard
men saw how the Yale crew were falling be
hind, thev yelled and waved their fars The
echoes came back and made the c1ll 'ge cheel
sound like a few dozen rahs instead of nine
The Yale men were silent, but tie Ya.t
girls waved the blue ribbons on theiI
parasos at the crew and hoped TO en-
courage them But the Yale crew had NJ
chance of winning, and everybody saw
it before the race was half over. Stroke an.
No. 2 rowed we'll, but the middle of tn,
boat was soggy. Nos g. and 5 pulled will
their arms and exempted their backs from
much labor. Instead OF the vigorous heav'
at the beginning Of every stroke that Boil
Cook tired to have there was llstles
dropping Of the oar, hurried graz to &c
it out OF the water as soon as possible, ant
an occasional splash, At The mile AM
half Ya-n pulled 40, Harvard SO. Tine
9:01&, s:34;4
Earverds lead at the two-nile flag wa
four length OF clear water Stroke bofCrc
Time--l2lOa, 12:471l, The race was pra'
ticalIy over, The Yale crew fe.t so, ami Ii
Yale men on the shore and on the yCcht
knew the race was lost, aud figured up no,
many thousands Of dollars poorer the Hal
ward men would have been if tn wearets
the blue hadn't been lured Ly odds into bet
ting. II was SO one-sided that tie Harvar
men d,dn't cArer during The race as much
last year, wi icy were defeated Sen
of them cheered sarcastically for Yale, an
sang songs of derison.
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