New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-29
NEWYORK SATURDAY, JUNE %, lss9-TEN PAGES.

together Eoth sets Of oars hit the water together
and both boats moved forward on an even line
IIar, ard had started on q thirty-two stroke, and
SO had Yale. To the first flag, the half.milc, the
contest was genuinely exciting one, and cheers
rose again and again from the support
crs of oo,h colleges in the train and
on the boats Neither crew seemed 20
he squirting. each recognizing that the pull was
IA long one and not to be won By forcing the
gait on the first quarter. Yale's form was better
than Harvards, but the Cambridge shell seemed
70 hold It's own nobly, and some Of the more
sangune Harvard men began TO believe that the
crimson might win
just before the half.milc nag wns reached, Cald-
we'll, the Yao stroke, dropped down 10 thirty
to the minute gait, but Harvard kept Oh pulling
thirty-two The time to the first flag was TWO
minutes and twenty eight seconds for both boats.
Just past the half-mile point Yale raised her
stroke TO thirty.two again, and the effect was
seen in the slight forging ahead Of the New
Haven shell. This gain maintained and In
creased between the haf-mile and the milo, the
Yale boat crossing the line in four minutes and
fOrty.sNen seconds from the start, with Harvard
seconds behind. The Yale men were still row.
ing In their best form Harvard q trIle
ragged. the bodies of the men seeming TO move
lrregularly now and then. No. was an especial
offender in this respect. But those who had seen
the Harvard men row were quick 20 say that every
thing was all right in the shell and that No.
b's rolling was only his natural way OF rowing.
From the mile 10 tho two.mic flag Yale contn.
ucd to draw steadily away, and tho steamers
which followed the race were left more and more
in the rear of hopeless stern chase. AT tho
mile and a half Yale was seconds, good boat
length ahead OF Harvard. The time TO this point
for the two crews was: Yale, minutes / ) sec
onds Harvard, minutes l . seconds Yale had
run her stroke up 10 thirty-thrce to make tho ad-
ditional gain. Harvard was still pounding along
az thirty-two. Both boats were rapidly
drawing into the narrow part Of tn" river Off
tho Navy Yard, where fCw other craft but the
referees launch could follow them abreast, and
the Hcct fell more and more behind. 1t was still
light enough TO the blue and crimson tips
Of the oars as they flashed ont Of the water, and
10 make out the course flags as the shells rushed
along on either side Of them.
At the halfway point Yale and Harvard were
sui both rowing thirty-two, but the New Haven
boat had made an enormous gain. II passed the
two-mic flag o minutes, seconds from the start.
Harvard did not grt by until IL seconds later.
This was lead Of three boat lengths, and nobody
now expected that the Cambridge oarsmCn could
even hold their own 10 the finish. From the two
mile flag to the two-and-a-hnlf mile flag they did.
in fact fall back nearly two lengths further Yale,
stu pulling thirty two reached the two-an i-a-halt
miNr line In l3 minutes l second. Harvard was
nineteen seconds behind. This constant loss OF
ground had no effect. however. on the Harvard
stroke Ierrlck still kept down aS low as Yale s.,
between thirty and thrty-two. He had gauGcd
his men accurately, II seemed and knew that they
could not 20 above this level without danger OF a
COLLAPSE Yale finished the third mile in II miu-
utrs 81 seconds Harvard passed the flag in -
minutes 81 seconds. n loss OF only one second on
the half
The last mile Of the course up stream runs In
close the western bank Of the river, and IN the
thickGing gloom the two crews were almost lost
10 sight against the shore. Now one could be
seen, now another, but neither with much accu-
racy. Both were rowing thirty-two 10 the minute,
Yale apparently satisfied with her lead aud llar-
ward only struggling to kcrpthc defeat from being
too overwhelming. The thrrc-and-a-half-miic
llas Was reached and passed by the leaders in Is
minute, 81 seconds Inrvar!'s time to this point
vas Is minutrs 81 seconds II was now only
= question ot getting TO tho end. Neither
crew spurtrl, however. Yale, rowing thirty
two. cut across the line easily in 81
minutes 80 seconds and Harvard followed IN
Il minutes 81 seconds. The people on th obscrNa-
tIon train were close enough. perhaps, to guess
~ tie number Of lengths that lay hct Nc'n the
Two boats Nobody else Colld SEE. Tn df"rrnr"
IN time wOuli indicate "a defeat OF about SIN or
..,cn boat lengths. Both crews rowrd away at
once 10 Their quarters, Hnd the fleet that had
eut up ~ far ns the finish DISAPPEARED Is last
"A, n could IN the direction OF Ncw-Lond"n.
Finishes at Iiarvard-lalc boat races hay" often
been painted in brilliant colors. But that TO-
night lacked all III" striking effects generally
recorded II was louX after sunset, AMI fog ana
darkness wcrr settling down on the river,
0n,rurin- the whole scene Evcn tn cheers and
,aIut,~ that greeted the winners OF yesterday
r.cc> wer" wanting The Yale rontIngrnt op IN"
oh>crl alton train made Somc noise OIt me loco
motive soon drew away the heavily loaded cars
toward New London. The steamers could not ut
within u quarter OF u mile Of the finish iinGs. ana
people aboard could only cheer on faith and ferhly
For spectacular purposes finish at the upper cnu
II the Thames course, in the early dark OF the
rvruiIig is n failure. =, -,
Tho following table will show by haltmlcS the
time made by the two crews: