The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-28
TWO DEFEATS IN ONE DAY.
THE UARPHRD VARSITY CREW BEAT
EN- BY YALE AND HkR FRESH
uKN BEATKN ny COLUMBId.

Iopdop TO Sec the Itaces-A Light Rain
Caused tho rostponement OF the Fresh
r.n Races UntIi After tho Varsity
Cr.v. Had Tried Their SKILLET IL the
Fifth Consecutive Time that Yale Hes
Led Harvard over the Line.
New IoSpoN. June 27-For tho fifth con.
,oc,,ivo limo tho dark blue OF good old Yale
has crossed tho finish line OF the Thames River
four.milo college course with the crimson oil
f.ir Harvard bringing UP tho rear. Yale
crossed the line in 81 minutes 20 seconds. Har-
ward in q minutes 40 seconds about three and
ope-hnif boat lengths behind. The race was
the prettiest and closest struggle that has been
eeen upon tho Thames for eight years. The
day broke fair and bright. Old Sol arose early.
He climbed tho distant heights OF historic
Groton and scattered the veil OF fog
which had settled on this quaint old place with
q few blinks OF his melting eye.
The streets presented m animated appear
anco before the morning had fairly begun.
Tho crowds OF people who had been gath
ering for week were all about and more
were continually coming. State street. be-
tween tho hotel and the railway station. was a
neyer- ending procession Of variegated aquatic
costumes.
Ate o'clock group OF fleecy clouds began to
chase each other about In the soft sky. and an
hour later they reached tho borrowing point
and were prepared to weep. In the moan
time the pretty girls who accumu-
late here during race week began TO
appear, some dressed in red and
some in blue. The trains kept rumbling
into the station and the crowd kept swelling.
The Columbia and Harvard freshmen were to
row at II :l5 o'clock, and the crowd wound its
way down to the long line OF docks and melted
boat nkIH No
blowing from the north, and the white caps
were jocundly dancing down toward the sound.
The weather grew more and more unpropitious
and the clouds spilled shower or two. After
drifting aimlessly about for an hour or so one
of the spectral-like launches shot across the
Manhansett's bow and the announcement OF a
postponement until after the big boat race shot
through the intervening space.
At O'Clock q special train bearing General
Counsellor Charles +. Prince Of the New York
and New England Railroad. and party Of
friends, arrived, followed half an hour later by
q Harvard special OF four cars. This is the big
Rest contingent Harvard has sent in several
years. The crimson bedecked crowd began
looking for bets at once. They wanted
8 to l. and they got II. 1t wasn't
until about 8 O'Clock. though. that the
town discovered how little it was and how
dfsagreeable 1T Is to be small. Tho two special
trains arrived from New Haven at that time.
They poured out thousands OF people. and all
looked as ii they had been dipped in indigo.
Tho color didn't appear to be indicative Of their
feelings. however. 1t was 6:3O o'clock when
solitary oarsman emerged from the Harvard
bout house. carrying two red-tipped oars tie
quickly by more in the dusky
il%Hat and Of 6:45 they started down the river
I he snrill whistle OF the steam yacht Un-
,ybI ch had the rAfarpA. Herman Oalrich
aboard. startled the Harvard boys from the
npparept reyerie and they too 1G ubGkly
s S nasd SeW of o6sea
t @rd Esan neIs catch sht the red
tipped, oars as they rise and fall. and they. too.
Tlers was little DELAY in getting into posi-;
81 The the addsr q ths to
bt TO good hss 1th nsEys the
So md 't do he cried and The TWO giant
crews from the two giant pnlverst:ies were on
Harvard Harvard was the first to churn the water.
The eight red-tipped oars disappeared thir;.
shell shot its nose ahead Of Yales. and the o.
' Sis Of Harvard mingled with, the "'RahS
OF Yale. and the tTo we're d e!H g:l Har;
they hadn't Feseined their eaulli6riHm. AZ
the mile drew the FSs
Sf orssd afkesd Ht s6s hSi:@e dag Yale had
were even and rowing In elegant form, Har-
ward at the rate 81 SS and Yale me- at SO. They
came from the Observation train was like a
volcanic roar
nile ag which WAS b reached me 2
one iota 1t had been succession OF 6purta |
al the way The nerves Of both crews
strain did not have the least effect upon them. |
They both rowed with machlne-like regularity.
most the same sam way way Yale's more thorough
stroke was sbe to bsbH
an anq Inch at Time. Yale sp passed the mile and
half flag at 1882. and Harvard darted by iustoaa
BehqS SaS s
behind Mamacoke Knoll at This point. and The
toward the ,two-nlle flag. Up to this point
renowned eel grass, here and struck slippery
water. The United States steamship Yantio
M sd So s e be
waving flags of red and blue as tho two crews
opponents, and at the two mile flag had, gained
materially. 1t was passed In O:46, HarXard
grand stand with its thousands OF excited
Fpectators came in view from behind tho sand
hills. and those who had paid beautiful prices
for the privilege got chance TO see the shells.
On toward the two-and- one h alf-milo flag
went the splashng oars and roaring lungs.
Both crews were unmoved, and both cox
Ewans sat In their boats like marble statues.
Harvard in 1920.
The, two were rowing as II their oars were
locked together. 1t was a 8i-stroke The
heavy current swept Harvard out Of her course
and the steering WAS u triio wild.
Tho three-mile flag was, reached by Yale in
passed. the flag there was u vivid flash OF Are
from the northole OF an anchored yacht and
@ cannon doomed. 1t was quickly followed BY
another. The steam whistles caught tho cue
and began to toot but 1t had no effect upon
the two magnificent crews.
Tho last milo OF tho course was fenced OF
from the. remainder OF tho river by u row II
craft. Tho blue and crimson pulled for the
three and n half mile flag Both wero rowing
thirty six strokes now, and rowing them well:
ale passed the flag In ~ minutes and Harvard
IN 1913. As thoy started In on their last
Ian. Cannon we're booming ovor their heads
and 1t was moro like running block ado than
owing, q boar race, lttlo white steam yacht
ignored the printed order on the stern OF the
TGGeGeO'S bOnt warning every one to keen