New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-27
HARvARD'S SUPERB RACE.
YALE BEATEN ON THE THAMES BY ELEVEN
LENGTHS
THE CRIMSON LED FROM THE START ANn
GAINED At EVERY srRoKE-A CRUSH.
ING DEFEAT.

| defeated Yale at football in magnificent
| fashion. Fate decreed that the two great rivals
| should not meet on the baseball field. IL was
| left for the crimson and the blue to strive TO
pluck the final laurels of the year to-day at New
| London. Tonight the wreaths OF olives rest
| upon the brows of the Harvard And the
honors we'll beit the wearers. 1t was on the
waters of the dark-blue Thames that eight men
from Harvard met to-day eight sons Of the famous
old Yale University II was in battle royal.
| royalty fought, that they came together, and
while the crimson floats victorious tonight. all
| honor is due to the blue of Yale, which has 90
often been triumphant in shell-racing
| For the first time since 1885 Harvard to-day
showed, as good old song runs. -Four miles OF
| rudder 60 the crack w.Faven crew. And how
well she showed it She was generous in hor
| display Of that rudder. Eager that Yale might
view it and dwell upon it and learn to know 1t
WE'LL she took it out. snatched it from beneath
the bridge over the Thames and waiting 1t swiftly
TO the north kept it in the van until inpatient
| nj the slothful men behind she whipped
away and carried it far up the river. Inc
race of day not a race. Harvard IKE
bolt of Jove hurled her boat up the river rom
the start. She had neaRly half length 10 span
after the referee spoke the word which sent them
Off few seconds later she was leaplng over
the course at a pace which threatened to Kill
somebody It killed Yale. That is in few
words the story of to-days race
When the time for the start approached, every
one was surprised. Harvard was coming down
tie river rowing the cheerful snappy'
stroke which has been seen so OF
| ten of late on the Thames Yale's boat
was towed down Newell, of Harvard stripped
off his shirt a quarter Of mile away from the
ttal,e-boat. His fellows soon followed him.
| Then. with gentle stroke, the men pulled down
| 70 the stalxe-boat They rowed so beautifully
that ripple of applause spread over the river
| and rivalled the salt-laden breeze that came up
| from the sea. The wind was floating silently up
the stream. Below the bridge there
| luiet heaving of the waters. Above 1t there
was only rulIling of the dark-blue, and further
| up q calm, broken here and there by the faintest
wash The sky was without scar. The sun
was glowing; it was so deep OF hue that crimson
was its color. In the west the fringing woods on
the rivers bank bright in the brilliant rays
Of the sum- In the east, where the water was
still dark shadows lay under the cliffs. The dark
for Yale. the bright for Harvard. The breeze
fresbened as the hour for the race approached.
but it was not strong when Harvard came rowing
| easily down the river.
Far ND the river, where the four-mile nags
were lifted by the faint breeze, lay boats and
| Yachts innumerable. Above the bridge the
| river was covered with white-hulled boats, and
! from bowsprit to masthead, and from masthead
to masthead, fluttered gay pennants.
Better conditions for race could not have
| been asked The wind was astern; the tide was
! on the flood, and the course was up the river.
But. as men weltered under the driving sun, the
referee was preparing for the start AT this time
the lower haTbor and the river were thronged witn
| yachts Among them were:
| steam-Electra Vivenne, Reposo, Halcyon, Ncreid
! Charlota. tnguowa. Narwhad, LoEonnett, NelIa tr
Melissa oneida. Lorna, Peerless, N3shaweeDa. Aztec
! Lucille Aless, sycamore, Tie, susquehanna. stranger
| and Starting . ,
| Norma Viator Sylph, Aen0ne and Princess - .
| sloops-Wild Pigeon Pilgrim, Katrina, Lilly Bel,
Eumonia and Huron
On the referees boat were, among others
| Mcssrs Coles, Cook, Stevenson, Floyd
Jones and Isham, and George Adee, Of Yale; G.
Adams and George Adams, of Harvard while i,
launch at her side were Harry" Keyes, HaR
vard and Arthur Brisbane.
| Within ten minutes after the announced start
| ing time both boats were in position Then
came pause in the cheering while the starting
word was waited for. Only for a moment waa
there a delay, and they were off.
! The start WAS perfect. The oars of both boat
cleft the water at the same instant Sixteei
! oars rose and fell again in the same stroke, ant
the boats were shivering on equal terms as Il
seemed. But with another stroke Harvards shell
sprang to the front. IL went on quickly and
rushingly. It shot along until Bow Of Harvard
was abreast the tip OF Yales boat. Then it was
seen what force, power and energy were in the
| Cambridge stroke Harvard could not have
gained less than quarters length in that first
fierce burst but it was all so quick the stroh
was so rapid and the pace hot that no ON
could realize it until the boats off and tn
churning white in their wakes told Of their speed
| For six strokes IIaryards flashed under th
open sky and the blazing sunshine at forty
Yales oars were as fast For ten strokes tha
blue and the red blades cut the Thames in equal
time. but out and TO the front shot the Cam.
! bridge she'll And then Yale sent her stroke
down to thirty eight for the plan had been u
| kill Harvard with terrific rush. and here wa
Harvard asking for and forcing a lightning stroks
in the first break for clear water.
That stroke OF IIarvard's was terrible
| II drove the boat like flash up the river, and
woe to Yale, it would not saclSen. Its symmetr,
was perfect. The oar-blades were wonderfully
unanimous The bodies swung in time, and tho
boat shot like an arrow straight from one flag
IN the next Yale seemed TO be rowing well.
Seven clipped his stroke and his body-work was
fast. but his oar was quick and firm and powerful
He was crying for dasliing pace, but Strok,
gave him only thirty-eight
At this time laryards Craftsmanship was
picture from the Salon. The breeze, catching
on the feathered blades at times, sent fine sprayi
Of water out 10 the right and left. There was
slight sway in the waist of the boat, and doubu
were expressed TO the ability Of the crew to
hold the pace. But the oars sang in the same
measure, barred backs swung back and eased to-
| ward the bow in harmony. There was no change
in the time and as the crimson blades went back
and forth, marvels Of training and skill the shell
beneath them shot on swiftly and lightly until
| there shone clear, blue water between Harvardt
rudder and the knifelise edge Of the Yale boat
| 60 easy was Harvard's stroke that thought
~ a swinging hammock. And yet 1t was like az
| electric fash from the clouds. Yale's swias
was the momentum OF falling pile.
driver II had the power, the intensity
| .L..ah IL die old . Pahn Gaal, - rala