The record-union., 1892-07-02
GALA WEEK TOR YALE.
1t Winds Up With a Series of Vic
tories for the Blue.
HARVARD'S CRIMSON COLORS AGAIN
LOWERED.
The Former Commence the Week by
Defeating the Latter at Baseball,
and Wind Up by Showing Their
Heels to Harvard in the Inter-Col-
1egiate Boatrace-Thousands of Peo-
pie Witness the Contest.
Special to the REcoRD-Ux1oS.

n.
New LONDON, July I.-This has been
Yale week, with Yale finish. Tues
day they gained baseball victory over
Harvard, and this morning the Yale
freshmen won conquest over Harvard s
'95 in the annual two-mile row on the
Thames, and to foot the glorious finish on
the seasons aggregation of Yale's athletic
achievements was the record of Yale's
Varsity eight on turning the tables on
the Harvard crew this afternoon. The
criticism of either Yale's blade or body
work is difficult. The crew is called the
most perfectly drilled which ever repre-
sented it. The Harvard oarsmenship,
however, was unsteady, while the stroke
followed moderately well inboar9 The
work of the Harvard men was highly un-
satisfactory.
All the afternoon excursion trains
Brought loads of people, who were soon
transferred to big passenger steamers.
Inc water was perfectly smooth and a
good breeze blowing at the back Of the
crews as they rowed down the stream
with the tide. All the circumstances IA
vored Yale, and the adverse to Harvard
\ ale chose the east course, and at Just 5
o'clock both crews entered their Shells
and took up their positions. At 5:l7 the
boats got off, Harvard leading with q 80
stroke, and Yale about 80. a hundred
and tltty yards from the start Yale found
form. and shot past Harvard. Harvard
quIckened her stroke, making fight be-
fore relinquishing the lead. In doing so
she dropped into bad form, causing the
boat to roll. Both crews then settled
down to steady stroke, Harvard with a
quick, speedy dash, and Yale with delib-
orr -frt1 ,aI,
the distance between the two shells at
every dip.
At the half-mile Yale was half length
in the lead, with both crews squirting
finely. At the mile Yale was three
lengths ahead; Harvard rowing thirty
five, Yale thirty-seven. Between the
mile and the mile and half Yale took
matters more easily, and the positions
We're unchanged. At the two-mile post
Yale was four lengths ahead, and pulling
more vigorously.
Harvard was further handicapped by
bad steering at this point, and to the two
| mi1e and half post Yale was fully eight
lengths ahead, Harvard splashing badly,
| the crew having gone to pieces after the
third mile post.
1t was procession, Yale working with
mechanical precision, with Harvard rag
ged. AS the boats passed between the
long line of yachts which inclosed the
hnish rousing salute was given both
crews and the effect was magical. The
stroke quickened and the Craftsmanship
of both crews was decidedly more trim.
At 5:37:4S the Yale boat shot by the
finish, with Harvard fifteen to sixteen
| lengths in the rear. Harvard's shell
crossed the line 554 seconds later.
Every whistle in New London let loose,
and the din was distracting. Thousands
of blue flags tloated aloft, while crimson
dropped or kept modestly out of sight.
The official time for the four miles was:
Yale, 20:4S. Howard 2l:424.
Early in the day the Howard men
wanted odds Of 500 to $40, but the last
bets were made at 500 to $50.