Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-02
THE YALES WIN EASILY.
It Has Been a Week of Victories for
the WearerS of Blue.
HARVARD'S CRIMSON CREW LEFT
Sixteen Boat Lengths in the Rear at the Finish-lt
Was an Easy Race for All, and None in Either
Crew Was Exhausted by the Work.
Yale's GlOck-Liks Regularity.

New LONDON, Conn, July This
has been a Yale week with Yale fin
ish. Tuesdays base ball victory over
Harvard; this mornings Yale conquest
of Harvard'S '95 in the annual two-mile
row on the Themes, and to put gloss
finish on the whole seasons aggregation
of Yale's athletic.achievements, came the
feat of the Yale Varsity Eight in turn
ing the tables on the Harvard crew this
afternoon, leaving them even farther
behind than Yale was left last year, and
that is saying great deal.
All the afternoon excursion trains
brought loads of people who were soon
transferred to the big steamers. The
water was perfectly smooth, the air
clear and the tide at low ebb. A strong
breeze was blowing from the north at
the backs of the crews as they rowed
down stream with the tide. All these
circumstances were highly favorable to
the lighter and ivelier crew of Yale
and adverse to Harvard's beefier and
stronger oarsmen.
1t was Yale's year to chose between
the east and west courses, and she Sc
lected the former. The sun was break
ing through the clouds at just o'clock,
brought their shells down TO the land
ings at their quarters, and at almost
exactly the same second stepped into
them.
Harvard's spry stroke secured hold
first and the crimson took the lead.
For the first hundred yards she kept it,
pulling a 80 stroke while Yale was
about 3S. Yale splaShed badly and the
boat rolled little while Harvard got
off comparatively smoothly.
At the first half mile Yale was rowing
half length in the lead with both
crews exhibiting the finest burst of
speed witnessed during the race, ex-
cept possibly at the finish. Yale con-
tinued its effective squirt during the
second half mile while Harvard fell
back little by little. When the Yale
shell passed the first mile post it was
three lengths ahead. The Harvard
stroke had taken surprising drop down
to 35 while Yale's oars struck the water
with metrical regularity, 81 times a
minute.
Yale took matters a trife more easy
from the mile to the mile and hall post
and the gap betweed the shells changed
little. Yale was four lengths ahead at
the two mile post, which marked the
conclusion of hall the race. Yale was
pulling a trifle more vigorously and the
Harvard coxswain was seized with III
OF crooked steering which brought his
boat toward the west shore, leaving
Yale near the center Of the stream with
the full advantage of breeze and tide.
AT the two and half mile post Yale had
placed fully eight lengths Of water be-
tween her stern and the Harvard bow.
The afilctlon which overlook the
Harvard oarSmen at this particular
point of the race was spiaShing. For a
hundred yards they pulled like fresh
men i'm this respect. Yale pulled stead
ily while their shell glided over the
river surface with tObOggan like smooth
ness. Along by the three-mile flag, Ly-
man and Capt. kettoon, Harvards Nos.
5 and Z, swung badly out OF shape, In
their desperation to urge the boat
along at a winning pace, each set diff
ferent stroke for the men behind.
Ii was a procession after the third
mile post was passed. The Yale oars
dropped exact and true, while Harvard
Jagged. A short distance before the
last half mile post was reached the
elghts passed between the loug lines Of
yachts.
A rousing salute was given both crews
as they passed each yacht, and the ef-
feet was was magical. An inspiration
made itself felt in both boats. The
stroke was quickened, the keels kept
more even, and the oarsmanshipof both
crews was decidedly more trim and
cleanly cut. At 5:37 and As seconds the
Yale boat shot by the finish, with Har-
ward Is or 16 lengths to the rear.
The Harvard shell crossed the line
5515 seconds later. Every member Of
Yale's crew finished fresh, and only one
or two of Harvard's crew were exhaust
ed Every whistle in New London. was
subjected to a full head of steam, and
the din was distractiug. Thousands Of
blue flags flosted aloft, while the losers
crimson dropped or were kept modeStly
out of sight.
The morning race ever the same
course will be found on page ,.
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