The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-07-01
YALE'S GREAT VICTORY
10 a Gale Of Wind and q Choppy Sea
Harvard Is Defeated.
REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE
Harvard Led for q Long Distance
But Weakened -Ysle's Sand
Carried Hor Through
Four Lengths Ahead.

Four Lengths Ahead.
NEw LoSpoS, June 3O.--with 'Bric-ki.
ki-ka" for Yale aud nine "Rahs'' for
Harvard. New London awoke to the red
letter day of tho year. These cheers broke
forth with the dawn, punctured with the
cries of other colleges, and continued in
cessantly until after the race. That tells
are concerned.
II was prominently day of noise. col
lese yells, cheers, shouts and bedlam, the
result Of the annual Harvard Yale boat
race. The town was early alive TO the pro-
ceediugs of the day. Two thousand stu
dents, who had been staying here the past
week. tumblcd out of bed long before
o'clock and. dressing themselves in their
iaunticst attire. went down the streets to
meet 5000 men and girls who arrived this
morning To see the great racc.
Vessels of all sorts were on the water.
and the houses of the town were most pro-
fuscly decorated with blue and crimson
colors of the competing colleges.
AT 10 o'clock a train OF 40 observation
cars pulled out from the depot and went
to the starting point. four miles above the
Wv w VI ySis anu
college cries.
At the respective training quarters the
crews retired early. rose early, break
fasteI hearty. received private instruc-
tions from their respective coachers and
passed tho remainder Of the morning as
suited them.
Yale's crew left their quarters first. At
i0:n,5 the shell was lifted INTO the water,
,.,e a., Th.,
ward oarsmen tramped to the boat house
at l0:225, aud at 1850 had taken their
positions in their shell. Both einhts were
on the line nj II o'clock sharp and Yals's
blue waved triumphantly at noon in her
third and greatest victory OF the week.
The annual varsity crew race over the
historic four-nile course on the Thames.
was the hardest, as well rs the closest
race pulled by the great rivals for years,
and until the last half mile was reached
nificent epuipoise.
too fast. The crimson boat shivered.
shuddered, aud finally collapsed after ro-
signing the lead when the race was three
quarters over. The blue oars. on the
other hand. grew steadier with every
etuOACs ouu ~ tuc GAo3o wCto SSuouuk VIZ
boat along Mt one Of the strongest. most
uniform and speediest rates over trav-
ersed by Yale shell.
The contest was terrible test OF endu-
rance, especially whom the light weight Of
the occupants Of the rival shells 10 taken
into account. A strong head wind came
up about 1880 o'clock and blew still
breeze squarcly against tho backs of tho
a L.. AL N-.,.
utes slower than the records made by the
crews Of last year. Every instant during
the race the breeze increased aud by the
time half the course had been traversed
the Thames had been stirred into
quite formidable whitecaps and a
min iature gale was blowing ur
ance and training won the day. Bob
Cooks boys were outclassed Mt tho start
by Harvard's sprightly and more effective
stroke on the first mile. II was a case Of
the survival of tho iittest. This was evi.
dent from the time Nale's stroke began to
tell at the end of the second mile, until
the bow shot across the line at the end oi
the fourth mile, winner by four full
lengths.
When the winner crossed the line the
din was ueaicniIg. Livery Wuistte w town
on the river and harbor. railroads and
factories added to tho pandemonium ant
the mighty cheers of victory from thou
sands OF cNultant Salensians were
drowned completely.
MOI man III tue iaie poat uropped ms
car or ceased plying. The boat hacked Il
a barge near the shore aud within hv'
| minutes the eight big brawny falc fellow
were in tho arms OF their wildly enthu
siastic college chums.
Captain Ives arm was nearly shaker
of. He was cheered again and again. no
only for havina pulled an individually
brilliant race but for his management o
| the crew. which pulled an eNceedingl.
hard race; indeed. as some autboritie
put IL. the hardest race the Yale crew ha
rowed In years.
Cummings and Burgess were the mos
exhausted men in the Harvard boat. The,
sank to the bottom Of the shell for severn
minutes. but revived soon and were abl
TO take the she'll out.
| ro,s,daripg tho fierceness of the con