The morning call., 1893-07-01
Yale Lowers the COlOrs OF
Harvard.
YOUNG GIANTS in BOATS.
Making a Most Manful Struggle
for Supremacy.
WIND AND WAVE AGAINST THEM
1t Was in Some Respects the Great.
est intercollegiate Race Ever
Witnessed.
Special to THE MORNING CALI.

NEW LONDON, Conn. June 30.-Yale's
blue waved triumphantly at noon in her
third and the greatest victory of the week.
the annual Varsity crew race over the
historic four-mile course on the Thames.
1t was the hardest as we'll as the closest
race pulled by the great rivals for years.
and until the last half-mle was reached
the con test hung in the balance by a mag
nificent eauipoise.
With a "Bric-ki-ki-ka" for Yale and
nine 'rahs for Harvard. New London
awoke to the red-letter day OF the year.
These cheers broke forth with the daw D..
punctuated with the cries of other col
leges, and continued necessarily until after
the race. That tells the story of the day.
AS far as the spectators were concerned.
it was pre-eminently day of noise-cOl-
lege yels, cheers, shouts and bedlam-the
usual outcome of the annual Harvard
Yale boatrace.
The town was early alive to the proceed
ings of the day. Two thousand students
who have been staying here the past week
tumSled out of bed long before o'clock,
and dressing themselves In their jauntiest
attire went down the streets to meet $4,000
men and girls who had arrived this morn
ing to see the great race
Vessels of all sorts were on the water,
and the houses of the town were most pro-
fusely decorated with the blue and GRIM
sen colors of the competing colleges.
At 10 o'clock a train of forty observation
cars pulled out from the depot ana went
town. amid a pandemOnium of yells and
college cIes.
AT the respective training quarters the
crews retired early and rose early, break
tasted heartily, received private instruc-
| tions from their respective coaches and
passed the remainder Of the morning as ii
suited them.
did not sleep at all and kept the town
awake with their uproar until the "wee
sma' hours"
| No postponement. Of the race was found
necessary on account of the weather. and
the shells of the contesting colleges were
towed to the starting point early in the
| morning. At that time the course was
lined with people. the majority of whom
were onSpicuously the blue of Yale and
the crimson OF Harvard. The mem bers OF
the different colleges shouted their college
yells, and when once the boats started
their shrieks and whoops of encourage
ment and approval drowned all other
sounds.
/ Yale's crew left their quarters first. At
1925 o'clock the shell was lifted into the
water. and an instant later it was manned
with its chosen crew. The row down to
the start was brisk.
The Harvard oarsmen tramped to the
boathouse at 10:35 o'clock, and at 80
o'clock had taken their positions in the
she'll. They rowed lazily to the start.
The crimson and the blue lights were on
the line at II o'clock sharp.
Promptly at the appointed time the sig
nal to start was given, and simultan eously
sixteen sturdy backs bent and sixteen oars
took the water. Yale gained trif1e at the
start. while the wearers of the blue on the
banks yelled themselves hoarse. at the
end Of two miles Harvard had drawn up
even, and for half a mile the two crews
raced neck and neck. Then Harvard slowly
forged ahead as her crew slowly quickened
their stroke, bat the pace was too fast.
The crimson boat shivered, shuddered and
finally collapsed. after resigniDg the lead,
when the race was three-quarters over.
The blue oars. on the other hand, grew
steader with every stroke, and at the close
were sending the boat along at one Of the
strongest aud most uniform and speediest
rates ever traversed by the Yale shell.
The contest was terrible test of endur-
ance, especially when the light weight &C.
cupants of the rival shells were taken in to
account. A strong head wind came up
about 10 40 and blew stiff breeze against
the backs Of the crews and kept the time
nearly five minutes slower than the records
made by crews last year. Every instant
during the race the breeze increased, and
by the time half the course had been tray-
ersed the Thames had been stirred into
quite formidable whitecaps, and minia-
ture gale was blowing up the river valley.
but Yae's sand. endurance and training
won the day. Bob Cooks boys were out
classed at the start by Harvard's spright-
lier and more effective stroke on the first
mile.
Following is the personnel of the con-
testing crews:
Yale-Stroke. Edison F. Gallaudet, '9s.
Washington; Z. Sherwood Ives, captain.
'93. New York; 6. j. M. Longacre. '95,
Philadelphia; 5. j. M. Getchins, '94, New
York; g. A. l.. Van Dyck, '93. Lee, Mass. :;
2. E. l.. Messiet. '93. Pittsburg: bow, F. A.
Johnson. '9i. Norwich; coxswain. +. E.
Olmsted. '94. Hartford. Average age, % !;
height, feet II inches; weight. 1914
pounds.
Harvard-Stroke, E. n. Fennessy, '96.
Boston; z. c. K. Cummings. '93. Boston;
6, D. r. Vail. '93, Boston; 5. G. R. Year
ing, '93, Newport. r. l.; 4. L.. Davis, '94,
Boston; 3. NJ. Newall, '94, Great Barring
ton, Mass; 2, w. L. johnson. '94. Mime.
apolis; bow. G. F. Burgess. '93. Dedham;
coxswaiD, Victor Thomas, '94. Boston.
Average age, 2l; height. 5 feet II inches;
weight. 1854 pounds.
TOLD IN DETAIL.
The Story of the Great College Sport.