The morning call., 1893-07-01


referees boat. and the oar blades. swung
by the regular crews-not substitute be-
ing in either boat-fairly clawed the water
in their anxiety to get away. Here YaIe's
practice in starting told ana the blue shot
ahead.
Only for an instant was the lead main-
tanned. The blue oars seemed almost
stagnant as the Harvard blades struck the
water and the crimson plow gliGed ahead
by a beautiful spurt. Yale's slow stroke
was hardly changed. Two hundred and
fifty wards from the first mile the crews
were pulling side by side, aud volley upon
volley of yels from land and shore
drowned the voices of the coxswalns In ex-
hortation to stand steady and keep up the
stroke.
just as Harvard struck what seemed to
be her winning lead, the eigh's circied the
point which had hidden the start from the
thousands of spectators on the observation
train.
When the situation was grasped the Har-
ward contingent were frantic. The Grim
son colors were ram pant and the strug-
Cling oarsmen just below the shore were
reused TO the sturdiest efforts by the thun-
ueTlDR yPIlS WHICH ItVtIUeIdlCo AAohA WV
Gr0ton shore in a resonant echo.
At the half-mile the Harvard boat was
moving at terrific though slightly un-
steady pace. The lead had been increased
to about ten yards, though Cummings, NO.
Z, and johnson. No. 2, were splashlng
badly. Cummings was powerful IN his
stroke. His efforts were perceptibly the
most vigorous of any member OF the boat,
but his BODY work was uneven and his
finish ragged.
From the half-me the honors were
even. The shells shot past the first-D,ile
stake with Harvard in the lead ey nearly
half length and her stroke strong. The
Y Yale pace was the traditional steady Cook
stroke, easy and graceful, but seemingly
losing about every dip. The wind in
creased in velocity here. and the contest
resolved itself into a test Of endurance.
The rugged breeze began to tell on the
Harvard boat. and the gap between the
crews lessened.
One hundred and fifty yards from the
mile-pnst the struggle for the supremacy
was fought out to desperate finish. Yale
moved along. closing gradually. and Har-
wards stroke faltered.
dred yards. Inch bv inch the boats evened,
and at the end of 100 yards by squirt the
crimson-tipped oars were in the rear.
Deafening shouts greeted Yale's great
effort, and the eighteen settled down to
tho grim question of the final test.
AS the one and g. half mile post was
passed Harvard's splashing increased. and
just beyond this point the Yale 0arsmen
seemed to have got their second wind and
to push their boat more viciOusly than ever
into the fierce headwind. Yale'so lead
grew, and opposite the station Gallaudat
hit up stroke to clinch the thing to the
winning lead. Harvard here. steadied a
trde. and as half the race was ended both
crews were rowing in the prettiest and
most unif manner. They were rowing
strong, though against a terrific wind.
At the mile post Yale's stern had reached
Hsrvard's PROV, and the Harvard sym
| pathizers began to realize that nothing
but an accident. a collapse in the Yale
boat or an unexpected squirt from Har-
ward, could save the day for Cambridge.
Over the next half mile the Splashing of
both was bad. The waves ran high and
offered the crews every inducement to be-
come 'rattled' and break their stroke in to
fatal disorder. Close by the two and a
half mile post Thomas. the Harvard cox
swain, exhibited some inferior work, and
the result was that the crimson shell
swung past the flag widely and in danger
Gus proximity to eel grass. Coxswan
Olmstead Of Yale hugged every post thus
far closely and thereby gained at least half
length for Yale. The Yale stroke be-
came easier as Olmstead saw that the Yale
lead had grown into two lengths.
At the two and half mile post, while
Harvard's exertions became manifestly
labored, Yale was catching the water
deeper than Harvard and splashing much
less. The waves were at their highest
along by the three-mi,e post. They dashed
against the shells so fiercely that the out
riggers of both were hit at nearly every
gust.
b. the three-mile flag. the long line OF
steamers and other craft closed behind the
boats passed, and every eve saw the race
was indlsputably Yale's. The blue boat,
three lengths in the lead,' was moving
beautifully. A clear course lay before it.
Cummings was doing notably desperate
work in the Harvard boat. His efforts
were commendable. though manifestly
mlsdirected. The starboard oars, how
ever. were noticeably ragged. The boat
went ahead by jerks, and all hope for a
crimson victory vanished.
In the Yale boat eight tireless oarsmen
were settling down to the iron finish. Gal
laudet was pale. but determined; his body
work was awkward. but his strokes caught
the Thames with unerring uniformity.
He was the nearest to approach to weak
ening in the Yale boat, and when the CON-
mand came from Captain Ives to make a
final brace Coxswain Olmstead stopped
over and dashed water in Gallaudets face
several times. It had the desired effect, and
the great stroke settled into his frmest
form. The stroke went up three points
and sent the shell down the homestretch
like machine.
Coxswain Olmsaead's aid to Gallaudet
cost Yale few yards. but it was not
noticed in the steady lead gained.
When the winning crew crossed the line
the din was deafening, every whistle in
town on the river. in the harbor, on the
railroads and at the factories added to
pandemonium, and the mighty cheers of
victory from thousands of exultaut Yale