The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-01
The Blue Colors Are Victors in
the Boat Race.
IT WAS A GREAT CONTEST.
Authorities Put it the Hardest Race
ROwed for Years.
The Din When the Winner Crossed the
Line Was Deafening-Th Eight
Brawny Fellows Carried Away
BY Their College Chums.

With cries OF other colleges, continued IN |
until alter the race! That tells |
the story of the day so far as the specta-
tors are concerned. 1t was pre- minently
q day OF noise, college yells, cheers,
shouts and bedlam, the result of the an
nual Harvard Yale boat race. The town
was early alive to the proceedings OF the
day.
Two thousand pupils who have been
staying here the past week tumbled out
of bed long before O'Clock, and dressing
themselves in the jauntiest of attire. went
down the streets to meet 30, 900 men and
girls, who arrived this morning to see
the great race.
Vessels of all sorts are on the water and
the houses of the town are most pro-
fuseiy decorated with the blue and
crimson colors of the competing colleges.
At 10 o'clock train of forty observation
cars pulled out from the depot and went
to the starting points four miles above
town amidst pandemonium of yells and
college cries.
At the respective training quarters the
crews retired early, rose early, break
tasted heartily and received private in
structions from their respective coachers
and passed the remainder of the morning
as suited them. Yale's crew left their
quarters first. At 1925 their shell was
lifted into the water and an instant later
was manned by the chosen crew. The
row down to the start was brisk. Harry
ard oarsmen tramped to their boathous5
at 1925, and at 1850 had taken their po-
sition in their she'll, and rowed lazily to
the start. The crimson and blue and
both lights were on the line at II sharp.
Yale's blue waved triumphantly at
noon in her third and greatest victory of
the week. The annual varsity crew race
over the historic four mile course on the
Thames was the hardest as we'll as the
closest race pulled by the great rivals for
years, and until the last half mile was
reached the contest hung iii the balance.
Harvard had the lead, but the pace was
too fast; the Crimson boat shivered,
shuddered and finally collapsed after re-
signing the lead when the race was three
quarters over. The blue oars on the
other hand grew steadier with every
stroke, and at the close was sending the
boat along at one of the strongest, most
uniform and speediest rates ever tray
ersed by Yale shell.
The contest was a terrible test of en-
durance, especially when the light
weight of the occupants of rival shells is
taken into account. a strong head wind
came up about 10:40, blew a stiff breeze
squarely against the backs of the crews
and kept the time nearly five minutes
slower than the records made by the crews
last year. Every instant during the race
the breeze increased, and by the time
half the course had been traversed, the
Thames had been stirred into quite for
nidable whitecaps and miniature gale
was blowing up the river valley, but Yale
sand, endurance and training won the
day.
Bob Crook boys were outclassed at the
start by Harvard's sprightly and more
effective stroke on the first mile. 1t was a
case of the survival of the fittest. This
was evident from the time Yale's stroke
began till at the end OF the second mile
until the bows shot across the line at the
end OF the fourth mile, winner by four
lengths, and time, 25:011z.
Following is the personnel of the con-
testing crews: Yale-Stroke, Edison F.
Gallandet, 1913, Washington; z, Sher-
wood D. Ives, captain, '93, New York; 8,
]. M. Longacre, '95, Philadelphia; 8, j..
M. Goetchings, "a, S: New York; 8, A.
L. Messiet, 1913, S. Pittsburg; bow, F. A.
Johnhen, '94, s. Norwich; coxswain, f.
E. Olmstead, "a, S. Hartford. Average
age, %; height, feet, II inches; weight,
1873 pounds.
Harvard-Stroke, E. H. Fennessy, '96,
Boston; z, G. K. Cummings, SO, Bos-
ton; G., D. K. Vail, 1913, Boston; 5. G. r..
Wearing, SO, Newpart, R. L. "A, L. Davis,
'94, Boston; 8, M. Newhall, 1874, Great
'94, Minneapolis; bow, g. E. Burgess,
'93, Dedham; coxswain, Victor Thomas,
| '94, Boston. Average age, 81; heigth,
II inches; weight, 1881 pounds.
| When the winner crossed the line the
din was deafening. Every whistle in
| town, on the river and in the harbor, on
railroads and factories added to the pan
demonium, and the mighty cheers of vic
| tory from thousands of exultant Yalean-
Simans were drowned completely. Not a
man in the Yale boat dropped his oars or
ceased plying till their boat was backed
| to the barge near the shore and within
five minutes the eight big brawny Yale
| fellows We're in the arms OF wildly enthu-
siaStic college chums.
Captain Ives arm was nearly shaken
off. He was cheered again and again, not
only for having pulled an individually
brilliant race but for his management o.
the crew which pulled an exceedingly
hard race. Indeed as some authorize:
put it, the hardest race the Yale crew ha,
rowed in years. Cummings and Burgess:
were the most exhausted men in the Har
ward boat. They sank 10 the bottom fol
several minutes but revived soon an(
were able to help take the shell ashore.
/ Considering the fierceness OF the con
test and roughness of the water it is con
sidered almost phenomenal that not
member of either boat collapsed com
pletely even at the finish. The time, o
course, was necessarily the slowest mad
of late years. 1t, however, is remarkable
when the elements of wind and wave ar
taken into account.
The race was one of the finest ever seel
on the Thames. For the first mile tn
crews were separated by less than tn
third of boat length with Harvard in tn
, lead and it looked at first as though sh
would win the race. Her powerful an
rapid stroke sent her at a pace which Val
} couldn' t equal, but in that very thing la
. Harvard's defeat. The strain of he
furious pace was too much for the crew
When the oars began to splash and tn
: men began to go to pieces in the boa
Yale's magnificent form came to tn
front. Her shell crept on Harvards
soon they were even. Harvard put fort
final efforts to save herself but the me
, were not equal to the occasion.
The Yale shell glided gradually ahead
The men in the middle of the boat 500
saw the bow of their opponent. A fe,
} more strokes and there was water betwee
: the boats, and from thence on the victor
, of Yale was merely question OF time
She forged slowly ahead, and amid tn
blowing of horns, roaring of cannon
waving of flags and cheers of her SUI
Iporters, swept across the line with til
l Harvard four full boaslengths benin
/ her. AS soon as the crews passed tn
q IL L 4 l.