The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-01
YALE WINSONCEMORE
Harvard's Varsity Crew Badly
Beaten Ct New London.
ca'Msons COLLAPSED.



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NEv LosDox. June 3n-With "Brich-
ks-ki-ka' 10. Yale and the nine s'Rsh" for
Harvard. New London awoke 70 the red
letter day Of the year. These cheers broke
forth with the dawn. and. punctuased
Win the cries Of other colleges. continued
ineesssntiy until after the race. That
seiis the story OF the day - far ~ the
spectators are concerned. Il vas pre-
eminensiy day OF noise. college yelis.
cnsefs. shouts and bedlam, - the result OF
the annual Harvard Y ale race. The town
was early alive 20 the proceeding Of the
oay. and 2000 students who had been stay
ing here the past week, tumbled out Of
oed long before . o'clock, and dressing
themselves in their jauntiest attire, went
down the streets 70 meet the 5000
men and girls who arrived this
morning 20 80 the great race.
Vessels Of all sorts we're on the water and
the houses Of thu town were most pro-
fuseiy decorated with blcs and crimson.
the coiors of the competing colleges. At
10 o'clock train Of forty observation cars
pulled ont from the depot and went 70 the
starting point. four miies above town.
amidst pandemonium Of yslls and col
leee cries.
At their respective training quarters the
crews retired early. rose early and break
tasted heartily. received private instruc-
tons from their respective coachsrs and
passed the remainder Of the morning a.
suited themselves. Yals's crew left their
quarters 6rst and ct l0:25 their shell Was
lifted into the water and manned BY the
captain and crew. The row down 70 the
start WAS brisk. The Harvard carmen
tramped to the boathouse at lO:25 and at
1850 had taken thsi Pposition in the she'll.
They rowed Justify to the start The
crimson and blue we're on the line 1t IL
O'Clock sharp. ana Yates blue waved tri-
umphantly 1t noon in her third and
greatest victory Of the week. The annual
varsity race over the historic four
miles course on the thames was the
hardest. a. well a. the closest, race
pulled by the great rivals for years. and
until the last half mile Was reached the
contest hung in the balance. The con-
test was . terrible test Of endurance,
especially when the light weight Of the
account A strong headwind came up
aboat 1910 O'Clock. and blew .
stiff breeze subsequently against the
backs Of the crews, keeping the time
nearly Eve minutes slower thsn the re-
cords made by the crews last year. Every
instant during the race the breeze in.
creased, and BY the time the course had
been traversed the Thames was being
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miniature gale was blowing up the river
valley, but Yale sand. endurance and
training won the day.
The race Was one Of the finest ever seen
on the Thames. For the first mile the
crews were separated BY less than .
third Of o hoat's length. Harvard
first ~ though she would win the race.
Her powerful and rapid strokes sent her at
. pace which Yale could not equal, but in
that very thing lay Harvasd's defeat. The
strain Of her furious pace was too much
for her crew. The oars began to
splash and the men began to 60
20 pieces in the boat. Yale's mag
nifcent form came TO the front then. Her
she'll crept on Harvard's. Al soon as they
were even Harvard put forth final effort
TO the occasion. The Yale shell glided
gradually ahead. and the men In the mid
die Of her boat soon saw the bow of her
opponents A few more strokes
and there was open water between
Of Y ale was merely one Of . question Of
time. She forged slowly ahead and, amid
the blowing OF horns and the roar of can
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her supporters, she swept across the line
With the Harvard four full boat lengths
behind her. Time: Yale, 250OX: Har-
ward. 25:ia
The din that followed was deafening
Every whistle in town, and on the river
and in the harbor and Of locomotives and
factories, added to the pandemonium. and
the mighty cheers Of victory from thou
sands Of exultsnt Yale men were drowned
completely. Not . man in the Yale
boat dropped his oar or ceased
piyine their oars til the boat was back to
the barge near the shore. and within five
minutes tho eight brawny Yale fellows
were in the arms Of their wildly enthusi-
astic college chums. Capt. Ives arm was
nearly shaken of and he was cheered
again aud again, not only for hav-
race, bus for his management Of the crew,
which pulled an exceedingly hard race.
Indeed, as some authority put ii, it was
the hardest race tho Yale crew r,wed in
wears. Cummings and Burgess were the
most exhausse,. men in the Harvard boat.
They sank to the bottom for severa. min
utes. but revived soon aud were able 10
heln take the shell ashore. Considering
the siesceness OF the contest and the
roaghness of the water. IL 10 considered
almost phenomenal that not 4 member OF
either boat collapsed completely even at
the nnish. The time of the course was
necessarily the ssowest made OF late years
Hosever. is was remarkable when the eIe-
inents. Wind and waves. are taken into
consideration. The crews who par,ic.-
ps;ea were ~ follows;
yALs.
rasttias Acxs Cas-
8e~-F A. John.on. o. Norwich. .....f ,ss
No 2~-g l. xessis. OF Fst,asagg. .........,. IssI
No. S-A ]. Nan Huycs. o. Lev. Aass ..... lsa3
Nh "a. T. H. gers. of New ! erk ..........-.3s4
M 81 NJ tssscsehias ~ Ne. l0gK ~ !ss,
No al. NJ Loasrses, OF faiiaae, pa a -..- Isss
Ne sherwood u. lses. espssE. OF New
Yarx ...........,......... -. ..,....lsss
ssroks-EGisoa I. Gsllances, OF Washington
cexw.sn-T. u oims,s.d. Hartford. .isas
Average age, IS. average height. feet II
incses; average weight. 1914 poandA