The record-union., 1893-07-01
Special to the REcoRD-USIoN.

special 10 IIlc IOEtORD-O MON
NEW LONDON Comm, June 3O.-The
great Varsity boat race between the Yale
and Harvard crews is now matter Of
the past.
With "Bric-ki-ki-ka" for Yale and
nine 'rahs for Harvard New London
awoke to its red-letter day of the year.
These cheers broke forth with the dawn
and punctuated with the cries of other
colleges, continued necessarily until after
the race. That tells the story of tho day
so far as the spectators were concerned.
1t was pre-eminently a day of noise
college yells, cheers, shouts and bedlam
the result of the annual Harvard Yale
boat race.
The town was early alive to the proceed
ings Of the day. The 1900 students who
had been staying here for the past week
and dressing themselves in their jaunt-
lest attire went down the streets to meet
$4,000 men and girls who arrived this
morning to see the great race.
Vessels of all sorts were on the water
and the houses OF the town were most
profusely decorated with the blue anO
crimson colors of the competing colleges.
At 10 O'Clock train Of forty observa-
ton cars pulled out of the depot and went
to the starting point, four miles above
town, amidst a pandemonium of yells
and college cries.
At the respective training quarters the
crews retired early and rose early. They
breakasted heartily, received private in
structions from their respective coaches
and passed the remainder of the morning
as suited them.
Yale's crew left their quarters first. Al
1925 o'clock their shell was lifted into the
by the chosen crew. Their row down tc
the start was brisk.
The Harvard oarsmen tramped to the
boathouse at 1875 o'clock and at 1880 had
! taken positions in their shell. They
rowed lazily to the start. Both eights
were on the line at IL o'clock sharp.
Yale's blue waved triumphantly al
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 in the balance by magniti-
cent equipoise.
Harvard had the lead but the pace was
too fast, and 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 were sending the boat along at one
of the strongest, most uniform and speed
lest rates ever traversed by a Yale shell,
The contest was terrible test of endur-
ance, especially when the light weight OF
the occupants in the rival shells is taken
into account.
A strong head-wind came up about
1910 o'clock, and blew a stiff breeze
squarely against 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 Of the
course had been traversed the surface OF
the Thames had been stirred into quite
formidable whitecaps, and a miniature
gale was blowing up the river valley, but
Yale sand, endurance and training won
the day.
Bob Books boys were outclassed at the
start by Harvard's sprightlier and more
effective stroke on the first mile, but it
was case of the survival of the fittest.
This was evident from the time Yale's
stroke began to tell at the end of the sec