The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-29
BLUE VERSUS CRIMSON.
The Great Yale-HarVard Race to be
ROWed Tomorrow,
CROWDS GOING TO NEW LONDON.
Generally Conceded that Harvard's Crew
is tho Better, and Yet Good Judges
Think That Yale Will win-Arrange-
ments for Announcing the News.

NEW LONDON, Conn, June 29.--An
boating interest in New England centres
on the final college race of the season of
1893, the Yale Harvard Varsity contest on
the Thames tomorrow morning. Now
that the Freshmen events have been dis
posed of preparations arc being completed
for the acme Of college boating, the cul-
minating Varsity contest.
Yachts and all kinda of small sailing
craft are arriving in the barbor and incom-
ing trains bring new arrivals every hour.
That Yale will score another victory is
perhaps not the general opinion, but GER
tainly 1t is the sentiment Of the best judges
of the merits of the two crews now in the
city.
While the time made by Yale on her
four mile pull Tuesday was not as fast as
Yale coaches had expected, it was never
theless fairly good time as compared with
that which Harvard has made in practice
pulls Some old Harvard men who have
been here for several days are figuring that
Yale will win the race by 20 seconds.
The coaches, one and all, say that Yale
is improving every hour, and that while
the eight is not as good as Hartwelps
eight, 1t is, nevertheless. a fairly good
crew and ought to win.
Information of the crews down the
river will be given by telegraph and mill
tary signal corps. The Western Union
Telegraph company will have an operator
ON the shore opposite the starting point
and at each mile Gag. The lines of the
company are run along the railroad track
and the instruments will be cut in to con-
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there the wires will be looped in to Bos-
ton and New York and thus information
of the progress of the race will be flashed
over the country.
The work of announcing the progress of
the race to the thousands at the finish
line was done, up to few years ago, by
telegraph operators in the employ of the
New London Northern railroad, but that
was previous to the erection Of the
Thames river bridge, and when an i'm
mense observation stand was erected each
year at Winthrop Point Since the aban-
donment Of the grand stand no means
have been employed to indicate the posi-
tions of the crews.
This year tho citizens committee en-
Gagged the Third Regiment Signal Corps to
do this work. On the center pier OF the
bridge at the north end will be placed an
apparatus for hosting blue and red balls.
A signal man will be posted at the start
and each half mile Of the course.
As each crew leaves the boat house for
the start ball of corresponding color will
be elevated to half mast, and when the
crews take position at the start both balls
will be hoisted to the masthead. When the
crews start the balls will be dropped.
At each successive half mile the balls
will be raised, red or blue first, to indicate
the crew first across the line and allowed
to remain there for one minute from the
time the last ball 10 hoisted, when both
will be dropped together.
The observation train will consist of 40
cars, each car seating "a passengers. To
each of the two colleges II cars are sold
by the railroad company, and the other
six are disposed of to New Londoners and
people from elsewhere who engage seats
in advance.
For the third consecutive time the Yale
freshmen yesterday wen the annual trian-
gular boat race on the Thames by defeat
ing Harvard by eight and Columbia by
thirteen lengths, in the time 1923.
The only respect in which the result of
this years race differs from its two imme-
diate predecessors is that Columbia finished
a poor third while she has been able to de.
feat Harvard heretofore.