St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-29
EASY FOR The BLUES.
Yale Freshmen Win the Tri-
angular Boat Race by
Eight Lengths.
Harvard Leads Columbia Over
the Line by Five
Lengths.
YalenSianS Soon Take the
Lead, and Hold 1t All
the Way.
The Race One of the Fastest
Ever Rowed on the
Thames.

NEW LONDON, CUnll., JUn6 Zc.-rOr
the third consecutive time the Yale
freshmen today won the annual trian-
gular boat race OH the Thames by de-
feating Harvard by eight, and Columbia
thirteen lengths, in the time 1923.
The only respect in which the result
of this years race differs from its two
immediate predecessors is that
Columbia finished poor third
today, while she has been able
to defeat Harvard heretofore.
There was little betting here. Yale meu
recklessly offered odds of 8 to l on their
'95 crew. The money went crying,
however. All that was put up was on
the relative position of Harvard and
Columbia at the finish. Today was a
fitting precursor to the Varsity contest
of Friday. The long list of craft,
which now are filling the harbor,
lined upon the sides of the
course and the partisans of the
three coniesting colleges exhibited all
the patriotic enthusiasm of a university
instead of class contest. Yale luck
gave the boat with the blue-tipped oars
the best course, the central one. Har-
ward chose the west route and Column
bia was left to run the chances of being
run into the eel grass by possibly
careless coYswain along the east side.
The Start.
At 5:4S Referee Brooks gave the sig
nal and twenty-tour oars dropped into
the Thames. Columbia's start was
auspicIOus. Her boat shot ahead like a
dart. while Yale got away slowly. but in
fine shape, and Harvard splashed and
floundered aimlessly. Columbia's lead
was, however, destined to prove short
lived. Yale Drawn began to- tell and
with long and beautifully regulated
strokes, the shell containing Bob Cooks
disciples crept to the lead. A hundred
yards from the start Columbia and Yale
were tied and Harvard few feet be-
hind. Columbia and Harvard's COM
pany proved too slow for Yale at this
iuncture of the contest, and the blue oars
began digging into the water for lead,
which increased with every yard that
was.traversed to the goal by the naval
station. AS the half-mile flags were
passed Yale had secured what is, under
ordinary circumstances, winning lead
three lengths.
Columbia was still dipping fast but
lead over the crimson. Even at this
point the race resolved itself intoa fight
for second place. just above the half
mile flag the Harvard eight was slowly
riding up the course in the steam yacht
Cora. A yolley of
Harvard Cheers
from the varsity oarsmen inspired the
freshmen, and new life seemed infused
into the red boat. The gap between
the two rear boats closed up like a
flash. and the race to escape tall-ender'S
disgrace became fierce.
Yale was five lengths ahead at tho
mile post, and Harvard had worked out
a lead of length. Here Harvard set
tied down to mile OF tue prettiest,
though far from the most effective, oars
manship ever exhibited by freshman
eight on the Thames. Yale's lead
was constantly increasing over
both her rivals, and Harvard
was also continually drawing away
from Columbia. At the mile and half
Harvard had two lengths lead over the
Columbia crew, while Yale was swing
ing away with rythmlc and .aggravat-
ingly easy-lOOking stoke, six lengths in
the lead. Half mile from the finish
the race was decided. and Yale and
Harvard rowed with the assurance OF
victors. strong and steady.
In the Columbia boat, with grim de-
feat in the triangular race closing IN
upon them, and weird recollection OF
disastrous encounter with Courtney's
Cornell's freshman proteges and staring
the
Eight Struggling Oarsmen
in the face, desperation seemed to over
take them, and they pulled like galley
slaves. Their efforts were frultless.t they
spiashed badly and sent the boat ahead
by Jerks. and finally ended by one Of
the most ludicrouSlY pathetic catas'
trophies ever recorded as Detailing
crew here. Sturgis, No. z, caught a
crab. lost his balance as we'll as his
oar, twisted his feet loose from the
stretchers and fell Off his seat back into
the lap of Carter. No. 6. The latter
showed SturgIs back. and luckily only
momentary confusi0ns resulted. The
three crews crossed the finish with Yale
thirteen lengths ahead OF Columbia, the
rear boat, and Harvard five lengths be-
fore Columbia and eight behind Yale.
Yale rowed in slowly, with no apparent
designs OIL record breaking.
The official time is as follows: Yale,
1928; Harvard, 10:47; Columbia, ll:U2.
Yale's first half-mile was made IN 2:l5.
1t is one of the fastest ever roWed on
the Thames. The following persons
acted as officials OF the race: Referee,
William IL Brooks. of Harvard: timer,
George A. Adee, or Yale;' judges, for
Yale, AL Cowles, captain of '96 crew;
for Harvard. Mr.. Waterous; for Colum-
bia, j. V. ID. Demorest.
The Great Race.
All boating interest in New England
centers In the Yale-Haryard varsity
contest Friday morning. That Yale
will score another victory Is perhaps not
the general opinion, but certainly it is
the sentiment of the best judges of the
merits of the tRD crews now in
the city. The plan carried out
last year for keeping the course
clear of all Instructions will be observed
on Friday. Only the press steamer and
referees yacht will be allowed to follow
the crews. The race on Friday will be
the sixteenth that has taken place on
the Thames. ard the eighteenth OF the
eight-oar series. Yale has won ten and
Harvard seven times. Since 1885 Yale
mas lost but one out of seven.
st. Paul Park Nan Gets II.
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