The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-29
BOTH WON BY YALE
THE REGULAR VARSITY AND THE
FRESHMEN BOAT RACES.
Harvard Easily Defeated in the For
Beaten I'm the Triangular Contest.

NEW LONDON, Conn, June est was
o'clock this evening when the tug Man
'hansett, with every available space on
board crowded by newspaper men, started
up the river to view the beginning of the
great contest between the Yale and Har-
ward crews. The boats arrived at the start
ing point at 6:15 and lay there waiting for
the racing shells to put in an appearance.
The water was not quite smooth, but its
surface was unbroken even by the wind
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1t was 6:15 when the Harvard boat started
for the float Yale reached the starting
point a moment later, and the two boats
were quickly in place, side by side, ready
for the word. 1t came, and both sets
of oars struck the water together. Har-
ward started in with fast stroke, forty
To the minute. hoping to break Yales heart
in the first mile. Yale responded gamely
with thirty-eight strokes and kept right
abreast of Harvard. For furlong, perhaps,
the boats rowed nip and tuck: then the
long and stronger stroke of the sons of old
Eli began to tell and Yale drew away, At
the half mile she was already five seconds
ahead, full boats length, and her lead
steadily grew. At the mile Harvard's
stroke had dropped to thirty-six, while
Yale still kept on at the thirty-eight-rate
with which she started. Her lead grew
steadily and she passed the mile and half
nineteen seconds ahead of Harvard. Both
crews here began to reduce their stroke,
Yale dropping to thirty-six and Harvard
to- thirty-four. But while Yale's strokes
were deep and strong, Harvards work was
ragged.
After the first half mile Harvards men
were never in good stroke. Had they been
perfect oarsmen, however, they would still
have lost the race by their steering. From
the mile flag on the Harvard boat zig
Jagged across the stream in the most ex-
traordinary manner and finally struck the
two and a half mile Flagstaff. The crew
rallied bravely from the shock, but after
that were never in the race Cor a moment.
They put on a spasmodic squirt but their
stroke soon dropped back from thirty-six
to thirty-two, and they were hopelessly
beaten. Yale crossed the line in 1881, al
most minute in advance, Harvard's time
being 24:4O
Official time by miles: One mile. Yale.
go: Harvard 607. Two miles, Yale, II al;
Harvard, 1920 Three miles, Yale, 17:47;
Harvard 1885. Four miles, Yale, 23:47; Har-
ward, 24:40.
Yale Won by Two Lengths
NEW LONDON, Conn.,, June 2S.-The tri-
angular freshman race between Yale, Har-
Ndiu diiu OOluiilDid WdS TOWeQ at
o'clock this morning, and resulted in the
triumph of Yale; Columbia second, Harvard
third. While 1t had been agreed that Yale
should have the center course, with Har-
ward on the west and Columbia on the
east, the boys got confused in taking po-
sition and the boats were placed with
Harvard in center, Yale to the east and
Columbia to the west. The boats carried
no flags or distinguishing colors and their
change of position caused great confusion
to the spectators. nearly every one be-
lieveing that Columbia had won. Yale
took the water first almost without splash
while Columbia and Harvard simultane-
ously started on their two-mile course up
the river each doing considerable air and
water tanning on the first two strokes. By
the time the half-mile flag was reached
Harvard was a full length and a half
astern of Yale, and the Columbia oarsmen
had passed Yale by about one-half length.
In this manner they rowed for the next
quarter of a mile, when Yale took trine
faster stroke. At the mile Yale and CO.
lumbia were having as pretty a race as
could have been desired. At the mile and
a half Yale was well in the lead, and from
that to the finish the Columbus knew they
were beaten, but still fought well. Har-
ward was out of the race from the start
Yale won by two lengths. The winners
time was HIS; Columbias, III