The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-06-29
YALE AGAIN VICTORIOUS.
UINS THE GREAT 'YdRsTTY RAGE WITH EAsE-HaRYARD NoTIS IT.
A Great Day for Young Yaie-Immense
 Enthusiasm-Tho Story of tho Race . Graphically Toid-Tho Victorious Crew.
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General Details.
 Special to TIE JOURNAL AND CouRIERl New London, June 28.-Another fu- neral march to m accompaniment of yacht cannon and steam whistles has
 taken place on the Thames, and, as usual, Harvard was in the rear carriage. It was the most enormous defeat that Yale has inflicted on the Harvard oars men since the great race of 'ss, when the blue was victorious by almost forty lengths and broke the record. This vic- tory of the varsity, the freshman tri- umph of this morning and yesterdays yacht race have placed Yale supreme as mistress of the water. Such q crush ing triple defeat should i'll New Haven with celebration tonight.
 The victory was no more than Yale men expected month ago, but since that time the Yale coaches have run down the crew, according to their gene ral custom, until they have made the college men believe them and give up all hopes of an easy victory. Yet an easy victory it undoubtedly was. From the first instant the oars struck the water until the finish Harvard was in no manner in danger of winning the race. Even the most hopeful Cam bridge man gave up all hope after the first mile flag was passed, and watched with dismay to see how many lengths Yale was going to put between her and his favorites. There is not the slightest doubt that Harvard deserved her de- feat, however much or little Yale may have deserved her victory. Such a | crew has not represented Harvard in years, and the exhibition of rowing they gave was pitiful. After the second mile | was passed there were not two men
 in the Harvard shell pulling together. Purdan, the bow oar, was pulling way
 out of the boat and completely out of | time, though for that matter there was I almost no time. Bullard, at No. ?, was even worse. He was the first man in
 the boat to give up, losing his form after | the first mile and never making on ap-
 proach to good rowing for the rest of the
 race. The port side of the boat
 did better than the starboard, and
 the rear of the boat did better than the
 bow. Kales, the Al pound stroke, is
 clearly a failure except in his ability to
 Init up" the stroke. His oar simply
 dipped into the water and came out
 without pulling pound. He was
 simply passenger in the boat. The
 coxswain caught the oontagion and lost
 his head completely, taking the crew all
 over the course and losing many lengths.
 The notable exception was Fennessy,
 No. 7, who is by far the best oar on the
 Thames. He really set the stroke and
 pulled & powerful and finished oar to
 the finish.
 On the other hand the, Yale eight
 rowed with the confidence of viotors,
 and seemed to be bent on doing the
 thing as carefully and, completely as
 possible. In the second halfsmile they
 caught some bad waves and splashed
 considerably, but with this exception they rowed perfectly. Johnson set Q
 fine stroke, and every man from him
 to Armstrong followed it as it
 should have been. The race was not of Q nature to test the ability of the men
 to any great extent, or to o'abring out
 their faults.
 New London has seldom seen so small
 number of visitors during the racing
 season, even the attraction of two races | in one day failing to bring the attend %o tho IJo | yard men regarded the races as hope
 less and did not dare to witness another defeat. The scarcity of crimson flags
 was remarkable, there being fully twice | as many Yale supporters present, and 1 there were hardly as many of these as l usual.
 By far the greatest crowd that has ever come to the races in body was that brought down by the Richard Peck. At about o'clock she steamed | up the harbor, past the docks where the l smaller steamers were receiving their passengers. She was completely loaded
 down, every deck Icing black with peo- pie, and scarcely thing but blue sban-
 ners could be seen. The Block Island brought down big load from Norwich l and took on all the passengers she
 could hold at New London. When the
 race was on and the people were crowd ed on one side it seemed as If she might l tip over at any moment. The City of Worcester took another large party. At 5:3O the observation train with it's thirty-four cars came down in front of | the depot, and the crowd focked to these, filling them in few minutes. The excursion steamerstbegan to start out shortly before o'clock for the river. At this. time there was scarcely wind enough to float'the flags, and the water was very smooth. There were about as ! many boats anchored in the river as l usual, making lane about a mile long before the finish. The Luzerne Luding- ton, which carried the Rovers, and the
 Richard Peck had good positions. The
 judges boat, the .Embla, the Helvetia, l which carried the referees and time- keeper, and the press boat Manhasset
 steamed slowly up to the starting point l and waited. The observation train got into position early, profiting by last years mistake. Herman CeirichS was referee. The timekeepers were George Adee for Yale and Fred Watriss for Harvard. Judges, Robert Cook for Yale and N. T. Perkins for Harvard.
 Yale's crew was the first to appear. It put out from the boathonse at 6:27. The oarsmen at Red Top were watching for them, and at 6:31 they started out, after receiving some parting advice. They reached the starting place at 6:35, and Yale lined up beside them a minute later. Yale had the poorer east course, and Harvard had the west. About this time the wind freshened and the water s,,f fas,, aA, S4kiAt,