The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-28

was only an expressed interest In dual
race between Yale aud Harvard. Until
this time the bow oar OF our college skies
was also the steersman and worked the
rudder with his feet. In '76 the dual
races were started with eight-oa cared crews
and a coxswain. Until then, Cook asserts,
the intercollegiate races were big
hippodromes, and not until that year was
the rivalry developed which has made the
Yale Harvard race famous the world over.
Bob" Cook has coached every Yale
crew since '76, and AYERS that every year
Yale has stuck to his principles OF rowing
the crews have won, but that there were
years when the captains OF the crews had
ideas of their own and he allowed them
to substitute them for his. He
Is a man about five feet 8 inches
In height, about forty-fv years OF age,
weighs 1S5 lbs, and has black hair slightly
tinged with gray. He has . round, smil-
Ing face, which Is at oncs pleasing sne.
When conversing with reporter,
he usually does the interviewing, instead
OF being interviewed. He has happy
faculty OF talking continually and in
terestingly with q reporter for half an
hour, and it is remarkable how little he
has said on the main subject when he has
finished, providing 1t is anything about
the Yale crew.
Previous Races.
Bp Inc AssDCtutcu fTcS3.
NEW LONDON, Conn, June 2s.--The race
today between the Harvard and Yale
crews will be the nineteenth since the in
auguration in 1876, OF an annual eight
cared contest, and the thirtieth Of the
entire series in which the blue
and the crimson have struggled for
victory. The first eleven races
were rowed In six -oared boats over three
mile course. The first was in 1852 and the
three next followed at irregular intervals.
After 1864 one was had for each year, but
six cared boats were still used, and Ii was
not until twelve years later, in 1875, that
the present type Of eight-o cared shell was
adopted. At the same time the course
was heightened to four miles. The first
two OF the leig ht-oared races were rowed
at Springfield, Mass, one falling TO Yale
and the other to Harvard. Since then all
races have been held at New London, on
the Thames. OF the Is eight-oared contests
between the colleges Yale has won
eleven and Harvard seven. The fastest
time over the four mile course was 20 min
utes and 10 seconds, made by Yale in 1883.
The slowest time made by winner was
25 5minutes, 46h seconds, made by Harvard
in 1883. The average winning time is about
22 minutes and IL seconds. The race last
year was one of the most interesting in
the history OF inter collegiate contests.
Therival crews caught the water together
anu Nnie oo stiOhSo w tuc
minute, Harvard started OF at the killing
rate Of 40 strokes.
BY this she took the lead and kept 1t for
a mile and quarter. Then her men
began to show the effects of the strain
and Yale passed her, still pulling
at the same even rate with
which she started. Once behind
tho Harvard men, though fairly
pulling their hearts out, were unable tc
regain the lead or even TO close up
again. At times they could lessen the gap
and then Yale, by some weli-timed leg
work, would shoot still further ahead.
The time OF the winner, rs :01 Y sounds as
IL it were very slow, but this is explained
by the roughness Of the water and the
fact that there was a strong head wind
dead ahead. Under good conditions the
time should have been less than twenty
one minutes. The following table shows
the results of the series of eight -oared con.
tests between Harvard and Yale.