The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-29
OLD ELI GETS THERE AGAIN.
THE HARVARD CREW NEVER IN 1T
IN THE RACE WITH YALE.

ShGFpt SpecuEs " men II chOulu
Have Bcen Useless and Ragged
ContinualIy-YaIe Kept the Race
Well in Hand From start TO Fin
ish.
New London, June 2s.-Yale won the race
between Il and Y lengths. The official time
was: Yale 2l;5o. Harvard 22:05. Yale took
the lead at the start and led all the time.
Harvard tried to spurt three times, but
in vain. The time is as follows: One mile,
Yale. 5:O4; Harvard, $40. Two miles. Yale
1921; Harvard. 1898. Three miles, Yale
1888; Harvard, 1921. -Four miles, Yale,
1880; Harvard. 22:05. Yales stroke through
out was SO, Harvard's was unsteady, vary
ing from % to Sc. Harvard's steering was
pitiable and resulted in narrow escape
from collision with a steamer and another
square crash with row boat. Rough wa
ter on the third mile prevented an ap-
proach to record time.
The race completed a clean sweep for
Yale in the past college year, the foot
ball, base ball, track athletics, and crew
championships for 1925 now standing to
her credit. To-day's event closed years
experiment with Harvard. With the in
auguraton of the system of practical pro-
fessiOnal coaching at Cambridge, a new
aquatic era was thought TO be inaugurated
for the crimsons. To-day the results of
Coach Watson's work was TO be put TO
the test, but the trial was not fair one.
Harvard has so frequently advanced the
plea of hard luck" that a repetition of
the plant at present seems useless, but in
justice to the crimson, a wide mantle of
charity is her legitimate due.
With the Cambridge boat house closed
fortnight in the middle o. the crucial
training season and a member of the
boat taken from the waist OF the shell,
three days before the race, the misfor-
tunes Of several seasons seem crowded in
to one. Critically judged Harvards exhibit
ton this afternoon was not meritOrious.
The stroke was slow when il should have
been sharp, speedy when it was needless.
but ragged continually.
The coxswain's errors, too, were atroci-
Gus. They caused Harvard TO lose the
benefit Of the current where trade winds"
might have counted, ran the Harvard shell
into the heavy swash Of one steamer and
jammed its prov alongside into row boat
at the finish
Whatever virtues or faults the Yale crew
may have possessed, no great opportunity
to display them was afforded in to-days
procession. Yale was judiciOus and ran
no risks. In consequence, the race was
record time. but no chances were taken
in winning the race.
Number four of Harvard was the weak
est spot in the crimson boat, and the stroke
of Yale started out badly, but struck his
gait before he had time to do any mis-
chief. Clark, the Yale coxswain, took the
Thames current on the course like a ma
tive New Londoner. He lost hardly foot
by in1udicious rudder's Swerying and
gained a strong point for his boat
by getting the most tidals
from the Yale waterway. Rust
evinced an affection for the east shore.
He hugged too closely for two miles, prov
ed tickle later steering the Harvard shell
over a semi circular course toward the
middle of the river but not quickly enough
to dodge encroaching craft.
Just after the three and half mile
post was passed the Harvard shell came
suuarely on the swash of the small sseam-
er Isabel, which recklessly set her paddle
wheels in motion 10 draw aside. Harvard
lodged the steamer, but was tossed around
helplessly in the swash for several Sec
onds The Harvard shell had barely clear
ed the finish when it's second accident
happened rowboat had ventured out
into the channel and the Harvard cox
swain failed to avoid it, The Prov just
missed the rowboat, but the two crafts
clashed together. Both were almost over
turned, but the Harvard Shell eXtricated
herself and escaped.
A single record was broken to-day, the
two mile distance in a four mile competi-
tion. The champion SS crew of Capt.
Stevenson covered the distance in 1875.
To-day Capt. Armstrong; men made II
in 1915.
The race evolved another instance of
athletic heroism. When the crews struck
heavy water on the last mile and
half Langford, Yales stroke, sprang his
oar lock, and in a struggle to replace 1t,
wrenched his righ arm and shoulder Sc
verely. He pulled the race faultlessly and
when the order came to cease rowing,
cramps doubled his arm to his body. He
could not use the member till DR.. Hartwell
and Capt Armstrong had worked over
him for a quarter of an hour. He must
have suffered intense pain during the last
mile.
The day was attended with all the usual
picturesque incidents. The crowd which
remained small throughout the morning,
owing to a brisk shower, rattened to i'm
posing proportions between noon and at
O'Clock, and there Is no room to
doubt the claim of New Lon
doners that 10000 people witnessed
the race. Half that number were visitors.
The start was set for 4:45 o'clock. The
shells drfted slowly into place, and at
4:44. without a sign of a false start or
delay Referee Reeves voice gave the
decisive. word, and the needle-like shells
got out from under the lee of the bank
into the open channel. SO pretty start
was never seen here.
Except for Langford's eccentricities,
there was no splashing in either boat, and
in spite of it the Yale she'll spun steadily
TO first place Yale swung into symme-
try form at once and pulled one Of the
fastest half miles ever rowed by var
sitv crew in a four-mile race here.
Harvard was rowing in as pretty form
as could be desired, but, strange to say,
was pulling a slower stroke than Yale.
Stroke Langford nit the Yale stroke up
to "a for the opening spurt, but Capt.
Bullard, evidently acting under directions
from Coach Watson, rowed as slowly as
20 While the crimson shell was moving
along gracefully Yale was pounding out
a lead over two lengths for Harvard's
announcement at the half-mile stake.
Harvard seemingly made no attempt to
close up and the Yale boat was driven
ahead to a safe lead at the very beginning.
II is always possible to put one finger on
the spot of a race wnere the struggle for
sunremacy is fought out and settled
vale made the fight for the battle at the
verv start and had a winning lead when
+be half-mile flag waved. Not a man
dropped in either boat after the finish.
srhe vale crew fearing q collision of the