The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-28
YALE BY THREE SECONDS.
"oid Eli" Wins the Triangular
Boat Race.
Harvard Made Game Showing But Was
Unable to Stand the strain-Yale's
Magnificent Squirt on the Homo
Observation-Disclosures Finishes q Weak
Third.

New LONDON, Conn.,, June 27.-Har.
wards freshmen eight-oared crew, con-
fdent OF victory, were defeated to-day
by Yale, while the Columbia WAS third
in the annual triangular race over two
miles Of Thames water. The weather
and water favored good race. A fair
southeast breeze was blowing up the
course over an incoming tide; heavy
clouds shaded the water. The attend
Ing steamers were we'll under control
and things indicated to good racing and
comfortable observation.
All three crews padded about below
the line until the referees whistle sum
moned Thorn to the stake boats which
lay with their sterns on tho starting
line just below the bridge.
Referee Guy Richards lined up the
crews while the veteran Adee stood be-
side him to do the official timing. At
1925 o'clock the word WAS given. Har-
ward first caught the water, Oolum bia q
ores flashed next, while Yale in the
middle course WAS ssgging back. Har-
ward on the Groton side and Columbia
on the New London side pulled each
half length head with side strokes.
This order was brief, however, Harvard
after her short starting stroke squared
away in On effort for the lead rowing
with forty strok es to the minute. This
told In feet and inches of difference
between the crimson and the blue, Har-
ward gaining on Yale and Yale over.
hauling and leading Columbia by an
equal distance at the quarter.
AS yet there WAS no clear water be-
tween the shells. Columbia grew rag
ged as she neared the first half mile and
1t became thus early evident that the
New York lads were outclassed By the
other two crews. Entering the second
halt of the fist half Columbia's bow
man caught crab and broke the fast-
enipg bar Of his row lock. Thence
onward the bow WAS load on the boat.
He was scarcely able to pull his weight.
There was distress, too, In Yale boat
No. losing his first wind and No. in
Harvsrd's she'll bucking his oar. The
crimson crew were sawteething from
side to side In ragged form.
Yale, though distressed, WAS pulling
along gamely at thirty-four strokes to
the minute as the shells passed the first
mile flags. She was then tapping Har-
ward by one-third OF length and her
time was ASS: One quarter of o second
later came the crimson she'll, while
Ooldmbia trailed over three clesr boat
lengths IN the rear In SIS. Thence the
race WAS Ysle's, though by An exceed
ingly slender margin. The closing OF
the race viewed broadly 30 that the dis
tress in neither Of the leading shells
WAS evident, WAS close and spirited.
The nesrness of Harvard to Yale kept
alive the crimson hope OF winning
squirt. 1t WAS not in the boat, however,
and Yale went over the twomile and
finish line in 10 IS from the start. Har.
ward crossed in 1898. length behind.
while poor Colum bis, with 9 disabled
ousrigger, finished in IL 1875 from the
start, about Bixteen lengths behind
Yale and fifteen behind Harvard.
The official time was: Yale, half.
mile, 2.2o; mile, 4 So; finish, 1928 Har-
ward, half mile. ais; mile, 90; finish.
1898. bia, hslf-mile, 2.25; mile,
SIS; finish, IL 1871.
The Harvard Varsity crew which
meets Yale on the Thames lnte to-
morrow afternoon. June 90. will enter
the race under conditions radically diff
ferent from anything crimson eight
has experienced In years. No Harvard
osrsman remembers crew from Cam
bridge that has worked harder or met
with more difficulties than the eight
that will struggle with the blue on til
day.
First and most important OF all, the
men have undergone system in train
Ing altogether different from that which
has been in vogue in Harvard for some
years, and il required constant atten-
ton and faithful application from every
member OF the crew to become thor.
oughlY accustomed to the new condi-
tions.
The average weight of Harvard g
eight is 160 pounds; height feet 10
inches; age, 81 years. Total weight of
the crew including coxswain LAOS
pounds. Yale's crew are veterans. All
but one OF them rowed in Yale's victo-
rious crew last year. Their average
weight is 1881 pounds, height feet
i0Hinches; age, 90 years. Total weight
OF crew including coxswain, 1895
pounds.
Captain Richard Armstrong, who
rows at the bow, is one Of the most
popular men in the college. He comes
from Hampton, Va, and has made
many friends in Yale. He made a
record for himself in football as we'll as
the eleven OF '93. lie graduated from
Andover, where he was prominent in
football and baseball.
He handled the bow oar on the '96
class crew, and will have experienced
the excitement of varsity race for
the third time in the coming race. He
is considered one OF the beat oarsmen
and strongest all round athletes In
Ya.e.
Plat Republican Appointed.