The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-27
YALE'S VICTORY.
The Freshman Race at New
London Almost a Record
Breaker.
COLUMBIA CREWS MIsHAP
Shameful Behavior of an Excur-
sion Steamer-The New York
College Shell Nearly
Swamped.
COLUMBIA CREWS MISHAP

NEW LONDON, June 27, 1S95.-Yale
'9S won the triangular ale-Harvard-Co-
lumbia Freshmen race this morning by
less than one length, Harvard finishing a
close second and Columbia weak third
Columbia took the lead at the start
Harvard passed her less than 100 yards
! from the beginning of the race and held
the lead till just as the mile post was
passed. Yale then secured a slight lead,
but Harvard apparently pulled again and
led till the last mile. Then Yale made a
| heroic squirt and finished a winner in tse
closest race ever rowed here and in the
hardest freshman race known.
The official time follows
Yale. 1928: Harvard, 1898; Columbia.
111s11a
Yale pulled uniformally a 3S stroke.
to 40
Harvard's work was a surprise, after
the changes in the boat within a fort
night. Yale, however, proved equal to
the emergency and pulled the race from
the fire when it seemed almost in the
grasp of the crimson. Less than a
| length separated the Yale and Harvard
boats at all times during the contest.
| their path upstream side by side.
| Columbia made feeble showing, but
| for excusable reasons. They We're fif-
| teen lengths behind at the finish, and
after the first quarter mile had ceased
| to be factor in the struggle
| The time was the lowest made by
Freshmen on the Thames in years, al
though not record breaker The phe-
gave the Cornell Freshmen their victory
eight years ago and established a record
| were lacking today. otherwise it is safe
| to say that the Cornell time of 947 would
have been lowered.
| The only unfortunate incidents of the
| race was the m.shaps of the Columbia
Freshmen crew. Just as the first mile
was being completed the bow oarJocK
broke Captain Pierpont, who had been
pulling a sturdy oar in that position,
| had to STOP Columbia was heneesorth
out of the race.
The boat swung off it's keel and shot
ahead with a jerky, unsteady, unbal-
anced acceleration. while half the oars
| in the bow were tempted into intermit-
| tent splashing. Captain Pierpont work
ed distressfully to relieve the situation.
1
| for a time and evidently meditated leap
| ing overheard to tighten the boat. but
| finally struck his oar behind his broken
| lock and finished the race, pulling an
| improvised, but none the less heroic oar.
| Columbia's second catastrophe was
equally fatal, but less accidental. Just
after passing the milep ost the steamer
Block Island the biggest of the lumber
/ with re
tfollowed the boats up steam, disregarded
| the orders of the referees boat and
steamed ahead of everybody. The press
| boat was placed in total eclipse, the
| judges boat was almost entirely shut
| off from view of the crews and the Co.
| lumbia's boat rocked dangerously on the
crest of the waves dashed up by the
swash of the side wheeler. Columbia was
practically swamped.
The stroke was broken up, the boat
nearly filled with water and an accident
| of the type recorded in the collision of
Governor Morton's tug with the Penn
sylvana shell at Poughkeepsie was mar
rowly averted.
Indignation is intense over the neglect
| full action of the Block Island and If 1t
| is possible to punish the management of
| the boat the New London Board OF
| Trade will unite with the crews here
| to .nfiict the extreme penalty.
| The boats We're off at 1924. At ten
| o'clock half a dozen passenger steamers
as many small yachts and scores of les
ser craft were lowering about the big
drawbridge The boats were delinquent,
Yale appearing first, only few minutes
behind time, Harvard next, and Columbia
!, a tardy last.
| Columbia's was the favorite position,
| the west side; Yale, the middle, and Har-
wards the east course along the line of
| the bugaboo eel grass. Yale's boat started
directly from the central pier of the big
| drawbridge.
| A threatening sky, strong southeast
wind and fair tide were the condi-
tons that greeted the oarsmen as they
| headed their shells up stream. The
river at the start was comparatively
smooth but the breeze freshened near
| the finish and the final half mile was
dashed over through a caoppy sea-
| Five minutes were consumed by Ref