The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-28
THE BLUE AGAIN YICTORS
YALE DEFEATS THE COLUMBIA
 IND HARVARD CREWS.

Yale Does the Two Miles in 1O;2s-Har
 yard Comes in Second and Columbia 2
 Bad Third.
 New London, June 27.-The annua
 triangular boat race between the fresh
 man crews of Yale, Harvard and Co-
 lumbia over the two mile Thames course was rowed this morning It re-
 suited as follows
 Yale was first, time 1928.
 Harvard second, time 109S.
 Columbia third, time 11:1S1s.
 The race was scheduled for 9:30 o'clock
 but following the example set at
 Poughkeepsie, it was not started until
 an hour later. Yale's crew were the first to reach the start. Leaving their quarters at Gales Ferry shortly after 9:30, they came down the river in their
 launch with their light paper shell in tow. Once at the float near the start
 it took them but a moment to get into
 their shell, after which they padded
 about, limbering up their muscles.
 A few minutes later Harvard's fresh men came down from Red Top in the same manner, with their cedar shell in
 tow, and lastly, at about 1O15 o'clock,
 the Columbia men arrived at the start. l They lost no time in getting into their shell. Then a long wait occurred while
 three stake boats were put in position,
 and the course cleared of the many boats which had drifted into it..
 1 The crews were called to the stake | boat at 10:30 o'clock. They stripped In
 a jiffy, and after a few words of in- struction from Referee Richards they | heard the word "Go" at 1035:25 o'clock.
 All the twenty-four oars seemed to catch the water at the same time, and Columbia, starting off with pret- | ty spurt showed to the front, with | Harvard a trifle behind, and Yale last by perhaps a quarter of a length But 1 Columbias lead was short lived, Har- yard rowing in perfect form and hitting up their stroke to forty, shot gradually ahead The aYle boys also soon fell Into their real form, and before twenty strokes had been rowed, had good three-quarters of boat lengths lead on Columbia, and were only half a length behind the crimson.
 In this way. except for the fact that Columbia was steadily falling behind, llAt GtGN0 .SpCd Oll u lAlE III AiAA iAlA1f Harvard rowing a stroke of forty-one and Yale stroke of thirty-seven. They passed the half with Harvard leading by three-quarters of a length and Yale length and half behind Columbia.
 Just as the half was reached Column bias bow oarloek snapped and Captain Pierpont had to stop rowing. He ad- justed his oar in a moment but the ac- cident cost the light blue a good two lengths. and from then on the race was dual one.
 Soon after the half was passed Yale raised her stroke to thirty-nine, and amid tremendous cheers from her ad- herents began to crowd upon Harvard. Harvard realized it, and fell to with vim, hitting their stroke up to forty two. In doing so, however her men lost their form, and the blades began to splash first on one side and then on the other side of the fragile cedar shell.
 Yale, with her long swinging stroke, her men swinging easily and in unison, and her blade work superb inch by inch, foot by foot, crawled upA and when she shot between the two white flags at the mile her bow oar was on
 
 Satisfied with this lead of half a length the blue again dropped her stroke, but only q point. Observing the form in which the two crews were rowing 1t was then easy to see that the victory lay with Yaie. But the Harvard youngsters were game. Up still high CT went their stroke, until they were pulling forty-four to the minute, and slowly but surely the crimson shell crawled up on that of Yale.
 At the one and one-quarter mile the crimson had gained so that they were almost abreast of their rivals. Yale | however, seeing this, again raised her stroke and within a few strokes re- gained her lead. With Harvard pulling | a high stroke and Yale rowing easy, the | two crews went on to the one and three | quarters mile, Harvard sometimes | quarter sometimes half and again | of length behind, and | then came the final spurt.
 The Yale boys lay back on their oars | like so many giants, and throwing their | full power on to their oars showed what | they could do. Though they seemed to | be pulling, if anything, with less effort | than before, there was more power ap- piled, and their shell shot ahead at speed which astonished even the ex- perts. Harvard, too, laid on all their power, but, unfortunately, their power had been spent, and. dropping gradually behind, there was an open half-boat length of water between the boat of their shell and the rudder of Yales when amid waving of flags, the boom- ing of cannon and the cheering of all, the judges pistol announced that the blue was once more victorious. Yale finished very fresh and Harvard was not greatly exhausted.
 The two crews had almost gotten out of their shells into their launches when poor Columbia, crippled and tired, came n fifteen lengths behind. Her crew was game, and had made the best of hopeless struggle, but even barring heir accident they were clearly out ,lassed, their ragged work both within md without their boat making them no match for their rivals.
 Yale's victory was something of a surprise, as the spectators had confi- lently expected to see the crimson on op this year. She won the race strictly m it's merits, however, and pulled one # the prettiest races ever seen on the Thames. When the Columbia coaches anne down after the race it came out