The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-29
YALE'S CLEAN SWEEP
Completed blythe Defeat
of Harvard in the
Boatrace.
GREAT TIME Is MADE.
Beginning With Superior
Start the Lead Gradually
Increased.
Two.M1LE RECORD LOWERED
Men Of the Crimson Color Make a
Gallant Struggle, but Are
Badly Beaten.

NEW LONDON, Conn.,, June 28.-Yale
won the race to-day. Clean and steady
Craftsmanship shot the Yale shell down the
four-mile course from Gales Ferry to the
drawbridge, beginning with superior
start, continuing with steadily increas-
ing lead over the entire course and culmin-
ating with an aggravatingly easy finish at
the four-mile stake.
The race completed a clean sweep for
Yale in the past college year. the football,
baseball, track athletics and rowing cham
pionships for 1895 now standing to her
credit. Harvard's exhibition was not
meritorious. The stroke was slow
when it should have been sharp,
speedy when it was needless, but
sagged continually. The coxswains er-
rors, too, were atrocious. They caused
Harvard to lose the benefit of the current,
and when 'trade Winds might have
counted he ran the Harvard shell into the
heavy swash of one steamer and jammed
it's bow into rowboat alongside at the
finish.
Whatever merits or faults the Yale crew
may have possessed no great opportunity
to display them was afforded them in to-
days procession. Yale was judicious and
ran no risk. A single record was broken
to-day-the two-mile distance in four
mile competition. The champion 'Ss crew
of Captain Stevenson covered the distance
in 1926. To-day Captain Armstrong; men
made it in 1921.
The day was attended with all the
usual picturesque incidents. The crowd,
which remained small throughout the
morning owing to brisk shower, fattened
to imposing proportions between noon and
O'Clock and there is no room to doubt the
claim of New Londoners that 80, 900 people
witnessed the race. Half that number were
visitors.
To dispose of the race before the favor
able midday conditions of wind and tide
were lost, the officials of both crews sci
the hour to start at 4:45 o'clock, fifteen
minutes earlier than had been announced
All the excursion steamers, the observa.
ton trains and the press boat Manhansett
cleared the dock at o'clock. They were
in place at 4:30, the exact minute
when both crews appeared. Harvard rowed
across the river to the starting stake
exactly opposite. The stroke was pretty
and every member of the boat was in per
feet form. Yale padded down the river
slowly, as if economical of muscle. The
shells drifted slowly into place, and at A
o'clock, without sign of false start Of
delay, Referee Rives' voice gave the de-
cisive word and the needle-like shells go
out from under the lee bank into the oper
channel. A prettier start was never seer
here. The Yale she'll spun steadily to frs
place and pulled one of the fastest hal
miles ever rowed by varsity crew in &
four-mile race here.
Harvard was rowing in as pretty form
as could be desired, and, strange to say
was pulling a slower stroke than Yale
Stroke Langford brought the Yale strok,
up to "a for the opening squirt, but Captain
Bullard, evidently acting under direction
| from Coach Watson, rowed as slowly as 80
| While the crimson shell was moving alons
gracefully Yale was pounding on lead O.
over two lengths for Harvard's discourage
! ment at the half-mile stake. Harvard
seemingly made no attempt to close up
and the Yale boat was driven ahead to
safe lead at the very beginning.