Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-29
THE BLUE LEADS.
Yale Wins the Great Annual
Boat Race from Harvard.
Takes and Holds the Lead from the
Start to the Finish.
Harvard 35VSeconds Behind-Poor Exhibition
by Her CoxsWain.

| New London, June aS-Yale won tn,
race by between IL and IL lengths Tn,
official time was: Yale, 81 so; Harvard
22.O5. Yale took the lead at the star
and led all the time. Harvard tried to
squirt three times, but in vain The time
by miles, official: Mile, Yale, 5 o.; Har.
ward, . 20; two miles, Yale, 1921; Has,
ward, 1899; three miles, Yale. Is. SO
Harvard 1921: four miles, Yale, 81. 30
Harvard, 2s O5.
| Yale's stroke throughout was 83. Har.
wards was unsteady, varying from Ss tc
| 80 Harvard's steering was pitiah2&1kp md
resulted in narrow escape from % b
lision with steamer and another sduai q
crash with a row boat. Rough water on
the third mile prevented an approach to
| record time
Clean and steady oarsmanship, aided
by Harvard's adventurous steering, shot
| the Yale shell down the tour mile course
on the Thames from Gales Ferry to Il Q
drawbridge, this afternoon, beginning
with superb start, and continuing with
steadily increasing lead over the entire
course, eliminating with all aggravat-
ingly easy finish at the four mile stake.
1t was Yale's fourth consecutive victory
and her eighth In nine years The race
completed clean sweep for Yale In the
past college year, the foot ball, base ball
track athletics and crew championships
for 1895 now standing to her credit
Critically judged Harvard's exhibition,
this afternoon, was not meritorous. The
stroke was slow when it should have been
sharp, speedy when needless and ragged
continually. The coxswain's errors were
atrocious They caused Harvard to lose
the benefit Of the current, where trade
winds" might have counted, ran the Har-
ward shell into the heavy swash of enc
steamer and jammed it's Prov alongside
and into rowboat at the finish. Yale was
judicious and ran no risks.
The Harvard shell had barely cleared
the finish when its second accident hap
pened. A rowboat ventured into the
channel and the Harvard coxswain failed
to avoid 1t. The PROV just missed the
rowboat and the two craft clashed to-
gether. Both were almost overturned.
but the Harvard shell extricated itself and
escaped. a--~'
A single record was broken, today, the
two-milo distance in the four mile compe.
tition. The champion 'SS crew of Capt
Stevenson covered the distance In TO- IS.
Today, Capt. Armstrong; men made it in
1921.
When the crews struck the heavy water
on the last mile and half, Langford
sprung an oar lock and in the struggle to
replace it severely wrcnched his right arm
and shoulder. He pulled the race fault.
lessly, but when the order came to cease
rpwinr 10 L.
body. He could not use the member till
DIR Hartwell and Capt. Armstrong had
worked over him a quarter of an hour.
There is no room to doubt the claim of
New Londoners that 80, people wit
messed the race. To dispose of the race
before the favorable midday conditions Of
wind and tide were lost the officials of
both crews set the hour to start at A. as,
or Is minutes earlier than announced At
4. 30 both crews appeared. Harvard rowed
across the river to the starting stake ex-
actly opposite. Her stroke was pretty and
every member of the boat was in perfect
form. Yale padded down river slowly,
as If economical OF muscle
The shells drifted slowly into place at
4.44, and without the sign of false start,
or delay, Referee Rives' voice gave the
decisive word and the needle-like shells
shot out from under the lee Of the east
bank into the open channel So pretty a
start was never seen here. Except for
Langford's eccentricities there was no
splashing in either boat, and in spite of 1T, |
the Yale shell spun steadily to first place
Yale swung into symmetrical form at
once and pulled one of the fastest half
miles ever rowed by Varsity crew In q
race here Harvard was rowing
in as pretty form as could be desired, but
was pulling o slower stroke than Yale |
Stroke Langford hit the Yale stroke up to |
81 for the opening squirt. but Captain |
Billiard, evidently acting under directions |
from Coach Watson. rowed as slowly as |
80.
While the Crimson shell was moving |
along gracefully, Yale was pounding out |
a lead Of over two lengths for Harvard S |
at the half-mile stake. |
Harvard seemingly made no attempt to
close up and the Yale boat was driven |
ahead at a safe lead at the very beginning. |
Yale made fight for the battle at the |
very start and had a winning lead when
the halfmile flag waved In their rear
When the crews got away, the water
WhS ShAiAs thO SAuO VOC sbfOukly,
and slight breeze favored the crews.
These conditions accelerated the speed for
two miles and were perceptible especially
during the first mile. From the time the
first half-mile flag was passed, till the
mile was reached, Yale's stroke was
by evenness. 1t fell to 33,
but the boat moved at q terrific rate.
Harvard In the second half-mile of the
course began preparations for closing up,
but seemingly changed her mind, after an
Increase of splashipg in the boat, and
apsed back into her losing form.
At the mile Yale's lead of nine seconds
lad gone up to 16 and the most enthusiasts
lie Harvard supporters conceded the race
% Yale, barring accidents. Smooth water
empted Capt. Armstrong to try for fast
lime and he pushed the she'll along at "a
trokes, completing the mile and half at
40, With Harvard 90 seconds behind, a
oss OF four seconds In the past half-mile.
Yale made another half mile in quick
lime, but Harvard exceeded her. Yale
nded up the two miles in 10 81. and
Harvard In IL. 80, only 10 seconds behind.
Harvard gained a second on Yalf and in a
asst half-mile competition.
For the mile Yale's course, on the west