The Portland daily press., 1895-06-29
the hour to start at 4. 45, fifteen minutes
earlier than was announced.

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pretty. and every member of the boat was
in perfect form. Yale padded down the
river slowly, as if economical of muscle
The shells drifted slowly into place at
4. "A, and without sign of a false start
or delay, Referee Rive's voice gave the
decisive word and the needle-shaped 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' eccentricities there was no
splashing in either boat, and in spite of
it 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 a varsity crew in
ing in as pretty form as could be desired,
but were pulling slower stroke than
| Yale.
Stroke Lanford hit the Yale stroke up
to thirty four for an opening squirt, and
Captain Bullard, evidently acting under
directions from Coach Watson, rowed
| slowly at thirty-tWo. While the crimson
shell was moving along gracefully Yale
was pounding out a lead of over two
lengths for Harvard S discouragement 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.
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| the very start, and had a winning lead
when the half mile flag was waved in
| their rear.
When the crews got away the water was
pacific, the tide was running strongly.
and slight breeze favored the crews.
That these conditions accelerated the
speed the two miles, was 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 characterized by even
ness. 1t fell to thirty three, but the b oat
moved at terrific rate.
Harvard in the second half mile of the
course began preparations for closing up,
but seemingly changed their mind, after
an increase of splashing in the boat, and
| lapsed back into losing FORM
At the mile Yale's lead of nine seconds
had gone up to sixteen, and the most
enthusiastic Harvard supporters conceded
the race to Yale, barring accident.
Smooth wafer tempted Captain Arm
strong to try for fast time and he pushed
| the shell along at thirty four stroke,
completing the mile and half in 740,
with Harvard twenty seconds behind, the
loss of four seconds in the past half mile.
Yale made another half mile in quick
time, but Harvard exceeded her. Yale
ended up the two miles in 1921; Harvard
in 10.39, only nineteen seconds behind.
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in the fast half mile competition. For a
mile Yale's course on the west side, lay
where a strong current was available.
| The Yale boat kept in this wherever
possible With the conclusion of the first
half mile of the race all conditions
changed. The wind shifted to the south
east and came up the river strong,
the sharp head wind shattering all hopes
Yale had of breaking the record.
| When the crews passed the navy yard,
near the two mile flag, they said goodbye
to peaceful water and ploughed their way
into choppy rough sea, and the steamers
and other crafts which had taken their
stations along the sides of the course, had
stirred up a roll of turbulent sWash that
the boats must pass through.
Harvard seemed staggered by the waves
and Yale gained five seconds more from
| the two miles to the two and a half, Yale
making the distance in 12 55; Harvard
dropped twenty five seconds to the rear
and was pulling an uneven stroke.
| Yale began to splash trif1e, Cross and
Longarce being prime movers in this,
but the boat kept gaining. Harvard was
due for another squirt between the two
| and a half and three mile flags. Before
the Yale boat stopped splashing through
| the sea, this time three seconds were
! gained on Yale during the half mile.
. The three miles were finished by Yale
last mile of the course the Yale crew
rowed a triumphal procession. For this
distance the crafts in the river formed an
alley, with a channel in the center
| Harvard held her own for the first half
mile of the last of the four miles. The
Yale shell was tossing about on top of the
billows and Harvard was not losing
ground.
There was just twenty-five seconds
difference in the crews when the last half
mile was begun. Shepard of the Harvard
crew succumbed to another attack of
splashing and the shell drifted under the
lee of the steamer Isabel The rough
water subsided trife and the last half
mile was made in excellent time. Yale
ending the four miles in $780, Harvard
in 80 o. thirty-five seconds behind
1t was Yale's fourth consecutive victory
and her eighth in nine years. The race
completed a clean sweep for Yale in the
past college year, football baseball, track
athletics and crew championships for
1895, now standing to her credit
Critically judged, Harvard's IS exhibition
this afternoon, was not meritorious. The
stroke was slow when it should have been
sharp and speedy when needless and
ragged continually. The coxswain's er-
rors were atrocious, and they caused
Harvard to lose the benefit of the current
where tradewinds might have counted.
He ran the Harvard shell into a heavy
swash of one steamer and jammed it's
PROV into a rowboat at the finish. Yale
was judiclous and ran no risks.
The accident to Harvard's shell by
encountering the steamers waves made
the total distance between the boats
about eleven instead of seven lengths.
The tie was thirty five seconds instead of
twenty live
Not man dropped in either boat after
reaching the finish line. The Yale men,
fearing a collision from the boats closing
in about them, rowed rapidly on for an
other half mile to reach the old Cornell
boat house to disembark for the launch
without danger to their boat. Today's
race marks the conclusion of the five
years Yale-Harvard agreement and much
doubt exists regarding a renewal of the
contract, in view of the cordiality for
athletic relations existing between
Harvard and Cornell.