The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-29
THE Assoo1ArrD PRESS AocoUN1

New London, June 2S-The Harvard shell had barely cleared the finish when its second accident happened. A row boat had ventured out into the channel and the Harvard coxswain failed to avoid it. The brow just missed the row boat, but the two craft dashed to- l gether. Both were almost overturned but the Harvard shell extricated Itself
 and escaped.
 There were many minor collisions, the chief one being between the refer ee's boat, the Dora, and the judges boat, the Oriental The Dora had just spoke the Yale shell and Referee Rives had presented the trophy flag to Cap
 tain Armstrong. The -Dora fearful of
 swamping the Yale shell with her
 swash, backed away. Suddenly the
 Oriental shot through the bridge. The
 Dora whistled hard aport but the crash
 came. The Dora skinned the side of
 the Oriental, and carried away her
 naphtha launch, which luckily fell over
 board into the river. and was not much
 damaged. The Oriental also lost her
 davits, but was fortunate in sustain
 ing no more serious damage The
 Dora's flagstaff was scraped away, but
 otherwise the trim little craft went
 unsca thed.
 A single record was broken to-day,
 the two mile distance in a four mile
 competition The champion '8S crew of
 Captain Stevenson covered the distance in 10:35. To-day Captain Armstrong's men made it in 10:21
 The race evolved another instance of athletic heroism. When the crews struck heavy water on the last mile and a half Langford sprang his oarlock, and in struggle to replace 1t wrench ed his right arm and shoulder severely. He pulled the race faultlessly, and when the order came to cease rowing cramps doubled his arm to his body. He could not use the member till Dr. Josh Hartwell and Captain Armstrong had worked over him for a quarter of an hour. He must have suffered in- tense pain during the last mile.
 The day was attended with all the picturesque incidents. The crowd, which remained small throughout the morning owing to brisk shower, fat tened to imposing proportions between noon ana , Q CHUCK, dIlQ lHeFe IS HO IOOlu to doubt the claim of New Londoners that 30O0O people witnessed the race Halft that number were visitors. There were the observation train of thirty cars, passenger steamers from Norwich, New Haven, Providence and other places, and scores of palatial yachts and small craft. The Groton road furnished 1 the usual resort for carriages and bi- | cycles and the river banks and the | accommodated thousands | of "deadheads."
 To dispose of the race before the fa- vora'ble midday conditions of wind and | tide were lost, the officials of both | crews set the hour to start at 4:45, fif- | teen minutes earlier than had been an- All the excursion steamers, ] the observation train and the press boat | Manhansett cleared the dock at | o'clock. They were in place at 4:30, the | exact minute when both crews ap- peared.
 At Red Top and Gales Ferry, two miles apart, spectators glasses could the rival eights lift their boats nto the water almost simultaneously. | rowed across the river to the starting stake exactly opposite. Her stroke was pretty and every member 1f the boat was in perfect form. Yale padded down the river slowly, as if of muscle. The shells drift d slowly into place and at 4;44, without ! sign of a false start, or delay, Referee 3ives voice gave the decisive word and he needle like shells shot out from lnder the lee of the east bank into the pen channel. Only the press and the ,ficial boats and the passengers on the
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