Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-24
YALE FRESHMEN WON,
A Race I'm Which All Contestant.
broke the Record.


In one of the most magnificent contests
ever Towed over an American course the
/ Yale Freshmen yesterday at Pougkeepsie
| won victory by two lengths over Har-
ward. with Cornell three-uuarters of a
| length behind the crimson
Yale. first. . minutes 191. seconds: Har-
ward. second minutes, 261a seconds: Cor
neil third. minutes 29ia seconds: best pre-
Flous record. . minutes Al seconds
The hour of starting was postponed from
':3o O'Clock for an hour then for half an
: hour longer. and another wait carried the
race along until 40 o'clock before the
shout OF the referee unlashed the straining
blades.
The observation train curled like a vel
low snake along the bank the tiers of
seats frightened only here and there by
necks OF color and groups of shouting col
!eSlans and pretty girls waving their ban
ners.
At 40 o'clock the referee from the bow
OF ms swift yacht shouted: Are you ready?
20; rattle rush, showers of spray
ana Harvard jumped in the lead Cornell
nara after and Yale getting off badly a
good length behind. For the first half mile
II was anybody's race. Yale got together
her rivals, stroke by stroke. She was row
ing thlrty-hve. Harvard thrty-four and
torneii was keyed a bit higher at thirty
slN. AT the first half mile the Yale colts
and Harvard had been nip and tuck but
now In the second half the Ithacans squirt
ed desperately. The Harvard men were not
to be shaken off. and meeting the squirt
Forged slowly ahead. Yale was on the
outside and Cornell nearest the bank
In the last mile Yale was going smooth
~. WIN plenty of power and pretty blade
WORK. Harvard was getting a bit ragged
| IN the boat. although there as no smash
ing. while the stroke of Cornell seemed to
| De getting bit short and uncertain
;" men the time came for the final burst
OF speed In the last quarter Yale had a
iehgtn and half the better of Harvard
while the Cornell bow was tanning tba
| crimson rudder. The Cambridge men
| seemed badly used up and had rowed them
selves TO a standstill. but exhaustion did
youngsters until relaxation came and tben
Two OF them keeled over. The Yale and
Soiheii crews sat up well and seemed to
nave considerable starch left in them.
tapt BLOCK of the Yale crew said last
| evening: Il was never more surprised thai
10 see the way We got off at the start. We
nave always been slow at the start and
nave never started before at the shot of
d pistol l expected that both Harvard
ana Cornell would pull right away from
| US at the start and that we would NOT
eaten up until after the first mile but in
steau OF mat the coxwain tells me that we
| s.artea even with Harvard and got ahead
OF Cornell. / was also SURPRISED 10 c.
harvard and Cornell attempt to sp,,rt on
the mile L think they killed Themselves
oy attempting to squirt when they Dial We
uiu not squirt until the last half and then
| we pulled right away from them
! our boys We're certainly not I'D to their
| uSuai condition in the race and for nyself
feel weak and had cramD in INV Sou
| ach, but we saved ourselves as much az
we could and were able to null ont oil
| right Yale started off with ten fast
| strokes and rowed nineteen strokes the frst
| half minute and seventeen the second
| After that We tried to keep thirty-four IN
me minute and spurted at thirty-six on
| the last half" "
Notwithstanding their recent illness. the
| freshmen were all in fine condition when
| they finished the race They walked IN
! to their quarters from the boat house chat
ting glibly together over their victory in
| the face Of SO many misfortunes and after
nearly dinner a number of them took
| their coats and vsilises and walked three
| miles into town to catch the train for New
| York. ~
| Fred White. who has assisted in the
| training of the Cornell eights said In a
| disSusted tone, that the youngsters showed
a noticeable lack of sense in running their
| stroke up and down and not keeping at a
| steady, hard pull from the beginning
| Capt. Goodrich of the Harvard Varsity
crew, VINO mad his men upon the observa-
ton train to witness the race, said:
| Harvard is very much pleased with the
| result of the race today. Neither Mr. I,eh-
| mann nor myself had any idea that our
Freshmen crew would do anything. They
| had practically trained themselves Mr.
| Lehman devoted nearly all mis- attention
TO the Varsity crew. They gave the Yale
| men pretty good fight and beat our old
| VictorS Of last year. and altogether we
| are very proud of them"