The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-29

l quarters there is willingness to ad- l init that Harvard can pull beautifully | and rapidly for a short distance, but l some doubts are expressed as to her l ability to pull out a gruelling four mile race Here Yale is strong, so her ad- l mirers claim, and ii is added that Yale's l strong eight will begin to row f1ercely 1 from the very start and will be able to fight it out until the finish line is cross ed.
 Yale Views
 When pressed for a statement as to l the outcome of the race, Captain Allen I of the varsity eight merely said: 'The l men are feeling splendidly, They have 1 worked hard and are determined to l make @ great race"
 Dr. Edson Gallaudet, who coached the l Yale eight throughout the entire prelim- 1 mary training period, and who has been | with the crew almost constantly since | January, would speak but briefly. He 1 said: My men have worked hard. They l have responded faithfully and earnestly l to every suggestion, and they deserve to l win in good shape l do not believe in ! talking about a race. In fact, l do not believe in talking very much anyway" Richard A. Armstrong, another old Yale oar and coach, familiarity known | among Yale men as "Bronch" Arm l strong, returned to-day from Pough- keepsie, where he officiated last evening
 as the referee in the quadrangular race
 between the University of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Cornell and Columbia. When oc l, ,ic ,ir,io a if +n row, he said: "The Yale boat is going well. It is impossible for me to com | pare the two crews accurately, as I
 have not seen Harvard row for several days. Yale is rowing more smoothly than Wisconsin, but it would be hard to say whether one or the other, is the faster unless they were to come to-
 gether. Yale is pulling fully as well as Pennsylvania so far as form goes, but the same uncertainty prevails in com pairing these two crews" The early ev-
 ening was spent in receiving visitors,
 prominent among whom were pr. Josh" Hartwell, a former Yale oar and football player, and Lieutenant Hills of
 the auxiliary cruiser Prairie" The
 Yale contingent retired at a compara- lively early hour and long before mid night Boadview was wrapped in the
 quieta which is characteristic of the last night begore the big race.
 At Harvard Quarters.
 At Red Top, the Harvard quarters,
 there was little of the boating activity of the ten days previous. The visitors, however, kept matters lively, for score or more of graduate oarsmen came fiocking up the river, bent on a look at the crew and the quarters on the bluff that many remembered so well. Those who came early saw the crew on the river for an hour during the morning, although no hard rowing was done. Coach Storrow sent the eight off on aalf a dozen pistol starts. In each case the crew roWed out for quarter of mile, but they did not exert themselves. Just before sundown the varsity went out again, much to the delight of still greater throng of Cambridge men at the quarters. The work was light, as it would naturally be on the eve of the great race. The freshmen went out at the same time with the varsity, and both crews were lined up and given several starts. MT Storrow, who acted as referee, propounded the usual formu- la to each crew and then started them with pistol. The crews rowed each time about an eighth of mile back and forth, in front of the boat house, where the crowd of Harvard enthusi- asts, too large to be accommodated aboard the launch, could watch them The freshmen gained a slight lead on the first start, but in the three succeed ing trials the varsity jumped away and gained steadily. The work all through the boat was smooth, the outboard work especially being uniform. The crews were out about a half hour, and when they returned to the float the varsity l four oar was taken out and given some l final coaching and few starts.
 Harvard Men Not Nervous.
 None of the men seemed nervous over | the outcome, which showed them to be l well trained and not too much on edge. | Their faithful college friends sat round l and chatted naturally of the morrow's | races, and it was the opinion of all pres ent that the '99 crew had been we'll | trained.
 Harvard Oarsman's Opinion.
 Said one prominent Harvard oarsman: | "The crew has steadily improved since l it came to New London. And while it | is not an unusual one, it is still much | above the average. As a crew it is not l as good as Yale, but it has a perfection | of watermanship and smoothness never | before seen in a Harvard shell. The l boat is steady and the men row conf- | denty Nevertheless it is we'll known | that the Yale crew does not go as fast | as it looks, while the Harvard shell goes through the water much faster than it 1 appears. Yale can only row just so fast, l while Harvard has the power to increase | her speed. It appears to me, therefore, | that if Harvard is within striking dis l tance of Yale at the three mile flag, that l the Crimson crew will win through it's | squirting ability As for the freshmen I think they have chance, although not l nearly as good as the substitutes, who should win"
 Among the prominent graduates at 1 the Harvard quarters to-day were pr. William A. Brooks, Dr. Conant, Neal Rantoul, John T. Burnett and Stroke Bullard of the '96 crew, while under graduates fiocked to the quarters nearly all day.
 The varsity will have paddle in the but the other crews will not