The Portland daily press., 1899-06-30

Inc races preliminary TO the varsity
simply served to whet the spectators
appetits Three-thirty D. m, the hour ap-
pointed for the oars found neither oars
men nor officials In the range of vision of
the spectators on the ten car observation
train which ran on the east side of the
river for this race Three-quarters of an
hour elapsed before the quartettes from
the two settlements appeared In their
shells but at 4. Is p. m. both boats were
Imposition at the varsity eight starting
point opposite Gales Ferry The forenoon
plans called for the rowing of both races
up stream but the rowing Of the races In
the afternoon made 1t necessary
TO PULL DOWN STREAM
in all three races
Harvard had been allotted the eastern
COURSE and Yals had the western After
the boats were In position Rsferes Meik-
leham made 1t matter of seconds In get.
ting them of. Harvard caught the water
first ana jumped to lead which was
never wrested from her. Yale splashed at
the first stroke and ,rowed far less easily
than Harvard. Before half a mile had
been rowed IL was evident that HRrvardls 8
four subs would furnish to the crimson
eight In case Of accident to the regular
men far better support than the second
'ASN WHS "Nt@@1 SNPf%et@<eAs" &e&c . teh-
sity.
In the half mile the Crimson had estab.
lished a lead of two lengths. The crew
was pulling smoothly while Yale's she'll
was noticsably jerky between strokes
harvard cleared her paddles In magniii.
ent style while Yale seemed to halt and
then nervously yank them out. Shortly
after passing the first half mile, Harvard
spurted ana added another length TO her
lead. This drive developed the first un.
steadiness In the Harvard boat an awk-
ward break appearing In evidence at the
bow oar. Yale. however, continued to
splash and she was unable to take advant-
,Re OF the Harvard irregularity. A quar-
ter of mile svfficed for Harvard to re-
cover her form and the Crimson boys rs-
sumed their Yale annihilattng paoe
Two more lengths came Harvard way in
short order and as the crews approached
the frat mile tag 1t was seen that bar
ring accidents IL was Harvar1's race by a
wide margin. When the battle was half
finished Yale made her most desperate
stfort with q lively squirt. Harvard, how
YER. was ready and met Yaie's effort
With another. There wure temporary
muscle and skill Ia the Yale four and the
latter suoceeded in cutting down the lead
or their rivals nearly length. At che
mile. thersfors, Harvard was ahead by
four lengths. Instead Of continuing their
good work, however. the Yale men began
to indulge in vngaries and the boat was
for some minutes sadly of an even keel
The last imile was a repetition OF the
drst. Harvard gaining steadily until ut
the mile and half shs had nearly six
lengths to the good. Here Yale was rush
ing her slides temporarily but with COM
mendable pluck and dash she pulled her
elf together for q final squirt and did
we'll.
Harvard grew stronger and spurted
uwS W. Ya k,fa g. a.
but her efforts were futile and few mo-
ments later the Harvard four had crossed
the line IN 10 minutes. 81 seconds, Yale
crossing In II minutes, seconds, six
lengths and a fraction behind. 4
Both fours rowed back to thsir quar-
ters, Yale 10 receiye commendation for
faithful work. Harvard to be showered
with sncoIniums. The racs of the fours
had hardly been finished when the judges
boat, the yacht Parthenia, got under way
for her position at the finish of the 'varsi-
ty race and the other official yachts COM
pieted the arrangements for the race be-
tween
THE FRESHMEN EIGHTS.
Both crews were already at the starting
point which was at the two mile flag just
of the navy yard. Yale had drawn the
western course; Harvard the eastern
The conditions for this, the second race
were better. II possible, than those under
which the previous race had been rowed
A strong outgoing tide caused consider
able trouble at the start but at about 4. As
both crews were ready and the starting
shot was tired. Harvard was the frat to
ind the water and the two boats were off
Ii was false start Tor almost imme-
diately No. 2 in the Harvard shell raised
his hand as u signal that something was
wrong in the Crimson boat.
The boats were recalled and it developed
that No. In the Harvard boat had
jumped his slide The Yale eight had
pulled several hundred feet down the
course bafore the men appreciated the
fact that the start was false one. This
caused a delay which was tedious to the