The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-30

| shot which sent the two crews off in the big race of the day. The water was as calm as an inland. The crews roWed in fagged lines, the blue occupying the l eastern course, the crimson the western. l Ya.e caught th5 water frs, but Harvard was a close second and the two eights started on their long journey practically on even terms. The New Haven boys | hit up a stroke of 37 to the minute with | the young men from Cambridge pulling | beautifully at 36. The shells had not l travelled half a mile when by the nler- est chance they presented beautiful | spectacle. Harvard was still rowing at 36, and Yale had dropped her clip to the same figures and with perfect rhythm 1 the two crews fell into stroke at uni | son.
 Simultaneous Notion. The eighteen brown backs came for ward and backward together. The reach the catch, the heave and the recoveH were simultaneous in both shells and, as the two craft sped on with noses and rudders exactly even they looked as if they might have been mechanically con- nected and propelled by identical ma chinery. Just before the fGst half ml9 was reached Yale seemed to put more power into her stroke and gave the first intimation of an advantage. Harvard apparently paid no attention to this un- important change in positions and roWed steadily on. Accordingly at the half mile flag the nose of the blue shell was a trifle in the van, giving Yale lead of an eighth of a length The first flag, however, had hardly been passed when Harvard spurted, Yale dropping her stroke one point and the Harvard boat came up on even terms.
 Harvard Takes the Lcasi.
 Reaching down for the mile flag the Yale coxswain swerved slightly from his true course and directly after the mile flag had been passed Harvard took the lead, which she was not to surrender throughout the race. Yale, whose men had up to this point been rowing beauti- fully, indulged in a little freaky water mauship and Harvard st7le away. Dur ing the next half mile the crimson-tlpred oars were sweeping gracefully through the water at a rate and in a style which fairly lifted the shell from the water 
 creased her lad to a full length.
 Yale Called Upon Fransicn'ly.
 The Yale steerer saw the Harvards pulling steadily away and he frantieally called on his men to hit it up. They responded nobly and increase the rate two points, rowing 36 to the minute. Harvard meanwhile had been rowing easily at 34 and after watching Yale few strokes, Captain Higginson decided that a Harvard 34 was as telling as Yale 36 and he wisely refused to respond to Yale's spurt. At this point the Haf- yard men did the prettiest rowing Of the day. and among those on board the offi- cial beats it was the unanimous opinion +hat no finer niece of work had ever besn seen on the Thames. Notwithstanding Yales' speedier stroke, the Ellis found It impossible to overcome the HarVaro lead.
 Harvard Gains Easily.
 On the contrary, during this very Yale epurt the Harvard shell actually gained another half length and proceed ed to make it two full lengths in an amazingly short period Yale temporal rily surrendered and dropped from 50 to 32 strokes to the minute, while Harvard lowered her stroke to 33. At the two mile flag the Cambridge boat was fairly flying through the water, her oarsmen, apparently growing stronger. Yale was rowing we'll and improved In the next half mile but for every notch Of me work that Yale cut out Harvard gouged cut two and at the two and halt mile flag it was Harvard's advantage by three clean lengths Yale with her tra- ditional sand and pluck put in some gruelling work and undertook to light bravely the fate which now seemed certain.
 Procession.
 The race had gone too far, however, and Harvard having in mind the thrash ings which she had suffered at Yale's hands in former years, proceeded td make walk away of it and at the three mile flag found the race partak- ing of all the elements of a procession. Harvard had stolen two more lengths from the Yale boat and was gliding gracefully along with Yale five long boats to the rear. Down the long lane of fantastically decorated yachts gath cred and about the finish the Harvard eight swung jauntily, steadily pulling away from Yale.
 Reaching For the Finish.
 Reaching for the finish flag the tide caught the Harvard shell and swerved it woefully. The little coxswain had his head about him, however, and with great skill worked his boat back into her line and shot down. toward the judges boat. Here was witnessed some course. piloting, several small boats lowering about the course The and well planned scheme of the regatta committee was regarded fu- tile at this point because of bull-headed of police orders and clumsy of police boats. It cost Harvard a fraction of a length, per haps, but Yale struggling along gamely had similar experience and the dis advantages were event.
 The Finish.
 Harvard crossed the finish line in a rowing beautifully, six and a half lengths to the good. Yale fin shed in fairly good shape, but her men were somewhat depressed, of course. Harvard had won her grand race in twenty minutes fifty-two and one-half seconds while Yale crossed the line in twenty-one minutes thirteen seconds. l.ze- l.,sz