The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-29
CR0WDSATNEW LONDON
Harvard Marked Up Point or Two By
the Sporting Men.-An Idea Prevails
That Yale is Overrated---Prepa-
rations for the Great Aquatic
Event Are Complete.

there prevailed a sentiment tha: the
Yale crew as well as the nine, may he
much overrated.
This feeling was also echoed in the
corridors of the Crocker house tonight,
and odds on Yale that were to YES
terday dropped to to and to to-
day.
1t appears to be general sentiment
among the sporting fraternity, that the
Harvard crew has a dash that may
win, in spite of the long experience and
steady practice of the men from Yale
The hotel and the streets of the city
filled rapidly this. evening and tho
crowd, with a great display of fire.
works out In the river, enjoyed itself
hugely.
Referee Curtis was busy man oil
day, although the important details
were settled some time ago.
The freshman race will start at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning. the crews
getting the pistol fire at the line near
the bridge. The course is two miles
upstream, with the finish at the two
mile varsity mark off the navy yard.
Immediately after the finish of the
freshman race, the substitutes OF
the two Varsity crews will pun
four-oared race, continuing upstream
.
the Harvard quarter at the starting
line of the varsity race. Barring de-
laws, these two races will be finished
by noon.
The observation train which will fol-
low all these races will then return to
New London, but will leave again at
o'clock for the start Of the varsity
race.
This third race will start opposite the
fIna NKTiIt
pull four miles down the river, finish
ing just above the bridge In the pidst
of d, cluster Of shrieking steam yachts
and excursion steamers.
The positions in the races are as fol-
lows:
Freshmen race, up stream, east shore
Harvard, west shore Yale; four-oared
race, up stream, east shore Harvard,
west shore Yale; varsity race, down
stream east shore Yale, west shore
Harvard.
Interest naturally centered in the two
crew quarters bonight. Among the
oarsmen who will pull for Yale on the
Thames tomorrow there was an un-
wonted amount of suppressed excite
ment at quarters when members of the
varsity eight returned to the float at
$50 o'clock, after their last short prac-
tice, and tenderly lifted from the water
the shell whIok will carry them to VIC
tory or defeat tomorrow.
While an air Of apparent content per-
vaded the groups of graduate coachePs,
the oarsmen themselves indicated by
their restIessness that they had begun
to feel the Importance of the approach
ing event. A rub down and supper re-
lieved the situation somewhat, and the
Yales lolled about Broadview with an
air, which, as the evening progressed,
developed into a bearing partaking
more or less Of confidence.
a roundup Of the 20 men who will
pull Cor the New Haven university to-
morrow revealed situation entirely
encouraging from physical standpoint.
Not a man seemed overturned, and IL
was stated with some equanimity that
none was dangerously near the too
fine" limit. The members of the crew
expressed a Discrimination to be ques-
toned concerning the outcome of tie
various races. However, the consensus
Of opinion at the Yale settlement seems
to have crystallized into a sentiment
which has few of the elements of con-
fdence.
Yale does not expect to win all three
races tomorrow, SO they say. They fig
ure it all out in this way, and IL is
purely their figuring and not that of
outsiders. Harvard Will probably win
the contest between the varsity fours;
the freshman race will be a hot one
with the chances in favor of a Crimson
victory, Yale being conceded a "nght-
ing chance; the varsity Fights will
row a fierce four miles with Yale
crossing the finish line a winner.
The reasons advanced at Broa iview
for these conclusions, find support
very generally among the outsiders at
Gales Ferry, in all points except these
involved In a discussion Of the big race
OF the regatta. varsity eight.
Gales Ferry seems to have contract
ed the Harvard fever which Is epidem-
ic in New London and the residents
look for a Cambridge win. At the Yale
quarters there is q willingness TO ad.
NIT that Harvard can pull beautifully
and rapidly for a short distance, but
some doubts are expressed as to her
ability to pull out a gruelling four
mile race. Here Yale is stroTg, so
her admirers claim, and it is added that
Yale's strong eight will begin to row
iercely from the very start, an6 VIII
be able to fight IL out until the finish
line is crossed.
when pressed for a statement as 10
the outcome of the race, Captain Al
len Of the varsity eight merely said:
1.-THE men are feeling splendidly. They
have worked hard and ars determined
10 make great race"
DR.. Gallaudet. who coached the Yale
eight throughout the entire prelirli-
nary training period, and who mas been
with the crew almost constantly since
January. would speak but briefly. de
said:
My men have worked hard. They