Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-28
YALE AND HARVARD
Resting on Oars, Awaiting To-
days Great Battle.
Yale Varsity Confident Of Winning
---Haryard Full Of Pluck.
Crew Disabled. Blu! Every Man will Pun 10
The Last Ounce.

New London. June 27.-OEee more the
representative crews OF TWO Ieaulhs
I American universities, Yale and Har-
ward. stand on the banks OF the Ihames
ready to renew the battle for rowing
supremacy. while the enthusiasts OF
former years. old boatmen and under
graduates are 1iocking into New Lon
don. the scene of SO many memorable
contests.
The crews-and this year there are
six of them. a Varsity, freshman and
four-oar from each college-have I'm
ished their training after many weeks
of tedious perseVering work and moth
! ing can now be done to add to their
speed and endurance, except few
words of caution and encouragement
| from the coachers ANA some old eX-
perienced oars.
| Naturally with Harvard's captain,
| who was the stroke and the best oar,
out of the boat, RECLINING on couch
at Red Top with an injured ankle,
there il. tonight. at the Yale quarters,
the utmost confidence in the ability of
the New Haven crew to pull out vic
, tory, tomorrow, in the big four miles
race between the Varsity eights.
Stin there is a grim determination at
! Red Top, the Harvard quarters, to do
or die and there are not a few. tonight,
who believe that this doggedness Will
win the race. The men are not dis
/ couraged by any means, with the loss
OF their captain while still realizing
the severe handicap under which they
will have to pull. In Charles Harding,
| who viii sit in the boat in Higginson' )
| place and make the pace the Cam
| bridge men have the greatest conf
dence.
The freshman race is. this year, alb
sorbing more than ordinary attention
| and "a yet no one has been 50 rash as
| To state positively who will win. while
| that other sort of preliminary round -
J the four-oared race between the sub
/ sttutes of the two Varsity creWs-ls
! VI occa4iDning considerable comment
/ The few Wagers hat were recorded
! gave Yale the benefit of all doubt and
| ODDS Of to 3. 3 to and even better
wer. offered. on the regatta as a
| who,e there hardly seems to be the
usual amount If interest and enthusi-
asm this year.
| All three Of the races are planned.
| as usual t. b. rUWed down stream
| with the time which will at the time
! have ebbed about three hours ana he
! running strong. The flur-oared crews
| Will he sent away. at 1l20, at the be
ginning Of the course across the river
! from the Harvard quarters at Red
| Top. The crews will pull two miles
| down stream and finish at the navy
| yard. lmme diately afterWard the
| freshman will start at the navy yard
| ana finish under the big railroad
| railroad bridge, a distance also of two
miles. The observation trains which
will have followed the crews down the
course will then hurry back to Red
| TOP, and. about II noon. the Varsity
eight will start and pull down stream
! for four miles.
Should "A strong wind necessitate a
/ postponement. tomorrow the program
| will provide for the fOur-Cared and
/ the freshmen races starting about 4
! O'Clock in the afternoon. But the
/ Varsity race will be rowed up stream
and will probably not be started until
about p. NJ. The prospects, tonight,
! however. indicate that the weather
will allow the original program To be
carried out.
An analysis Of the feeling Of the
| Harvard undergraduates as far as it
could he ascertained, tonight, showed
! that they expected to win The Varsity
race: that the four-oared contest would
/ go to Yale and that the freshmen Of
| the Cambridge University would put
up an aggressive race. the outcome Of
which they We're not ready to predict.
Yale tried u appear not over conf
dent. tonight. If they expected to be
in the running at the finish they felt
, certain that Harvard would be close
up. they said