The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-29
YALE WINS THE RACE
TITS the Eight-0ared' Varsity
She'll Contest.
Yale Ahead by Six Lengths Through the Col
lapse Of Harding, One of the Har-
ward Strokes.
(By the Associated Press.)

New London, Conn, June 2S.-Yale won
the eight cared Varsity she'll race, to-
day, beating Harvard by about six
lengths With the four cared and Fresh
men races won, and handsomely won, and,
too, with lead when nearing the finish
in the big Varsity event. defeat came to
Harvard in sudden and unexpected man-
ner Harding, the stroke who had re-
placed the disabled Captain Higgirson.
collapsed before the SO miles flag was
reached and Harvard finished with seven
oars. So that Yale was hollow victor.
The four-oared race, as was expected,
proved rather an easy victory for Harvard.
The crimson subs took the lead at the
snap of the pistol and had no difficulty
in keeping it. The official time was:
Harvard, 1922.
Yale, 1925 2-5.
The freshman contest was something of
disappointment to the New Haven men
for the Yale youngsters had been picked
as winners. Instead Harvard showed
them the rudder for two miles, and the
event was something in the nature of
procession. Official time:
Harvard, 1901.
Yale, 1919 2-5.
the varsity Fights appeared. At 1:41
the pistol was fired. For the third time
in the day Harvard dug into the water
first and the PROV of her boat forged
ahead. The start, however, was an adj
mirable one, and so little was there to
choose between the two that only those
on the official boats were able to credit
Harvard with the advantage which was
raal1V hprc Whpn the r1lGh Of the start
had given way to the four mile gait both
crews were pulling sc to the minute.
The half mile flag was reached with
a rush and the official timers had it
that Harvard was Ia seconds ahead of
her rival.
AS the mile was approached the nose
of the New Haven boat poked itself to
the fore. Harvard was ready with a
squirt, however, and the two boats snot
the mile flag on exactly even terms, ac@
cording to the official watches.
The racers sped forward in amazing
style, but as they entered upon the sec
ond mile the Ellis applied little of their
reserve power. Before Harvard was
aware of it, her rivals were three quar-
ters of a length in front of her Har-
ward still rowed 80 strikes, while Yale
lldd ulOppCu W u anu Aou 6olhSN III
spite of it.
At the two mile Yale, rowing 30, led
Harvard by nearly length. 1t began to
look like a Yale victory. Harvard's
stroke, Harding, who took Captain Hig
ginson's place, after the latters accident
on Sunday last, increased the crimson
stroke with a rush which babe fair to
take his colleagues off their nerves. Yale.
undertook to meet this squirt, but the
pace was too hot and Yale wisely deci-
ded to husband her strength for later
calls. Inch by inch Harvard pulled up
then foot by foot, and at three mile flag
the Harvard shell went to the fore for
the first time since she had lost the
lead at the start. Harvard was leading
by half length. Suddenly there came a
break in the crimson eight. Something
was wrong with the Cambridge stroke.
His oar failed at times to strike the
water. A few seconds later the Harvard
boat quivered and trembled. Up went
Hardings oar, and overtoppled his ex-
hausted body.
Yale crossed the line a winner by six
good lengths and "a 80 seconds ahead of
Harvard.
The official time was:
Yale, 21:12 rs.
Harvard, 21:27 2-5.