New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-29

keeping up her powerful thirty-four stroke
crept perceptibly ahead. Another brief stretch
and Yale had a good quarter length TO her
credit. Then the Blue cars broke loose and sent
the shouts ringing across the water to the
squirting crew.
But Harvard, apparently undisturbed by her
rivals lead. which third of a length,
lowered the stroke a trife TO thirty-one, while
! ale settled down TO thrty-two stroke. At the
two mile flag, with the race half over, Harvard
was still sticking close TO Yale in fact, she re-
duced the lead triIie. though Yale was hitting
up her stroke once more. The Navy Yard had
come and gone now, and still the race was any
body's. Yales lead was only slight-a mere half
length. that might be swept away at any mo-
ment
NOW HARVARD GOES TO THE FORE.
And so IT proved With the two and a half
mile flag futterng behind him, and the last half
of the race well under way, Harvard's "coxy,"
who watching the Yale boat out of the tail
of his eye, whispered hoarsey for the squirt
Harding, who had been rowing superbly,
sponded without 2 culver, and the Harvard
shell suddenly leaped forward like a thing of
life Not by inches, but by feet, the Crimson
boat cut down Yaie's precious lead, until at the
three mile point Harvard at last had poked her
shell two-thirds of a length ahead. All what
howl burst forth then from the Cambridge men.
They cheered till they We're hoarse, and then
broke forth into that old Harvard anthem about
showing several miles Of rudder to the crack
NeW-Haven crew"
The region Of the yachts and the steamers was
now close at hand, and the two crews still
struggling abreast of each other entered that
long lane danked by the jaunty yachts already
whistling their salutes
HOW THE SLUMP CAME
But what was the matter with the Harvard
boat now? It suddenly seemed to weaken and
slump, while Yale spurted up even and then
poked her nose ahead again. A hundred glasses
that mad been thrown aside by the ecstatic Har-
ward men were snatched up, and they peered
anXiously at the feeting crews. It made
plain then. Harvard's stroke, her emergency
day, was beginning to weaken Already the
cOEswan could be seen da shing water over the
faltering oarsman. A groan burst from the lips
Of the Harvard men. The fruits of victory that
they had seen themselves already beginning TO
gather had turned to ashes. And if dismay
the plight Of their oarsmen who had pulled
themselves together rluckily after the loss OF
their captain, but whose portion defeat.
Deprived of the impetus of a starboard oar
and with its coXswain occupied with Harding
the Harvard shell swung around to the left
| swain could get free he steAred the boat back
! into the course and the other seven men pulled
| sturdliy and plUckily 10 the finish though long
| before they reached The line they could hear the
| shouts that greeted their cOnQU@fors.
| There was sorrow in the ranks of the Harvard
| men, but they were full Of admiration for their
! plucky oarsmen, and gave more than one cheer
10 the defeated crew as it sat resting on its oars
J beneath the big bridge.
The officials of the were: Referee w H
| Melkleham, OF New York; timers ]. J. Storrow
| Harvard, and James c. Greenway, Yale; judges
J at start. c. H Schweppe, Harvard and w r
Maloney, Yale; judges at finish George r Mum
The time Of the two crews at different stages
| Of the course follows: