Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-28
YALE WINS


Broadview, and five minutes later the
blue tipped oars We're padding leis-
urely to the start. Harvard was but
two minutes behind the Ellis and went
across to the accompaniment of the
Harvard band. At IA both boats We're
in position. receiving instructions from
the referee. Yale had the east course
while Harvard occupied the west
lane.
The pistol was fired at rs. The
start was almost on even terms. Har-
ward possibly getting n trifie the jump
on her rival. For three lengths il was
stroke for stroke at &c to the minute.
Yale then dropped to 80, while Har-
ward went down to "a.
The water was smooth. although
there was a light breeze from the
southwest. Before ten lengths had
been travelled it was plainly to be seen
that the race was to be a good one.
Harvard had drawn away to the extent
of quarter Of length. The Fights
we're rowing as one man.
AT the half mile ii was Harvard by
a very narrow margin. second and
fifth rs to time. and still n quarter Of
Z length as to distance. AS the first
flags of the course We're passed Yale
was rowing 81 and Harvard was one
point lower. Harvard had settled down
into the best work of her race and
with beautifully steady pull the
Cambridge boys sent their shell still
further ahead. Yale. too. was rowing
mngnificently, hut did not display the
dash Of Harvard.
At the mile it began to look like
Harvard. Her heroes We're 4 80 sec
ends ahead of Yale at the one mile
Ing. n comfortable length tn the good.
At this point however. Yale's spirit
began to show itself and little more
go" appeared in the New Haven
craft
Slowly hut surely Yale gained and in
the next half mile cut Harvard's lead
down tn scant half length. The diff
ference in time was "a seconds. Both
crews were rowing like clock work and
there was every indication that each
eight was able to stay out the entire
-four miles.
Passing the mile and n half. Yale
lowered her stroke and Harvard fol-
lowed. and for the rest of the race with
the exception of beautiful spurts up
on occasions the crews hardly varied
from q slow 20 or 81.
Yale's pull seemed to be the more
telling as the shells approached the
navy yard and there was perceptible
gain for the blue. and when the emile
flags We're passed Yale was leading for
the first time in the race.
The margin. however. was danger
ously narrow. Harvard was one second
behind. but in the next half mile she
again wrested the lead away from Yale
and at the 2la mile Harvard lead by
Just two fifths of n second.
Those on the official yachts. some of
whom were oarsmen of former days.
at this juncture began to talk about
the race with enthusiasm. Thus far 1t
had been magnificent in its closeness
and the performance was promised a
heartbreaking finish. The blues pulled
like demons but Harvard was working
with Just as much power and skill. AS
n result. Yale though exertng herself.
was unable to creep up and Harvard
actually drew one-ffth of second
still further away. passing the 3-mile
station three-fifths of n second ahead.
The lead of the Crimson oars was to
he estimated in mere feet and inches.
The shells entered the finishing mile
with beautiful water conditions in the
long lane of yachts and it remained
| for this last long mile to afford the
! most spectacular contest seen on the
| Thames for many year. With guns
booming and sirens shrieking. the two
boats swept down the line. Harvard
Twas still in the van. but Yale was
| clinging, leachlike.
| It was not until the 3E mile flags
we're within hailing distance that Chit
tenden. the Yale coxswain. called or
his men for a mighty effort. Up went
the Yale stroke and up went the Yale
shell.
Harvard tried to respond and hel
men answered the call heroically, but
| Yale was not to be daunted and the
sons Of Eli tore along in a style that
was maddening for Harvard sup
porters.
The 31s-mile point found Yale agar
in the lead and she was never headed
Indeed. with Harvard never letting
down for an instant. Yale's power
took on added strength and the Yale
men began to steal away by feet. II
was nothing but Yale after this ant
feet became the generous proportion.
of a length. Then it was one length
and open water appeared for the frs
time.
1t was the old story of Yale crev