The age-herald., 1901-06-28
The Sons of O|d E|i Won the Event by a Scant Two
 Lengths
FINE WEATHER CONDITIONS
Twenty Thousand People Saw the Best Rowing Exhibition of Years-Both
 Crews Behaved SpIendidly
 and Rowed Beautifully.

New London, Conn, June A.-In a race never excelled on the Thames, Yale's 'Varisty crew won the great inter university rowing event of the year in the last half mile of the four-mile course today. by a scant two lengths. The mag nificent contest was witnessed by thousands from observation trains. yachts and points of vantage along the bank. To Yale also fell the honor of victory in the freshman race while liar yard tonight takes consolation in the fact that her varsity four walked away from the Yale quartette handsomely.
 The two minor races, with honors di- vided, served to whet the appetites of the spectators. These contests had re- suited exactly as the experts had pre- dicted and some 2o,000 people were impa- tient for the supreme event of the regatta
 The big race was rowed down stream in the cool of the evening shortly after o'clock. The conditions were fairly fa- vorable. A wind from the southwest blew diagonally against the crews at the
 rate of about six miles an hour.
 At TIA both boats were in position. Yale had the east course while Harvard occupied the west. The pistol was fired at 7:15 It was a start almost on even terms. Harvard possibly having slight advantage. For three lengths it was stroke for stroke at 3s to the minute.
 Yale then dropped to 35 while Harvard
 went down to 34.
 At the half mile it was Fiar l9rd by A very narrow margin, a second and fifth as to time and still a quarter of a length as to distance. As the first flags of the course were passed Yale was rowing thirty-five and Harvard was one point lower. Harvard had settled down into the best work of her race and with a beautifully steady pull the Cambridge boys sent their shell still further ahead. Yale. too, was rowing magnificently, but at this stage of the race did not display the dash of the Harvard men.
 At the mile it began to look like liar yard. Passing the mile and a half Yale | lowered her stroke and Harvard followed, | and for the rest of the race, with the ex- | ception of beautiful spurts upon occasions, | the crews hardly varied from thirty to thirty-one. Yale's pull seemed to be more telling and as the shells approached the navy yard there was a perceptible gain | for the blue, and when the two mile flag was passed Yale was leading for the first
 time in the race. Harvard was one sec
 ond behind, but in the next half mile she again wrested the lead away from Yale, and at the two and a half mile flag liar yard led by just two-fifths of a second. The Yale men pulled like giants, but liar yard was working with just as much power and skill. As result Yale was un- l able to creep up and Harvard actually | at,1 nft1 AN -
 second, passing the three mile station three fifths of a second ahead
 l The lead of the crimson oafsnen was l to be estimated not in lengths but in mere | feet and inches. The shells entered the | finishing mile with beautiful water con-
 ditions between the long lane of yachts.
 and 1t remained for this last mile to af-
 ford the most spectacular contest seen | on the Thames for many year.
 1 Harvard was still in the van but Yales
 was clinging to her. It was not until the
 three and half mile flags were within
 hailing distance that Chittenden, the Yale | coxswain, called on his men for mighty | effort. Up went the Yale stroke and up | crept the Yale shell. Harvard tried to re- | spond and her men answered the call he- l roically, but the sons of "Old Eli'' tore
 along in a style that was maddening to | Harvard supporters The three and half |
 She was never headed. Indeed, with Har- yard never letting down forsan instant, | Yale took on added strength and the
 Yale men began to steal away foot by
 foot It was nothing but Yale after this, | and feet almost became length. Then II was one length and open water appeared | for the first time. It was the old story | of a Yale crew with skill and endurance | to stay in the last stages of the long | tourney. Yale's victory was one Of | scant two lengths. The official time at
 the finish was: Yale 23:37, Harvard 23:45. | The freshmen race and the four-oar | contest preceded the big event of the day. The freshmen eights were sent off up the river for a two mile row just after | o'clock Yale was at the railroad bride
 five minutes ahead of the Harvard young | sters
 Yale took the lead at the start and was never headed crossing the line four and | a half lengths ahead. The time was: | Yale, 10:27 4-5 Harvard, 10:49. N1F | From the appearance of the two fours | on the water at the navy yard at the end | of the freshmen race there was never | a doubt as to the superiority of the Iar-
 yard quartette. Their physique, their | stroke their finish were clearly ahead of | Yale. Harvard occupied the east lane | Yale the west. The race began at 5:4l | and Harvard proceeded to take vengeance l for the treatments defeat. The crimson | carsmen took the lead at the crack of the | pistol and crossed the line in 11:49 1-5 | six lengths ahead of Yale. The time was
 12:09 1-5.