The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-28
DETAILS OFrTHE RACES.
Slow Stroke Rowed-Fine Generalship
 of the Yale Coxswnin.

New London, June 17.--In a race nev-
 CT exceIled on the Thames for spectac-
 ular closeness Yale's varsity crew wor
 in the last half mile of four-mile race
 to-day. It was contest that worked
 into perfect frenzy the thousands of
 enthusiasts who watched it from the observation trains, yachts and points of
 vantage on the banks and saw Yale row to victory. leading Harvard over the finish line by scant two lengths.
 To Yale also fell the honor of vic tory in the freshman race, while liar yard tonight takes consolation in the fact that her varsity four walked away from the Yale quartette hand somely. The two minor races, with honors divided, served to whet the ap- petites of 12,000 spectators on the ob- servation trains and half as many more on yachts and the river banks. These contests had resulted exactly as the ex- perts had predicted, and the great crowds were impatient for the supreme event of the regatta.
 The big race was rowed down stream in the cool of the evening shortly after z o'clock. The conditions were fairly favorable A wind out of the south west blew diagonally against the crews at the rate of about six miles an hour A beautiful start, with both eights row ing stroke for stroke, began a contest that will never be forgotten by those who witnessed it.
 Harvard immediately took the lead. Her stalwart oarsemn retained it for mile and a half At the two-mile flag Yale had cut down the Harvard advan- tage and drew ahead only to lose again before half mile had been travelled. For still another half the Cambridge boys held on, and the excitement was of the keenest kind.
 Both crews had by this time dropped to an unusually slow stroke, at times scarcely 30. Yale's endurance, however, was up to the standard, and as the two shells approached the three and a half mile flag the Ellis spurted magnificent ly. Harvard heroically responded, but 1t was Yale's day. She took the lead, and not only kept it. but drew away rapidly in the last quarter mile until the finish was reached, when Yale tore across the line barely two lengths ahead. with Harvard rowing manfully. The victory came to Yale alike from the splendid power of her oarsmen and the superb generalship of Coxswain Chittenden. With great foresight he refused to push his men until the su preme moment came. His care found his men ready to take up the task. Harvard had shot her bolt earlier, and Yale had added another to her long list of victories.
 The race was a hard one for Harvard to lose; a magnificent one for the win ners. The end found Goodell the bow oar in the Harvard she'll in a state of collapse. It became necessary to lift him from his seat into the launch. In the Yale shell Stroke Cameron, too, was in distress, but he was able to | help himself to the Yale launch. The i other oarsmen we're all strong and in { good condition.
 The freshman contest was an easy | one for the Yale youngsters Harvard | 1904 being four and half lengths to | the rear. Harvard's four won with | marvellous abandon by six full lengths. | No records were broken, and time for the varsity race was unusually slow, because of an unexpectedly | slow stroke and the cross wind.
 The race between the varsity eights the event of the day, was delayed un- til wind and tide conditions were fav-