The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-28

NEW LONDON, June 27-In a race
never excelled on the Thames, Yales
varsity crew won the great inter-uni-
versity rowing event of the year in the
last half mile Of the four-mile course
today by a scant two lengths.
The magnificent contest vas witnessed
by thousands from observation trains
yachts and points Of vantage along the
bank.
To Yale also fell the honor Of a victory
in the freshman race while Harvard to-
night takes consolation in the fact that
her varsity four walked away from the
Yale quartette handsomely
The two minor races, with honors diVid-
ed, served only to Whet the appetites Of
the spectators. These contests had re-
suited exactly as the experts had predict
ed, and some 10000 people 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 We're fairly fa-
vorable. The wind out of the southwest
blew diagonally against the crews at the
rate of about six miles an hour A beauti-
full start, with the two eights rowing
stroke for stroke, began a contest that
will never be forgotten by those who
witnessed it,
Harvard Immediately took the lead. Her
stalwart oarsmen retained it for mile
and a half. At the two-mile flag Yale
had cut down the Harvard lead and drew
ahead, only to lose again before a half
mile had been Travelled. For still another
half the Cambridge boys held on The
excitement was intense.
Both crews by this time had dropped
to an unusually slow stroke, at times
the rate being scarcely thirty. YaIe's en-
durance, however, was UP to the stand
ard, and as the two shells approached the
three and a half-mile flag, the Ellis spurt-
ed magnihcently. Harvard heroically re-
sponded, but it was Yale's day. She took
the lead and not only kept It, but drew
away rapidly in the last quarter mile un-
til the finish was reached, when Yale
tore across the line barely two lengths
ahead, with Harvard rowing manfully.
The victory for Yale is due to the splen-
did power Of her oarsmen and the superb
generalship Of Coxswain Chittenden
With great foresight he refused to push
his men until the supreme moment. This
care found his men ready. Harvard had
shot her bolt earlier and Yale had added
another to her long list of victories.
The race was hard one for Harvard to
lose; magnificent. victory for the winners
The end found Goodell, the bow oar IN
the Harvard shell. in a state of col
lapse. 1t was necessary to lift him from
his seat into the launch.
In the Yale shell, Stroke Cameron, too,
was in distress, but he was able 10 help
himself to the Yale launch. The other
oarsmen were all strong and in good con-
dition.
The freshman eights' contest was an
easy one for the Yale youngsters. Har-
ward, 1904, being four and half lengths
to the rear. Time, Yale, 1913; Harvard,
1851.
Harvard's four won with marvellous
ease by six full lengths. No records were
broken and the time for the varsity raco
was unusually slow, probably because Of
an unexpectedly low stroke and the
cross wind.
The official time Of the four-oared
race: Harvard, 11:49 Is; Yale, 1903 1-5.
THE BIG RACE.
The race between the varsity eight
the event Of the day, was delayed until
wind and tide conditions were favorable.
1t was $50 o'clock in the evening when
Referee Meikleham caused the whistle
on the yacht Nushka to be blown as a
signal for the rival eights to prepare
At exactly o'clock the Yale oarsmen
launched the shell at Broadvtew and five
minutes later were padding leisurely to
the starting point, half a. mile down the
river. Harvard was but two minutes be-
hind the Ellis and went across the river
to accompaniment of Harvard band.
There was no loss Of time and at 7:14