Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-27
YALE IN.-fHE LEAD.
Fa,EC
Harvard Defeated in the
Eight-0lassr'ed Race.
A GALLANT STRUGGLE
ONLY FOUR LENGTHS IN FOUR
MILES.
Z
Crimson Captured Four-oared Event
and Rowed Dead Heat in
Freshman Eight.

afternoon lowered the colors of the fast
est eight that Harvard has yet produced.
Yale won by four boat lengths. Yale's
time was 1920, Harvard's 20.33
In the four-oared race the colors of Har-
ward were borne to the front, as noted in
yesterdays Star. The Cambridge four won
by two and one-half lengths.
In the freshman race Yale's crew led over
the last mile until within a few feet Of the
finish, where the Harvard crew, by a mag
nifcent squirt, jumped their shell up even
with the Blue. The judges were compelled
to decide that the race was a draw.
Twenty-Five Thousand Spectators.
Twenty-Five thousand persons saw the
Ellis row to victory But while the crowd
was great, 1t was the presence of Presi-
dent Roosevelt which made the crowd
unique in the history of Yale and Har-
ward races. The President saw the finish
of all three races from aboard the Dolphin,
which was anchored just above the finish
line. He declined the invitation of the re-
gatta committee to go aboard Mr.. Cornelius
Vanderbit's launch, the Mirage, preferring.
he said to remain aboard the Dolphin,
where he could be with his family. The
eyes of $4,000 persons meanwhile searched
yacht after yacht in the hope of a glimpse
of the President.
The University Race.
Enthusiasm on the observation train was
so great that the referee had to signal to
the crowd to keep quiet that the crews
might hear the pistol shot. At 500 o'clock
the pistol was fired, and the two university
crews started on their long race. Harvard
got the better of the start, and in ten
strokes had the nose Of her shell quarter
of a length ahead Of the Blues boat. The
Crimson eight had the better water over
the first quarter mile and her men made all
out of 1t that they possibly could.
At the half-mile flag Yale had gone to
the front.
Yale had cut down Harvard's lead while
rowing from two to four strokes fewer to
the minute. Over the next half mile the
powerful crews. The boats zigzagged for
a minute and a half, then the Blue shell
began to creep ahead. tn
Yale's First Mile.
Yale reached the first mile flag in 5:O4,
two seer ds before Harvard. and was two
thirds of length ahead. At the two-mile
flag Yale was leading Harvard by four sec
onds. Yale's time was 10.11, Harvards
1915. - All
Whistles and sirens at the navy yard
shrieked out a welcome to the oarsmen as
they swung down over the next half mile.
The revenue cutter Gresham, in the excite
ment of the moment, lifted her anchor and
started to follow the crews, despite the en-
treaties of the referee and regatta commit
tee to keep back. Yalets time for the two
and half miles was 1912; Harvards,
1217. At the three-milee4Yale led by two
good lengths, her time being 1910 and Har-
wards SIG. -.
There was very little difference in the
power in the two boats, but between the
two strokes there was a decided difference.
Yale did her work with more east than
Harvard. and this was especially true of
the beginning of the stroke. The Harvard
men damned their oars into the water.
while Yale's went in smoothly, but firmly.
Yale reached little farther back on the
catch than Harvard and chopped her stroke
off little quicker at the finish. Harvard's
stroke was the more exhausting.
The Last Mile.
The crews entered the long avenue of
yachts in grand style. Harvards coxswain
dashed little water in the fact of Nc
Graw, who was rowing up to the limit of
MS power. Although there was still an
other mile to go, it was now plain that
Yale had more strength left than Harvard.
ana that, barring an accident, the victory
would be for the Blues Little nv JittIe
Yale increased her lead, until at the three
and -haf mile flag she was nine full sec
onds ahead of Harvard, which means prac-
tically three full boat lengths Yale's time
was 40: Harvard's. 17.49
1t was now a squirt for the last half mile
OF the race. The Harvard coxswain made
a bad mess OF his steering over this Ia ST
mile or the race. Long before the crews
reached the hree-and-a-half mile flag n
was apparent that Jackson steered his eight
almost squarely into the hagpost so that
the oars banged against 1t and the boat lost
the benefit of two or three seconds of time
Harvard was plucky despite the fact that
she was far behind, and gradually her men
struck their pace again and roWed it out
McGraw was reeling In his seat, and Jack
son again and again dashed water in his
face It was only a question of how MANY
lengths Yale would have at the finish.
The Finish. ..,.
Suddenly the flag dropped for Yale The
Blues time was 1920. Harvards time was
2O.33, which gave to Yale the victory by
four good boat lengths
Just as the finish flag fell and Yale's men
stopped rowing, Waterman, the bow in the
Yale boat, dropped limp over the side Of
the smell. 1t looked as though he would
TALL overheard before DAILY, at No. q could
throw water on him and revive him. He
finally got into his seat and rowed over to
the launch with the rest Of the men, Har-
wards oarsmen were all literally pumped
out at the finish
college crews at Poughkeepsie last week
Is interesting:
Cornell. first; time. 1905 s-5 Wisconsin,
second: time. 1913 So Columbia. third;
time, 1889. Pennsylvania. fourth; time
Georgetown. sixth: time, 1882. The record
for the distance is 1858 70. made last year
IL. =
BIG AUTOMOBILE RACE.