Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-27
YALE IND HARVARD.
Yale Takes the Big Race and
 Harvard the Four Dared.

50 Fast That Several or Eacn crew Collapsed in the Varsity Race. New London, June 27.-When the Yale crew of 1902 swung fiercely down the long lane of cannonading yachts across the finishing line nearly four | lengths ahead of Harvard there had 1 been rowed one of the finest races in the history of the storied New London 1 course. Because of rough water the struggle had to be postponed two hours and was not started until a few min utes after 6 o'clock. Because of this delay it was almost dead water, and prevented the smashing of the four mile record which has stood at the twenty minutes and ten seconds for l fourteen years.
 l This victorious Yale eight had hoped l to set a new mark and under fair con-
 ditions would have rowed well within
 twenty minutes. As it was, the dark l blue was only ten seconds behind the
 best performance and yesterdays fig l llres of twenty minutes and twenty
 seconds, under the conditions, stamped
 this eight as one of the fastest and l strongest that ever drove racing
 shell.
 Ill this high praise Harvard deserves | d GtuorOuS SlltlI6 IOl luC ldSC- AOfNSNl by the Crimson yesterday makes it as
 accurate to state that no better crew ever canie down from Cambridge, and that they would have whipped any thing but a phenomenally fast Yale ag-
 gregation.
 There was no sensational features ln the race It was a struggle thrilling to see for the first two miles, While Harvard hopes were still riotous and
 Yale had not been able to wrench more
 than half a boat length of supremacy
 down the long stretch of the shining
 stream.
 McGrew. the Cambridge stroke, had
 spurted magnificently at the three half
 mile flags already passed. and his
 straining men had backed him up.
 Each of these times the extra effort
 had caused the jumping nose Of the
 Harvard shell to creep up foot by foot . almost to even terms, while from the
 trailing observation trains on either
 bank, Harvard cheers had shattered
 the twilight calm of the rural country
 side
 But each time these spurts had told terribly upon the reserved strength of the men, and their boat had fallen back while the long machine like swing of
 the Yale giants, rowing slower ana less killing stroke, had pushed them remorselessly to the front again. Elk cept on the start. and for the first few
 hundred yards. Harvard never had lead and could do no more than hang on the flank of her adversary, and re
 fused to be shaken off over the first ; two miles of fhe course.
 The last two miles became naturally : the second chapter of the story of yes-
 terday's great race. From the Navy , Yard, which marks the middle of this l four mile stretch. all the weary way ? to the finish, Yale showed more and more her superior power and speed $ and drew away so certainly and stead : ily that all doubt of the result was ta 7 ken away.
 - Each mile now showed the dark blue . a length further in the lead. and it was Q seen by even the widest Harvard en c thusiast that nothing in the natura
 course of events could reverse the yer
 diet written in the history of American
 rowing as soon as the Navy Yard hat e been put astern of the crouching cox : swains. > Although to the thousands on tn q shore the race was lost and won in tn
 middle of it's course, not so with thos ' eight young heroes in the Harvard l. shell. Not a man faltered or weaken l. ed in q single stroke, and the ueleate' y eight swept down to the finish me
 rowing with smoothness and hnlsI 1t every man doing his work honesIi c. and straining his very heart as II Il $. did not know that it all was tragic an e hopeless. k + was now a spurt for the last hal
 milo of the race. Yale raised her r. stroke to B and then to 34. Haryar 70 held hers at 34 for minute, but had [ . dron if at last to 32 The Harvard COX r swain made a bad mess of his steer + inc over the last mile of the ra'
 Tong before the crews reached tn
 tbree-and-a-half mile flag it was appal u ant that Jackson. the Harvard coz y swain. was going to run his crew lnt U the outside flag of Harvard's cours' = X hundred voices thundered forth warning, but it was too late. Jackso
 steered his eight almost squarely ont ed the fiagpost, so that the oars Dange oI against it, and the boat lost the benel lg of two or three seconds at the llm 70 Harvard was plucky, despite the fa' Iy she was far behind and gradually the 70 str,,ck their pace again and rOwed
 out. McGrew was reeling in his sea D. and Jackson again and again dashe e. water in his face. Suddenly the fla is dropped for Yale.
 )i- The blues time was 2O20, just te It. seconds slower than the record mad CT by the famous Yale crew of 1888. Ha h. yards time was 20.33, which gave he Yale the victory by four good bo' or lengths Just as the finish flag fe ra and Yale's men stopped rowing, Dal yo the bow in the Yale boat. dropped lin st over the side of the shell. It 1ooke as as though he would fall overboal 70 before Daily, at No ?, could throw " lx ter on him and revive him. Harvard . oarsmen all were literally pumped ol
 at the finish.
 1i-
 ,a Meantime the four pared crew 1v Yale and Harvard raced over the fir an two miles, their course being well u nv der the left bank, where the water W: iii smooth enough for a shell 10 i've. Th an four pared race was a detail of the a nh ternoon's sport, but mighty consoliI he as an omen for Harvard, as the cri1
 son crew won with ease. pulling aws
 from the start, with Yale strugglil
 farther and farther in the rear.
 At the one mile flags the Harya1