The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-27
 YALE VARSITY WINS
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| l half flag the boats scarcely changed po- | sitions. Harvard raised her stroke one | point and so did Yale. The blue shel finished the mile and a half in 7:37, Har- ward in T;39 1-2. Over this distance Yale had gained but half second. On towards the two mile flag the powerful l eights swung with mechanical precision at the pace of giants, Harvard drop Fer her stroke back to 32 and now the two strokes swung in exact unison. But all the while the Yale shell kept creep ing a little bit ahead. At the two mile flag, which is the half way point in the race Yale was leading Harvard by four | seconds. Yale's time was 10:11, Har- wards 10;15. 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 excitement of the moment lifted her anchor and started to
 follow the crews, despite the entreaties
 of the referee and regatta committee to
 keep back Yale eased up a bit on her stroke and dropped it down to 31. liar
 ward seeing Yale relax jumped hers up
 to 34. But despite this squirt Yale pick
 ed up another second between the two
 mile and the two and a half mile flag.
 Yales time for the 1-2 miles was 12;12,
 HarVards, 12:17.
 Over the next half mile the blue crew
 picked just another second in the strug-
 gle for the supremacy. At the three mile Yale led by two good lengths, her
 time being 15:10, and Harvard's 15:16
 Then Yale raised her stroke up to S2
 and Harvard in a desperate effort to
 hold her own kept hers at 34. 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 ease than Harvard and this was especially true of the beginning of the stroke. The Har- ward men damned their oars into the water while Yales went in smoothly but firmly. Yale reached little fur ther back on the catch than Harvard and chopped her stroke off a little quicker a the finish.
 Harvard's stroke was more exhaust ing than Yale's.
 The crews entered the long avenue of yachts in great style. Harvard's coxswain dashed a little water in the face of McGrew, who was rowing up to the limit of his power. Although there was still another mile to go it was now plain that Yale had more, strength left than Harvard and that barring an acci- dent the victory would be for the blue. Little by little Yale increased her lead until at the three and a half mile flag she was nine full seconds ahead of Har- ward, which means practically three full boat lengths Yales time was l7:40, Harvard's 17;49.
 It was now a spurt for the last half mile of the race. Yale raised her stroke to 39 and then to 34, Harvard held hers at 34 for minute, but had to drop it at last two 32 The Harvard cox swain made a bad mess of his steering over this last mile of the race. Long before the crews reached the three and a half mile flag it was apparent that Jackson, the Harvard coxswain, was going to run his crew into the outside flag of Harvards course. A hundred voices thundered forth warning, but 1t was too late. Jackson steered his eight almost squarely onto the flag post, so that the oars banged abainst it and the boat lost the benefit of two or three sec onds of time Harvard was plucky de- spite the fact that she was far behind and gradually her men struck their pace again and rowed it out. McGreW was reeling in his seat and Jackson again and again dashed water in his face. It was only a question of how many lengths Yale would have at the finish Suddenly the flag dropped for Yale. The blues time was 20:20 just ten seconds slower than the record made by the famous crew of 1888.
 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 Daly, at No } in the Yale boat, dropped limp over the side of the shell, and 1t looked as though he would fall overheard before the bow, could throw water ,n him and revive him, He finally got Into his seat and rowed over to the launch with the rest of the men. Har- yards oarsmen were all literally pump ,d out at the finish
 The story of the freshman race is cas- ly told for the first mile. The Yale tight got away al 34 strokes to the min- lte. Harvard at 36. The Yale boys got he best of the start and held it. Yale finished the first half mile in 1:55, Har- yard in 1857.
 Yale eased her stroke down to 30, and | Harvard made hers 32. The New Ha- yen freshmen finished the mile in 4:f9, ust one length ahead of their Harvard | cousins. who finished in 4:52. Harvard | still held her stroke at 32 and Yale at | 70. Just beyond the mile flag the Har- yard boys began to spurt. Little by l title they cut down Yale's lead until l if the mile and a half flag they were | eading Yale. Harvard's time for the ] nile and half was 7:27 and Yale's | :29. Harvard was now almost length , lhead.
 The crimson's eight put their stroke ID to 34, but the Yale boys still held | heirs at 30. The boats Zig-zagged be- l ween the strokes for the next minute IntiI they were almost even. T hen Yale l a little, but soon she regain d control of her boat and once more he shells were practically even. The Harvard boys put their stroke up to 36 1 nd Yale raised hfers to 32 in one of the .randest fights ever seen on any river ,etWeen freshmen crews. The flags at
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