Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-06-28

New London, June 26.-ROwing within |
ten seconds Of record time the Yale
Varsity crew this afternoon lowered the |
colors OF the fastest eight that Harvard
has yet produced Yale won by four boat
lengths. Yales time was 900. Harvard's
- p. In the four cared race. the coloTs
OF Harvard were borne to the front The
Cambridge four won by IN lengths.
In the Freshman race. Yaie's crew led
over the last mile within a few feet OF
the finish where the Harvard crew by
a magnificent squirt jumped their shell up
even with the blue. The Judges wers
compelled to decide that the race was
draw.
twenty-five thousand people saw the
Els row 70 victory in the big Varsity
race But while the crowd was great. it
was the presence OF President .-oosevelt
which made the crowd unique in the his
tory OF Yale and Harvard races. The
President saw the finish of all three races
from aboard the Dolphin. which was
anchored Just above the finish line. lie
declined the invitation OF the regatta COM
mittee TO go aboard Cornelius Vanderbiits
launch, the Mirage. preferring. he said.
20 remain aboard the Dolphin. where he
could be with his family. The eyes Of
- 600 people meanwhile searched yacht
after yacht in the hope OF a glimpse OF
the President. After a stormy night ana
morning which seemed 60 mean post
poncmcnt OF the races until Friday, tbs
afternoon finally became cloudleSs to-day
OF almost perfect weather for shell rae
ing The wind blew ouartering on the
course from the northwest. but with the
exception OF the Varsity four oar races.
the creN could not have had much bet
ter water
More yachts than ever before in the
Yaic-HaTvard races on the Thames. were
anchored along the last mile and a hali
OF the course. forming solid avenue and
filling the river from bank 10 bank with 2
glorious tinye OF coiors. which above the
blue waters OF the Thames, made q
beautiful picture against the cloudless
sky The closeness Of the Varsity racs
brought out the greatest crowd or Yale
and Harvard graduates and under gradu'
nses that has ever come 10 new London
while the presence OF the president
brought 10 the river people for many
miles around the Thames Rough watei
necessitated the postponement or th'
Varsity race from 10 o'clock Tbs
VARSITY four cared race was roWed
few minutes before 3 o'clock. The wine
Mt this time was blowing gale an'
Referee william A. Melkieham decides
10 postpone the freshman race also q
postpone the varsity race. The long ob
servation trains on either bank OF IN
river lay alongside OF the starting nag
Filled from end 10 end. not an empt,
seat the two big trains bearing over ooO
people we're bright with the gowns o
pretty women and the colors OF Harvar'
and Yale
Enthusiasm on the observation trai
was so great that the referee had Z
signal 20 the crowd 20 keep duiet 50 tina
the crews mi hit hear the pistol shot a
Soc the pistol was fred and the two bi
shells ieaped away from their SAX
boats Harvard got the best or the star
and in ten strokes had the nose OF ne
shell quarter OF a length ahead Of IN
blues boat.
Harvard started at SO strokes TO n
minute Yale at 90 BY the end OF the fr:
half mile Harvard had driven her strok
20 81 while Yale still held hers at
At the half mile flag. the boats were a
most even over the next half mile N
race was a desperate struggle betwee
two powerful crews. The boats zig-zagge
for a minute and a half and then q
blue shell began 10 creep ahead. va
reached the Srst mile flag In 5:A ~
seconds. before Harvard. The Els wei
two thirds OF a length ahead
At the txso mile Gag Yale was leadir
Harvard by four seconds. Yale's tin
was IO:Ii: Harvard's 1918. Whistles ar
sirens at the navy-yard shrieked out
welcome TO the oarsmcn as they swur
down over the next half mile. Yale ca
ed UP a bit on her stroke and drops
n down 20 81. Harvard seeing Yale r
lax Jumped hers up 20 "a
At the three mile nag Yale led by ~
lengths her time being l5;io. and Harval
l5:ls Then Yale raised her stroke up
80 and Harvard In a desperate EFFORT
hold her own. kept hers at a. There vi
very little difference In the power 10
two boats. but between the two strok
there was a decided difference Yale q
her work with more ease than HarVar
The crews entered the long avenue
yachts In grand style. Harvard's CO
swain dashed a little water In the face
McGraw. who was rowing up to the I'm
OF his Dower. Little by little Yale
creased her lead until at the sls mi
rag she was nine full seconds ahead
Harvard
n was now a squirt for the last h-
mile OF the race. Yale raised her stro
60 q and then TO "a. Harvard held ne
at "a for a minute, but had 20 drop u
last 70 %. The Harvard coxswain made
bad mess OF his steering over this ID
mile OF the race.
Long before the crews reached the
mile flag Il was apparent that Jacks
Fteered his eight almost sduarely ir
the nagpost 50 that the oars bans
neainst n and the boat lost the benent
two or three seconds time Suddenly
nag dropped for Yale. The blues III
was 20:so just ten seconds slower IN
the record made by the famous n
crew OF fSSs Harvard's time was 70
which gave 70 Yale the victory by fc
good boat lengths. Just az the nm
nag fen and Yaie's men stopped rowil
Daily, the bow In the Yale DO
dropped limp over the side Of she sh
He nnaliy got into his seat and roe
Nvsr 20 ths isurch with the rest -
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