Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-27
YALE WINS BIG VARSITY
Lowers the-OolOrs Of the Fastest Eight that
Harvard Has Yet Produced.
HARVARD TAKES FoUR-oARED RACE
Fresbmen's Contest Proves n Dead
Heat by Crew of Harvard MAX
ing Magnificent squirt Near
End of Course.

the fastest eight that Harvard has yet pro-
duced. Yale won by four boat lengths
Yales time was 2O:2O, Harvard's 2o33.
| In the four cared race the colors of Har-
ward were borne to the front. The Cam
bridge four won by two and one-half
| lengths.
In the freshmen race Yale's crew led over
the last mile until within few feet Of the
finish, where the Harvard crew by a mag
nifcent spurt jumped their shell up even
| with the blue The judges we're compelled
| to decide that the race was draw.
Twenty-Five thousand people saw the ELS
| row to victory in the big varsity race.
But while the crowd was great it was the
presence OF President Roosevelt which
made the crowd unique in the history Of
Yale and Harvard races. The president
saw the finish Of all three races from
aboard Dolphin. which was anchored
just above the finish line. He declined the
| invitation of the regatta committee to go
| aboard Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt's launch,
Mirage, preferring, be said to remain
aboard Dolphin where he could be with
his family. The eyes OF rs. 900 people mean
while searched yacht after yacht in the
hope of a glimpse of the PRESIDENT
Good weather Finally Comes.
AlleT nlBuL anu huOIhihB
which seemed to mean postponement of the
races until Friday, the afternoon finally be-
came a cloudless day Of almost perfect
| weather for shell racing. The wind blew
quartering on the course from the north
! west, but with the exception of the varsity
four oar race the crews could not have had
much better water. More yachts than ever
| before in the quarter of a century Of Yale
| Harvard races on the broad Thames were
anchored along the last mile and a half OF
| the course, forming a solid avenue and fill-
| ing the river from bank to bank with
glorious tInge Ct colors, which above the
blue waters Of the Thames made a beautiful
| picture against the cloudless sky. The
closeness Of the varsity race brought out
the greatest crowd of Yale and Harvard
graduates and undergraduates that has
ever come to New London, while the pres
| ence of the president brought to the river
the people for many miles around. Rough
water necessitated the postponement of the
varsity race from until o'clock.
The varsity four-oared race was rowed a
few minutes before o'clock. The wind at
this time was blowing a gale and Referee
william A. Meikleham decided to postpone
! the freshman race and also to postpone the
| varsity race. quarter before 6 o'clock
August Belmont's launch, Scout. and blew
long blast OF the whistle. notifying the
| crews to get ready. The long observation
trains on either bank OF the river were by
! this time flying alongside of the starting
| flag Filled from end to end, not an empty
| seat the two big trains, bearing over 5000
| people, were bright with the gowns Of
| pretty women and the colors OF Harvard
and Yale. Mighty cheers resounded among
the green hills of Montville and Gales Ferry
as the Harvard eight rowed over to the
start, FIVE minutes before o'clock.
Shells Leap Away.
| Yale was trife slow in leaving its boat
house and Referee Meikleham notified the
Ellis a second time. BY 6o7 both crews
were at their boats. Enthusiasm on the
observation train was so great that the
referee had to signal to the crowd to keep
quiet so that the crews might hear the
| pistol shots. At 6:09 the pistol was fred
and the two big shells leaped away from
| their stakeboats. Harvard got the best Of
| the start and in ten strokes had the nose Of
| its she'll a quarter of length ahead Of the
! Blues boat The crimson's eight had the
best water over the first quarter mile and
its men made all out of It that they pos
sibly could.
Harvard started at thirty-si strokes to
the minute, Yale at thirty-two. BY the
end of the first half mile Harvard had
dropped its stroke to thirty-four, while
Yale still held its stroke at thirty two.
At the half mile flag the boats were almost
even. The watches on the referees boat
recorded Yale's time for this half mile at
2:2sh, Harvard at 2;29%. Yale had cut
down Harvard's lead while rowing from
/ to f1VYr =, aNr
/ over the next half mile the race was a
desperate struggle between two powerful
| crews. The boats zigzagged for a minute
and half, and then the blue shell began
to creep ahead. Yale reached the first
mile flag in 5:04, two seconds before Har-
ward. The Ellis were two thirds OF length
| ahead. Yale had dropped its stroke to
thirty-one per minute and, Harvard had let
| its stroke down to thirty-two. II had been
a terrible fight, but Yale had finally gotten
the lead.
From the end Of the first mile to the
mile and a half flag the boats scarcely
changed positions. Harvard raised its
stroke one point, and so did Yale. The
blue she'll finished the mile and a half in
1887. Harvard in 1894. over this dis
tance Yale had gained but half a second.
On toward the two-mile flag the powerful
| elsnts swung Win mecnanlcal precision at
| the pace of giants. Harvard dropped its
stroke back to thirty-two. and now the
two strokes swung In exact unison. But
all the while the Yale shell kept creeping
little bit ahead. At the two-mile nag
Yale was leading Harvard by four seconds
! Yale's time was 10l1. Haryard's 1915.
Whistles and sirens at the navy yard
shrieked out a welcome to the oarsmen az
they swung down the next half mile. The
revenue cutter Gresham In the excitement
of the moment lifted its 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 its
stroke and dropped it down TO thirty-one.
Harvard seeing Yale relax jumped its up
| to thirty-four. But despite this squirt Yale
picked up another second between the mile
and the two-and- a -half-mile hags. Yals's
time for the two-and-a a half nag was 12 IL,
| Harvards 1917.
over the next mile the Blues picked up
just another second in the struggle for su-
premacy At the three-mile Yale led by
two good lengths, its time being 1910 and
| HarvArd's 1915. Then Yale raised its
stroke 10 thirty-two and Harvard in a des-
perate EFFORT to hold it's own kept its at