The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-27
YALE THE VICTOR
WON VARSITY OVER HARVARD BY
FOUR LENGTHS.
PRESIDENT SAW THE RACE.
HARVARD WON FOUR-OARED, THE
FRESHMAN A DRAW.

Was Fa"test Eight Harvard Ever
Produced, Yet Vale Won by Four
Boat Lengths Ia 20:20, Being Ten
seconds Below Record Time-Har-
Nnrd started on in the Lead and
Made "A Gallant Fight. but Her
Team Could Not stand the Racket
aud Finished in Had Shnpe-Presi-
dent Roosevelt Was Present
Aboard the Dolphin.
New London, Conn, June 26.-Row-
ing 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. Yale's time
was 1920, Harvard's 20:33. In the
four-oared race the colors of Harvard
were borne to the front. The Cam
bridge four won ~ 2l4 lengths. Har-
wards time was 11:19h, Yale's 11:25h.
In the Freshman race. Yale's crew
led over the last mile until within a
few feet of the finish, where the Har-
ward crew. by a magnificent squirt,
jumped their shell up even with the
Blue. The judges were compelled to
decide that the race a draw. The time
was 1913.
Twenty-Five thousand people saw the
Ellis row to victory in the big varsity
race. But while the crowd was great
1t was the presence of President Roose-
welt which made the crowd unique in
the history 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 committee to go aboard
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilts launch, the
Mirage, preferring. he said, to remain
aboard the Dolphin. where he could be
with his family. The eyes of $4,000
people meanwhile searched yacht after
yacht in the hope of a glimpse of the
President.
After a stormy night and a morning
which seemed TO mean postponement OF
the races until Friday, the afternoon
finally became cloudless day of all
most perfect weather for shell racing.
Harvard Got the Lead.
Both Varsity and freshman races
were delayed by the wind until after
o'clock. In the Varsity, Harvard
got the best of the start and In ten
strokes had the nose Of her shell a
quarter Of a length ahead OF the Blues
boat. It was desperate struggle for
the first mile, when Yale reached the
flag two seconds ahead of Harvard
This lead Yale constantly increased to
the end. At the three-mile flag Yale
he Vel \
her stroke up to 80. and Harvard. in
a desperate effort to hold her own, kept
hers at "a. There was very little differ
ence in the power of the two boats but
between the two strokes there was a
decided difference. Yale did her work
with more ease than Harvard The
crews entered the long avenue OF
yachts in grand style. Harvard's cox
swain dashed little water in the face
of McGraw who was rowing up to the
limit of his power.
Harvard Weakens.
1t was now squirt for the last half
mile of the race. Yale raised her
stroke to 80, and then to "a. Harvard
held hers at "a for a minute, but had
to drop 1t at last to 49, The Harvard
coxswain made a bad mess of his
steering over this last mile of the race.
Jackson again and again dashed water
in his face. 1t was only a question
of how many lengths Yale would have
at the finish. Suddenly the nag
dropped for Yale. The Blues time
was 20:20, just ten seconds slower than
the record made by the famous Yale
crew in 1888.
Harvard's 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, DAILY,
the bow in the Yale boat, dropped
limp over the side of the shell. He
finally got into his seat and rowed
over to the launch with the rest of the
men. Harvard's oarsmen were all lit