The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-07-04
HOW YALE WON
THE THREE RACES
THE STORY OF THE MARVELLOUS
VICTORY OF OLD ELS SONS AT
NEW LONDON.

/ NEW LONDON. Comm. June o.
For the first time on record Yale to-
day triumphed over Harvard in all
three of their boat races i'm the annual
regatta on the Thames The wearerg
of the blue won the eight-oarci varsity
race by three and one-half boat lengths
and the varsity four-oared race by one
| length and a half In all ,hrCa races
Harvard pu up a memorable 1ght and
went down to defeat after gallant
struggles, in which her boys rowc1 cut
the last ounce of their strength.
The official times of the races we're
as follows:
Varsity race-Yale 2O:19 As, Harvard
20:29 3-5.
Varsity four-oared race-Yale 1859
2-5,, Harvard 11:10 1-5.
Yale's three victories are attributed
by the experts to the superiority of the
stroke taught Yale by John Kennedy
over that taught Harvard by her grad
uate coaches. So far as physical form
was concerned, there was no choice be-
tween the crews with the exception
that the Yale freshmen outweighed
their Harvard rivals by over seven
pounds per man. The varsity race was
been conceded to Yale while the four
cared race was also given to Yale in
the great majority of the predictions.
The greatest crowd that ever came to
this quiet old harbor town by rail and
water saw Harvard go down to defeat.
Last night John Kennedy told his
crew that they must strike a 32-per-
minute stroke and hold it right through
the race, no difference what happened.
1t takes good headwork and lots Of
nerve to row a lower stroke than the
other crew when the other crew is lead
ing. But this is just what Yale did
this afternoon. Harvard got away at So
strokes to the minute, Yale at SO. Har-
ward had decidedly the best of the start
and by the end of the first half-mile
was leading Yale by half a length.
Captain McGrew put the stroke up TO
SO. Harvard reached the first flag in
2:30 1-5, Yale in 2:31 3-5. Harvard's
coXswain got out of his course for a
short distance and had narrow es-
cape from hitting the first half-mile
flag.
over the second half-mile Harvard
held her lead over Yale. Stroke Bogue
dropped the Blues stroke to 80. Har-
ward seemed to think that she had a
grip on Yale and Captain McGrew cas-
ed his stroke down to 32.-Harvard's
time for the first mile, sos 3-5; Yale's
| 5,O7 As. 1t was a remarkable coin
cidence that Harvard over this half
mile held her lea5ing without carrying
| it by even a fraction of a second.
The third half-mile however, showed
that Harvard could not hold Yale with
out rowing a higher stroke. Harvar l.
effort on the first mile had begun to
tell on the nerves of the Crimson eight.
Little b. little Yale's boat began to
| creep up. Just before the mile-and-a-
half flag the shells were even and by
the time the flag was rachel Yale aad
taken the lead away from her old rival
The Blue reached the flag in 7:4O, lead-
ing Harvard ov two seconds, or more
than half a length. Harvard rails I'd her
stroke to SO, but still Yale forged ahead
without going hers above So
The long observation trains had been
rafting and roaring with the cheers of
Yale and Harvard. Now it certainly
seemed as though these two moving
grand stands burst into one great
shout for Yale. The coaches had said
that the race would be over at the hale
way point, but it was not So. Yale
reached the two-mile flag off the Navy
Yard in 1902, with Harvard ha,o on
her heels, only GA 2-5 behind. There
was just half a length of clear water
between the two shells.
Harvard was not yet whipped. She
had held her stroke at 80, while Yale.
after getting the lead. had dropped to
81. The crimson eight were rowing
without break and their long, easy
stroke still looking powerful. The only
question was whether Harvard could
put her stroke up again AMI hold it
for mile more. The next half mile
decided this question. Instead of
raising her stroke, Harvard was com
PEELED to drop back to Yale's gait at
81. The result was that Yale reached
the two and half mile flag in 1928 1-5
leading Harvard by 0:6 4-5. Then, for
the first time, Yale began to look rea-
sonably sure of a victory. She was
leading the Crimson by just a trif1e
less than two boat lengths.
At the three-mile flag Yale had in
creased her lead to nine seconds, and
had practically won the race. Yale's
time for the three miles was 14:5O 2-5;
Harvard's 14:59 2-5. Harvard, in pass
ing the three-mile flag, made her last
squirt to get back the lead Although
he was Keeling in his stretcher and the
Harvard crew was splashing water in
his face, Captain McGrew raised his
stroke to "a to the minute but even
at that gait Harvard could not catch
Yale For few strokes the Harvard
gTaf
three and a half mile flag was reached
captain McGrew had been compelled
to drop back to a 80 gait. Harvard
was now tired and Yale began to
gain on every stroke. Yale's time for
the three and half miles, 1921 So;
Harvard, 1894 40. over this half
mile Yale had increased her lead by
four and fifth seconds