The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-26
VICTORIES
FOR YALE
Took All Three Events from
Fair Harvard.
PULLED A BETTER STROKE
The Els in the Big Event Started at a
80 to the Minute Gait, ard Main
tanned it Until Winning Flag
Was Passed.
fBy Associated press.)

NEW LONDON, CONN. June 25.----
For tho first time on record Yale to-day
trlumphed over Harvard In all three OF
their boat races III the annual regatta
on the Thames. The wearers OF the
Blue won the eight cared Varsity by
three and one-half boat lengths. the
Freshman efght-oared race by two and
cared race by ono and half lengths.
In all three races Harvard put up a
memorable fight and went down to de-
feat after gallant struggles, In which
her boys rowcd out the last ounce OF
their strength.
The ofhcial time for the races was as
follows:
seconds; Harvard, 90 minutes % 3-5
seconds :,
Varsity four-oared race--Yale. 10
minutes 1925 seconds; Harvard, II
minutes 1o1-5 seconds.
Yalc's three victories are attributed BY
the experts to the superiority OF tho
stroke taught Yale by John Kennedy
over that taught Harvard oy her graau,
ate coaches. SO far rs physical form
was concerned. there was no choice pc
tween the crews. except with the pos
siblc exception that the Yale Freshmen
IoutweIehed their rivals over Z pounds
to the man. The Varsity was sur
prise The Freshman race had DeeI
conceded to Yale. while the four oarea
race was also given to Yale IN the great
majority OF tho predictions.
GREAT CROWD.
The greatest crowd that ever came 70
this quiet old harbor town by ran anu
water, saw Harvard go down to dereat'
The sky was dull and leaden. with the
wind cold enough for October.
Referee William NJ Ikelham. the old
Columbian oarsman, at 1880 notified the
crews to get ready In three minutes
time the Varsity four-oared was begun
and by half past one the big VARSITY
race was under way. The three events
for which the blue and the crimson had
trained for six months had been disposed
OF In a trlae over two hours without a
break or 3, single incident to mar any one
OF the races. The story OF the varsity
race will 1.-Two long in the annals OF col
lege boating Harvard led Yale almost to
the milo and a half nag. Over the first
mile It looked like Harvard's race, For
the past ten days the coaches OF ooth
crews have said that tho race would pc
finished within the first two miles.
STEADY STROKE.
Last night John Kennedy told his crew
that they must strike thlrty.tWo per
minute stroke, and hold to It right
through the race, no difference what
happened, It takes good head work and
lots of nerve to row lower stroke than
tho other crew when the other crew is
leading, but this Is Just about what Yale
did this afternoon, Harvard got away at
IS strokes to the minute. Yale at Sc. Har.
ward had decidedly the best OF the start.
and by the end of the first half mile
was leading Yale by half boat length.
over the second half Harvard held
her lead over Yale. Harvard seem.
cd to think that she had grip on
Yale, and Captain McGrew eased his
stroke down to SO.
The third half mile, however showed
that Harvard could not hold Yale with
out rowing a. higher stroke. Harvard s
effort over the first mile had begun to
tell on the nerve of the Crimson's eight.
Little by little Yale's boat began TO creep
up on Harvard's, Just before the mile
and a half flag the shells We're even, and
by the time the fag was reached Yale
had wresed the lead away from her old
rival.
Al the three mile flag Yale had In
creased her lead to nine seconds and had
practically won the race. Harvard, in
passing the three mile flag. made her last
squirt to get back her lead. Although ne
was Keeling in his stretcher and the Har-
ward crew was splashlng water In his
face, Captain McGraw raised his stroke
UP to thirty-fOur 10 Inc minute pul even
at that gain Harvard could not catch
Yale For a few strokes the Harvard
shell gained trihe, but before the three
and a half mile flag was reached Cap
tain McGraw had been compelled to drop
back to thirty-two gait, Harvard was
now tired, and Yale began TO gain on
M - CHEERS FOR YALE.
It was now only question OF boat
lengths, Harvard cheers had died away,
and the broad Thames now resounded
with one grand yale! Yale! Yale.' while
from the decks of two hundred yachts
the cannon We're booming for salute ia
3tne victor and a bravo for the van
ouished. Finally the flag dropped. y
was Yales race by three good boat
lengths.
Harvard as gallant a race as any man
ever rowed for any college, fell over
limp on his oar. while Duffy sank down
lin the she'll from sheer exhaustion,
Swain, at bow, had also rowed out the
last ounce of his power, and his oar
slipped from his hand, Yale. strong
with the nerve which victory gives, pulled
on below the great drawbridge for two or
three boat lengths before her coNswain
called his men to rest
The story OF the freshmen race is that