The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-26

and forty seconds, leading Harvard by two second for more than half a boat length. Harvard raised her stroke to 8 but still Yale went ahead without sraising hers above 32.
 The long observation trains, trailing out on either side of the broad Thames like two beautiful colored serpents bOr- dering a strip of silver, had been rat ting 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. Blue flags waved and fiuttered until it seemed as though sec l tions of the sky line had been changed from gray to the blue of the brightest skies. Yale's nerves, which had been
 high strung for days over this race, which unquestionably worried the Ellis
 more than any that they have rowed in
 number of years, were now restored
 by the sudden flush of a glimpse of victory
 The coachers had said that the race would be owe" ct the half way point but it was not. Yale reached the two mifile flag off the navy yard in ten minutes th-ee seconds. with Harvard hard on her heels. only four and two- fifth seconds behind. There was just about half boat length of clear water between the two shells. Harvard was
 not yet whipped. She had held her stroke at 8. while Yale, after getting the lead. had dropped hers down to 31. The crimson eight was rowing without a break and their long easy stroke still
 loked powerful. The only question was whether Harvard could put her stroke up again and hold it for mile more.
 The next half mile decided this question. Instead os raising her stroke Harvard was compelled to drop back to Yale's gait Of 32. The result was that Yale l reached the two and half mile flag in
 F minutes 26 Is seconds, leading Har- yard by 45 seconds. Then for the first time Yale began to look reasonably sure of victory. She was leading the l crimson by just trifle less than two boat lengths. At the three mile flag Yale had increased her lead to nine ssc- l onds, and had practically won the race. l Yale's time for the three miles was 14 l minutes 50 2-5 seconds, Harvard If min- utes 59 2-5 seconds. Harvard, in pass | ing the three mile flag. made her last spurt to get back her lead. Although he was reeling in his stretcher and the Harvard coXsWain was splashing water in his :ace Captain McGrew raised his | stroke up to 34 to the minute, but even at that gain Harvard could not catch Yale. For 9 :ew strokes the Harvard shell gained a trifie but before the three
 and half mile flag was reacher Cap tain McGrew had been compelled to drop back to a 32 gait.
 Harvard was now tired and Yale be- gans to gain on every stroke. Yale time for the three and half miles was 17.21 S-5: Harvard. 17.34 4-5. Over this half mile Yaie had increased her lead
 by four and fifth seconds. It was now only a question Of boat lengths. Harvard cheers had died away on the observation train and the broad Thames now resounded with one grand Yale, Yale. Yale.'' while from the decks of two hundred yachts the cannon were booming forth in salute to the victory and bravo for the vanquished. The Ellis were yelling sor new record. They considered that they already had the victor in their hands. Finally the flag dropped at the finish and the Watches recorded 2O:19 4-5 for Yale; 2o:29 s-5 for Harvard. It was Yale'se race by three good boat, lengths,3:a close hard finish within nine and four-fifth seconds of the fastest time that any crew ever made on the Thames course. The ex- perts had made no mistake when they said that both universities had unusu- ally fast eights, and likewise they had not been wrong when they prophesied desperate race with a narrow margin for the winner.
 Caotain McGrew., who had rowed for
 Harvard as gallant race as any man ever rowed sor any college, fell over limp on his oar while Duffy sank down l in the shell from sheer exhaustion, Swain at bow had also rowed out the last ounce Of his power and his oar slipped from his hands. Yale, strong with the nerve which victory gives, pulled on below the great drawbridge | for two or three boat lengths before her coxswain called his men. to rest. Then a remarkable incident happened. Stroke Bogue, who had rowed like a demon all the way. threw his oar out from his chest and sprang from his seat into the river. "A man overboard!" yelled the crowd, as Rogue came up from his plunge and struck out like race horse to met the Yale launch which was com- ing down the course. Head Coach Kun- zig and John Kennedy met Bogue half way and with strong arms pulled him into the launch. The Yale stroke, after
 that long race, was apparently as fresh as when he started into it.
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