The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-27
A TRIO OF TRIUMPHS
Yale Superiority of Stroke
Enough to Turn Harvard
Green.
(By the Assoeiated pressl

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first time on record Yale today triumphed
over Harvard in all three OF their boat
races in the annual regatta on the Thames.
The wearers of the blue won the eight
Dared Varsity by three and one half boat
lengths, the freshmen eight-oared race bv
two and quarter lengths and the Varsity
! fouroared race by one and 4 half length
In all three races Harvard put up 4 mem
orable fight and went down to defeat af
4 ter gallant struggles, in which her boys
rowed out the last ounce Of their strength
! The official time of the races was as fol-
/ lows:
Varsity race: Yale 20 minutes, 10 4-5
seconds; Harvard 20 minutes. 80 s5 sec
onds.
Freshman race: Yale minutes. 4S Is
seconds; Harvard minutes 48 3-5.
/ Varsity four-oared race: Yale 10 min
utes. SO 25 seconds Harvard IL minutes.
10 Is seconds.
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 graduate coaches.
Last night John Kennedy told his crew
that they must strike a thirty-two per
minute stroke and hold it right through
the race, no matter what happened
1t takes good head work and lots of nerve
to row a lower stroke than the other
crew when the other crew is leading, but
this is just about what Yale did this
afternoon. Harvard got away at thirty
five strokes to the minute, Yale at thirty
two. Harvard had decidedly the best of
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mile was leading Yaye by half a boats
length. Over the second half mile Har-
ward held her lead over Yale. Harvard
seemed to think that she had a grip on
Yale. and Captain McGraw eased his
stroke down to thirty-two.
The third half mile, however. showed
that Harvard could not hold Yale without
rowing 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 rp on
Harvard's Just before the mile and a
half flag the shells We're even. and by
the time the flag was reached. Yale had
Wrested the lead away from 4Ier old rival
At 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 he
was Keeling in his stretcher and the Har-
ward crew was splashing water in his face
Captain McGraw raised his stroke up to
thIrty-four to the minute. but even at
that gait Harvard could not catch Yale.
For a few strokes Harvard gained
trifie, but before the three and a half
mile flag was reached Captain McGraw
had been compelled to drop back to a
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and fale began to gain on every stroke.
1t was now only a question of boat
lengths. Harvard cheers had died away
and the broad Thames now resounded
with one grand yale! Yale! Valet while
from the decks OF two hundred yachts,
the cannon were booming for the salute TO
the victor and q bravo for the van
pushed Finally the flag dropped Il
was Yale's race by three good boat
lengths.
Captain McGraw, who had rowed for
Harvard as gallant race as any man
ever rowed for any college, fell over limp
on his oar, while Duffy sank down 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 be-
low the great drawbridge for two or
three boat lengths before her eoxswain
called his men to rest.
The story of the freshman race is that
of long spring by Yale's stalwart young
sters with Harvard clinging to their
heels in a plucky fight. In this race as
in the varsity race Hazard rowed o
higher stroke than Yale. while the latter
took thirty-two to the minute gait and
hung to it witt scarcely variation of
the stroke in the whole two miles Yale
got the best of the start and never lost
the lead
Yale led Harvard at the finish by just
about one and a quarter boat lengths.
In the Varsity four oar event Harvard
gave Yale another terrific struggle In
this race the Ellis had to make vigorous
fight to get the lead
Yale won the race by one and a half