New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-02
YALE By SEVEN LENGTHS.
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allowed to be unpardonably tardy once more.
and 1t was II o'clock, half an bour babin5
time. when the Elihu Yale steamed into sight
towing the Yale she'll and carving the Yale
crew, and sheered of into dead water near
'he eastern shore. preparatory To getting the
crew afioat The John Harvard came down a
rev minutes later with the Cambridge eight
aboard and in a few minutes the oarsmen were
IN their seats Harvard was a trife tb. more
prompt, and her shell was first TO come driving
down toward the start while the wearers of the
crimson did their best to give the eight an ar-
propriate reception.
YALE ADMIRERS NUMEROUS.
The Yale admirers were bove,-9r 20, NOR,
numerous aboard the train. aud their welcome
10 the New Haven crew when it came shoot
ing Tor the bridge was quite I'm their best
manner while the flags of blue waved frantf-
cally and the blue balloons bobbed in svrnpatbv
Miss Alice Roosevelt occupied front row seat
among a Yale contingent and wore a bouquet
or bachelors buttons. Observation OF the fleet
surrounding the start showed it to have rinin-
ished about 30 per cent overnight. There were
no excursion steamers at all any MANY of the
steam yachts had got anchors up and dfsap-
peared.
There was no delay worth mentioning after
the crews lined up for the start. and at 1116
Referee Meikleham addressed the fateful oues-
ton. Are you ready-an?" At the crack Of the
pistol Harvard caught the water dust fraction
OF second first. That fraction Of a second
was very nearly the only instant of the race
where the Cambridge crew looked the winner.
with a rush the referees boat the commit
tees boat and the Harvard and Yale launches
dashed off in pursuit of the two crews the two
observation trains. with shrieking whistles. got
and in
JUST A PROCESSION.
A procession it was. from first to last. Even
from the rear, before the observation train had
swung around the curve and came abreast of
the racers. it was apparent making due allow
ance for the angle that the New-Hayep oars
men had got the nose OF their shell In advance
though the margin OF their lead was uncertain
"hen the train drew up alongside however a
terrific roar from the rafting cars underscored
the TACT that Yale was already full length to
the good and at the half mile flag open water
began to show between the two shells
AFTER the first squirt of the getting under way
Yale dropped at once into steady thirty-two
stroke and never once did she vary It until the
finish gun roared. Harvard. on the contrary.
several times raised her stroke as high as
thirty-six to the minute in vain ATTEMPT TO
close the ever widening gap
From the very first it was all too plain that
Harvard was beaten before the race began.
her shell hung between strokes. and there was
no! no me IN the BOAT Yale pulled her stroke
through better and her catch had much the
more dash and bite" Harvard's waterman
ship was good enough. but the boat was dead
1t did not run we'll between strokes and that
was all there was TO it COlson who came from
Cornell 10 teach Harvard the Courtney stroke
was watching every move Of his pupils from
the launch John Harvard. He must have been
wofully disappointed. for In the days Of his
coxswainship he never faced a Cornell crew
whose boat dragged as did Harvard's to-day.
RACE NOT INSPIRING.
AS a spectacle the race was not inspiring.
There were simply two boats. one in front and
steadily gaining. the other IabCring pIuckily
but vainly to keep from falling fuaher behind
At the mile Yale was fully two lengths to the
good; at the mile and half her lead was half
a length greater: the two mile flag found her
three clear lengths ahead; the next half mile
made It four lengths. still rowing that steady
clean 81; with three miles left behind they
were five and a half lengths between the
shells. The last half mile saw Harvard's
strength ooze rapidly out and she was seven
lengths aStern when Yale caught the finish fag.
Both crews ran into rOUgher water in the
final half mile and there was considerable
splashing in both boats while II looked from the
train as if Flint at No > in the Harvard she'll
caught crab. The rival Fights both finished
In good condition. all sixteen Of the Oarsnen
were sitting up and rowing. and Yale's crew at
once shot straight across tha river to the train
ing quarters at Broadvisw. Harvard. too,
padded down to Red Top, where q small, de-
pressed gathering of the faithful awaited them
There was a good deal of jubilation among
the Yale enthusiasts aboard the trains, but
Harvard's partisans died game and not by
any means nOlseless death.
After the race both crews held meetings at
their training quarters and chose captains
for next year. Harvard's choice was 0. d.
Filley. 'O6 who rowed III a Harvard shell.
Yale's new captain is y. c. Whittier who
pulled No. in to-day's victorious crew. He
was also member of last years crew.