Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-02
Defeats Aarvardiin Eight
CARED Contest.
But Loses -Four. Cared Contest
by An Accident.
Blue Shows Superiority Over Crimson
at All Stages Of the Proceedinqs-|
Events Run OFF in a Most BunaI;no
Manner.

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boat race from Harvard. TODAY and
crowned a year that has been renlete
with brilliant athletic achievements.
she proved, as she has done MANY times
| be1ore, her superiority In everything
that goes to make n perfect crew-skilI
with sweeps. sesnnansliip ana, nhvsi-
cal endurance. Her victory in the var
sity race. considered with her grand
battle in the four-oared race which
she lost through an accident when II
looked like walk-over for her and tba
win OF her freshman eight, yesterday. in
magnificent struggle. makes it fair
TO say that she completely outclassed
her rivals from Massachusetts.
| NO regatta ever held on the Thames
1 course was more worth seeing and none
proved such a cruel disappointment 10
| spectators through the bnngling man
ner in which the events were managed
| In the Varsity Fights both Yale and
Harvard had phenonenally fast and
powerful crews and while no record was
broken Or even threatened the strug-
gle was. as anticipated, that of young
| giants.
In the four-oared race the defeat of
Yale was due To the breaking of a lock
on the Out-rigger of Fish's oar. Har-
wards hollow victory accordingly was
| brought into greater contrast through
tho superb work of her rival. An Incl
dent occurred in connection with this
race, but its bearing on the outcome
is not considered TO have been material
Swain, Who rowcd No. 8, in the IIar-
ward boat, collapsed just as the crew
was called out and John Dowditch,
who never had filled that seat. went in
to the boat. He was not in tip-top con-
dition. having suffered n fortnight ago
with an attack of the measles.
The official times of the finish of the
three events which now constitute the
| annual competition. including the fresh
| man race of yesterday, were as follows:
| FRESHMAN EIGHTs-TWO MILES.
| Harvard lU..fla
| VARSITY FOURS-TWO MILES
Harvard ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 12.12
Winning M'~pce X lengths.
VARSITY EIGiXs-FouR MILES
M.1eH
Harvard ................ ;..... ...... -. 10
Winning distance. sew '-ngths.
The prediction that hoth Varsity
crews were of remarkable, physical
! strength was proven true for, both fin
ishcd in grand condition. IIarJ<rd ncv-
or before had Il crew return to Quarters
after Il hard race in such fine sMp
! More people Stw this years NJ eS
| from aiioat than ever before iii all t. @
| history of boating on the Thames. HUI
| the arrangements been carried Oh
| ashore with the Gefiaitencss that Is Ip
! b" expected at these events. it is likely,
| that the total number of spectators
| would have been exceedingly large. 1t
was no fault OF the railroad company,
| which ran observation trains up and
| down both banks Of the~r river, that
thousands Of patrons were disgustcd
and gave up their tickets. for it was
| impossible ut times To learn what the
prospects were for 4 race. and it had
| no warning of the four-oared race.
To be sure, the elements were against
| Il quick running off of the announced
program and for this reason as well
i Thousands of people We're but to the
great physical disc omfort in their Gag
.erness to see the spectacle and were
obliged in many instances; to camp out
doris.
New Londssn, July 1.-For the fourth
cons1UDEe year. Yale, this morning.
| won the Varsity Eoat race from Har-
ward.
Leading from start to finish, the New
Haven crew crossed the line 291. sec
olds ahead of Harvard, or seven
lengths of an eight-oared shell. 1t was
the worst whipping that Yale has given
her old rival i'm recent years.
In the Varsity fOur-oared race Stuy- |
vesant Fish, Jr.. by 4 mishap just pre-
vented the Ellis from winning all three |
races of the annual regatta. In this
race Yale, after leading by from one to
IA seconds, was beaten out at the finish /.
nv Fish breaking his out-rigger. An |
eight of Il mile from the finish the Yale ,
four-uars was six lengths ahead of
Harvard. Fish had already caught a
crab earlier in the race and the second
mjshap of the Yale man was fatal. The :.
Rlue shell literally stopped. The Har-
ward men saw their chance and al
though badly pumped out. they jumped
their stroke up and won out by one and /
a half boat lengths. /
In the Varsity race Yale got the lead !,
almost at the start by running ner /
stroke up far above her normal gait ana |
then steadily increased this lead on
eyer1 half mile with the single excep-
tiouf Of the second half mile. on TINS
1v,fs mile Of the race Harvard cut Yaie's 4
lead down by just one-half second:
Va,a.s load IN the race for each halt
mile was as follows:
A. the end Of the first half mile, Yale
iaadine nv six seconds: second
,aIs-n,s,e by 81 seconds: third half
LII hv nine seconds: fourth haif-miie
Nv . At the fifth by IS, at the sixth Dy
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