The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-01
TWO RACES POSTPONED
UNTIL THIS MORNING
sYARSITR AND FoUR-oAR HAD
TO BE PUT ORE

nave I1GCA As0fNt-N- 50
ating DeIays-xale Wins Freshman
Event-A remarkable Contest, the
Blue Being First BY Only Half Sec
ond-The Time.
New London. June so.-The thou
sands who journeyed to the Thames
to-day for the annual Yale-Harvard
boat races saw one Of the best fresh
men races that has ever been rowed on
any course, and then for eight hours
the crowd sat in the rain and waited in
vain. first for the varsity four cared
race, which was postponed, and finally
for the Jig varsity eight cared race.
Yale won the freshmen race BY half
a second or a quarter Of boats
length. For the two miles of this race
the two shells zigzagged, and neither
crew ever had lead Of more than
length. il was one Of the most re-
rnarkablt boat races In the history Of
intercollegiate rowing.
The pbstponement Of the varsity
races brought forth much criticism.
Throughout the entire day there seem
ed to be d lack Of system in the ham
ding Of the races. The freshmen event
was delayed for fifty minutes BY one
mishap after another and BY the time
it was finished it was impossible to
put on the varsity four cared race,
since the varsity eight cared race was
scheduled for 1890 o'clock. It could
have been rowed at that hour had the
officials of the day been prompt, but
there was long delay. The wind
freshened ana the race was postponed,
first until 1:15 then until 2:SO, next until
AIS and again until o'clock, when
finally it was put over until tomorrow.
AS the afternoon wore on the south
east wind, which had been blowing all
day, grew sitter and sitter until 1t
was absolutely impossible for any
crew to row. The only hour in which
the racefcould have been roHad was
1890 o,cl TX.
One a1 he biggest crowds in the his
l0ry oT THESE races came by rail and
water I'd witness to-day's regatta Pos
sibly thhrs were not SO many steam
yachts bis usual, but the general at
tendance was record breaker. De-
spite lleaden sky from which the
rain began to fall early in the morning
and conginued all day III drizzles, with
now and then a regular downpour, the
spectators in undimished numbers
waited uatiently Not until a definite
was made did they give
up the Hope Of seeing the long looked
for struggle between the varsity crews
Of Yale and Harvard.
The eight oRred race will be roWed
up stream tomorrow at 1890 a. M,
after which the fours will be sent
away.
After the freshman eights reached
9he starting flags, and that was long
after the time was set, Harvard drag
ged her stake boat, and for quarter of
an hour Referee MeikIeham labored
with the shells to get them lined UP.
The delay was very trying for the
crews. FINAL at the sound OF the pis-
tol both eights dashed away in splendid
style. Yale showed in better form at 4
the start than Harvard and for the
first eighth of mile had trifie the
better of 1T Then the Harvard men
settled down and slowly drove their
boat to the front. Yale was rowing
81 and the Crimson 80. Raising her
stroke q point or two, Harvard reached
the half mile flag a third of a length
in the Iead over the next half mile
the boats only changed In their rela-
tiv epositions by one second. Har-
ward finished the mile III 5 minutes and
9 seconds, Yale in 5 minutes and 10
seconds.
Over the next half mile the struggle
was superb. Each crew raised its
stroke one point. Harvard steered out
OF her course in order to catch better
water and Yale followed her. At the
mile and half flag the two boats
were exactly even. nose for nose. The
time for each crew for the mile and a
half was & minutes and 50 seconds.
just as the half mile flag was passed
Yale began a squirt that won the race
She jumped her stroke up to 36 and be-
gan to pull ahead inch BY inch. Har-
ward did not make her effort until an
eighth Of q mile from the finish. Then
her stroke went to 3s, but it was too
late. Yale Was leading by the length
of her canvas bow as the flags dipped
at the finish. The two flags went
down almost simultaneously and 1t was
several naiutes before the crews knew
who had won. Finally the referee
shouted out Me name Of the winner
and the Yale youngsters sat up in their
shell and gave the Yale cheer with
ssHarvard" on the ind Of it. Yale had
won BY just half a Fecond, Yale's time
was 10 minutes ann 20 seconds; Har-
wards 10 minutes, I'D IL seconds.
The crews had q flair wind, but prac-
tically no tide, anP considering this
fact the time was fast. The predic-
tion made last night by John Kennedy
OF y ale that the freshman race was a
toss up, came true Two crews more
evenly matched had never met. AS
soon as the referee announced at o.
clock that the varsity race would be
postponed until to-nllorrow, both Har-
ward and Yale got ii1to their shells for
a little practice. The wind was blow
ing so fiercely that 1T was not possible
Tor thecreWs to do anything more than
60 warm up. After ten minutes Of
practice both eights lhoused their shells |