The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-29
WAS HARVARD'S DAY.
Won in Splendid Fashion First Two
Races Over XaIe.

New London, Conn, June ga per-
feet June morning was natures greet
ing to the oarsmen of Yale and Har-
ward universities, on this day, the day
of their annual regatta on the Thames.
The harbor was filed with pleasure
crafts, and as soon as "colors'' had
been sounded today they ran up flags
and bunting and moved up river TO
anchorage above the drawbridge and
began to form long lines on either side
of the course.
This is the twenty-seventh regatta
day on which Yale and Harvard crews
have met in friendly rivalry. Eighteen
times the sons of Yale have led the
way over the finish line in more or less
hard roWed races Seven times the
crimson has gone back to Cambridge
as the victor and twice both universi-
ties have taken part with Cornell in
triangular races. 1t is now six years
since Harvard sent a winning crew to
the Thames and prior to that 1t was
way back in 1891 that Harvard broke
Yale's string of five consecutive vic
tories The freshman crews Of the two
universities have raced for nearly a.
generation and in these events Yale
has also been more successful than
Harvard.
1t was arranged by the COMMITTEES
| in charge of today's four Dared and
freshmen two mile races down stream
at half past ten with the Oh eff event
at some hour late in the a ternoon.
The varsity race probably will be
rowed at 4:3O o'clock.
The failure of friends of the crews
to fill UP the hotels and boarding
houses as they have been wont to do
| in years past andI the early hour of
the freshmen and four Dared races
made the crowd which witnessed them
! the smallest ever known here. It was
feared also that the attendance at the
! varsity race would fall far below that
of any other year.
The oarsEen were astir early at their
/ sit" The first specials to come in
from the west were three from New
Haven shortly after 9 o'clock. Then
for the first time the railroad station
! assumed an air of race day business
and the demand for observation train
seats became brisk. Railroad officials
said that few private parties had ar
ranged for cars on the special trains
this year which was in marked con-
trast with conditions a year ago.
Harvard won in splendid fashion the
first two races of the annual YaIe-Har-
ward regatta on the Thames today,
these being the varsity four-oared and
the freshman eight. Both the crews
roWed magni1cently and Harvard had
to use every ounce Oft her power and
bring into play every muscle that her
men had trained for this particular test
of speed.
The varsity 4-oared race of two miles
went to Harvard by what is officially
declared to be a length. and the fresh
men race went to the same crew by an
official and three-quarters.
The official times of the races were as
follows:
Varsity four: Half mile, Harvard
PAS, Yale 2:48; one mile Harvard $40
Yale 5:35; mile and a half, Harvard 8 30
Yale S:34; finish, Harvard 11:2z, Yale
1921.
Freshman Fights, half mile. Harvard
PIP, Yale 2:12; one mile, Harvard ( 81
Yale 500; one mile and half, Harvard
7:25, Yale 7:S1; finish, Harvard 9:4s.
Yale 1904.
At noon the expectation was that tbs
varsity Fights would row at 4:S0 but
the captains at 8 o'clock will meet and
set the time and direction
Both races we're magnifcently contest
ed.