The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-30
two miles was: Yale. 1O:47; Harvard

l two. miles was: Yale. 10:47; Harvard. l l0:53 & .,...s.. *.s..-.s,.5. < The Harvard coxswain called for a ] spurt and his crew responded bravely. 1 Just as the crimson began to spurt an empty barrel had drifted into the blues course and it was floating so low in the
 water that the nose of the Yale shell
 was within few feet of it when Cox swain Barkalow saw it and cleverly steered his boat over into Harvard's I water, so that Yale's outriggers passed
 over the obstacle. .... Either the loss of the headway occa- stoned by the steering of the Yale shell ! around this obstruction or. Haryard's determination cost Yale two of the l three seconds which she had gained l just before the two-mile flag. Yale's l time for two and half miles was 1S:42,
 Harvard's 13:46. -s.-..,
 I As the crews passed this distance
 mark Yale was still rowing S2-stroke, while Harvard had dropped down to 31.
 The Ellis were still confident that they i were going to row away from the crim- son and finish the race in romp. But their predictions were, not to be fulfill ed. Harvard put her stroke back to 32, \ and at the three mile flag she was still lighting desperately, and far from be-, | ing licked. Yale had put on her power l and had again increased her lead, but only by two seconds. Yale's time at l the three-rnile flag was 16:37; Harvard's | 16:43. l The last mile of the race was a fight
 which will never be forgotten by those who saw it. ~r~ust beyond the three-
 mile flag Meiel, aIaryard's No. z, who I had been rowing a terrific race, seemed to have pumped himself out. The Har- lvard stroke dropped back to 31 to the minute, but it only stayed there for a ! little while. Suddenly Meier. seemed to 1 get his second wind and the crimson | stroke went up two points. The Har- yard shell began to gain on Yale. Even the Cambridge men declared that 1 Stroke Filley was making his effort too
 soon, and declared that he could never keep it up. Yale finished the three and a half miles in 19:34; Harvard in 1889.
 Filley's crew was actually gaining on Yale in the last mile of the race. On l every stroke the Harvard shell crept nearer the Yale boat. Suddenly. the I shells were once more Tapped. The | Yale coxswain called for a spurt, and his crew raised their stroke to 34 the
 highest that they had been taught to {. row Still Harvard was game. Up went the Harvard stroke to 34, and over the last quarter of mile the prov of the Cambridge shell began to gain
 on the blues boat. The crews were only hundred yards from the finish and still it was either's race. 2, No one could tell which crew was going to win
 and the crowds became wild in their excitement @
 The Harvard shell was still creeping | up on the Yale boat and every man in
 the two. racing craft was pulling out
 the last ounce of his power, when sud- denly the flag at the finish dipped and
 Yale was a winner by three-quarters of "a boat length. Harvard men danced and hugged each ether as though they had won the race. Yale was so dazed
 by the fright which Wray's crew had
 given her that she forgot to cheer for a few minutes. When the Ellis suddenly
 realized that they had. won the closest
 race in Yale-Harvard boating history
 they cheered until the hills reverberat-
 ed with the old cry of Old Yale.
 As Harvard passed the finish line
 Meier, at No. z, dropped his oar ant