Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-05
Crimson Crew Defeated "Old ELI"
Men by Two Lengths and
a Half.
WASAREMARK CONTEST
Two Yale Men Became Unconscious
Through ExhaustiOn-Race Will
Live Long i'm Annals OF College
spOrts-Time Was 23,O2.

crimson. 1t was great Yale crew
that Harvard defeated, a crew that hat
broken all records in practice and
went to the stake boat favorite
Thursday night Harvard's Joy was
unconhned.
Harvard won, but Yale rowed race
that will live long in the annals Of col
lege sports. Not only from the start
until the last sixteenth Of mile did
the shells cease to lap each other. The
men In the rival boats could see each
other for more than three miles and
a half, as first one coxswain and then
the other called upon his crew. Har-
ward really got the lead when the kill
ing pace proved too much for two Of
the Yale mtn. In the final squirt Boul.
ton and Noyes were done, their oars
literally slipping away from them.
Here Harvard began to open up clear
water and In the last 10 or Is strokes
she pulled away. Noyes, Yale's No. g.
absolutely exhausted, began to miss
Che stream on the catch and swing
through the air.
He sat up until the flag dropped and
then fell backwards into the boat.
Chase, at No. 5, dashed water on him,
but he remained unconscious for
considerable time. All the way down
the last mile and quarter the Yale
coxswain had been throwing water
on Boulton's face, and when Coxswain
Berkelow finally yelled VAST" Boul-
ton fell forward on his oar.
Harvard's men, in the intoxication
of their victory, did not stop when
the flags fell, but rowed on under the
drawbridge amid the din of hundreds
of yacht whistles, the boom Of cannon
and the shouts of thousands Of Cam.
bridge men who almost jumped out Of
the observation train into the Thames
to get at their crew.
Harvard won the race by less than
two lengths and a half. Her time was
23:O2; Yale's 23:11.
While the crews had the tide WITH
them they had brisk quartering wind
which made fast time impossible. The
record for the course is 20:10, made by
Yale in 1888.
At 4:1O Referee Richards had the
two Fights lined up at their stake
boats and ready for the crack Of the
pistol. The long observation trains
had crept up the river on either bank.
Back on the hills thousands of specta-
tors had crowded. For niles down the
river an avenue Of yachts and launch
es and rowboats had formed.
The long slow call Of the referee
rang out in the stiffness which even
on the broad river became intense as
the two Fights swung forward their
shoulders for the first stroke. Are
you ready, Harvard; are you ready,
Yale?" Then ct the word the crews
ripped their oars through the water
and shot away on what seemed equal
terms. After the first few strokes
Yale had a trihe the better Of It, but
soon the noses Of the shells were RICH
On a line. Harvard settled down to
u strokes to the minute, while the
Yale crew which had been rowing q
30 stroke at the practice was rowing
- strokes TO the minute. This lasted
Ior almost half mile and It became
apparent that the Yale men had been
instructed never to lose the lead.
they were fighting for It even though
Il was at big cost. By the time the
irst half mile flag was reached, how
sver, Yale had dropped her stroke to
%, Harvard's gait. But even rowing
It this Harvard was getting little the
better Of Yale. When the Yale crew
Iettled down to their normal sal |
heir shell travelled better and they |
yained a trihe but this advantage was
lot for long. Harvard put on steam
md the boats finished the mile and a
half on even terms. Yale's EFFORT
however, began to tell on her men Just !
before the end Of the first two miles |
md Boulton dropped the stroke back
o 20. When Filley saw this he quick |
y put his stroke up to 80 and at the !
navy yard he once more had his crew
n the lead. Yale put her stroke back |
q 80 and held It over the third mile. |
As soon as Filley had taken the lead
lway from Yale he let his stroke down !
o 80 and at this gait both crews passed
he two and a half miles flag snd the
.hree mile flag.
Half a mile from the finish Yale
had dropped her stroke to Is from
Iheer exhaustion while Harvard still |
held hers at 80. But even at this
Doint Harvard only had a second to !
her credit For q quarter Of q mile
'urther Yale kept Harvard from In
.reaslng her lead but over the next and !
asst quarter Of a mile Harvard began |
% slip away nom her rival little By !
little. A quarter Of q mile from the
inish Boulton raised his stroke to |
q where be gamely held It for q short |
distance a. Harvard raiser herl.
Int to 81. then 10 % and finally to g. |
when the Harvard captain LET 80 the
asst burst Of hih power Yale had IN
she'd up etsfy ounce Of her endurance |
nd TIE crimson nhsll Hpsd on % No