The San Francisco call., 1906-06-29
HARVARD CREW
DEFEATS YALE
Crimson Scores Glorious
Victory After Many
Years ReverseS.
Members of the Losing
Grew Fall Exhausted
in Their Boat.

NEW LONDON. Conn, June 2S.-Har-
wards varsity crew triumphed over
Yale today before the greatest crowd
that ever gathered here on a race
! day. Coming after years of defeat, the
victory was particularly sweet TO the
| crimson. 1t was a great Yale crew
that Harvard defeated, crew that had
broken all records in practice and
went to the stakeboat a favorite. To-
night Harvard's JOY Is unconined-
Harvard won, but Yale rowed race
that will live long in the annals of
college sports. The shells Tapped each
other until the last sixteenth of
mile. The men in the rival boats could
see each other for more than three
miles and half. first one coxSwain
| and then the other called upon his
crew. Harvard really got the lead when
the killing pace proved too much for
the Yale men. 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 ten or fifteen
strokes she pulled away. Noyes, Yale's
No s, absolutely exhausted, began to
miss the stream on the catch and
swung through the air. He sat UP until
the flag dropped and then fell back
ward 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
a quarter the Yale coxswain had been
throwing water into Boulton's face.
and when Coxswain Berklow finally
yelled "AvastT Boulton fell forward
on his oar.
HARVARD MEN JUBILANT.
Harvard's men. in the intoxication
of their victory, did not stop when
ha 6a fol on .
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 Grew.
Harvard won the race by less than
two lengths and half. Her time was
23:02; 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
| 1883.
The conditions this afternoon, ac-
cording to theories of Yale men. played
an important part in the race. The
| time set for the rowing of the race
was o'clock, and when at $3.50 o'clock
Referee Richards, with the judges. e.
o. Storrow for Harvard and W. w.
Skiddy for Yale. steamed over the
course the wind was blowing strongly.
1t had been admitted that Harvard
had the best men physically and that
Yale's only hope lay in superior row.
| ing. The Yale coaches knew this and
when Referee Richards asked General
Skiddy and Mr. Storrow what they
had to say about the conditions Mr..
Storrow at once said:
The conditions are good enough for
us; Harvard is in favor of starting the
race on time"
CONDITIONS FAVOR CRIMSON.
General Skiddy hesitated as he
looked at the fiuttering flags and the
ripping Thames, which all but broke
into whitecaps in places. and then said:
Mr.. Referee Yale would like to have
better conditions. These conditions are
not in our favor, but we cannot say
that it is too rough to start the race"
This frank statement settled the
question, and at 4:10 Referee Richards
had the two eights lined up at their
stakeboats and ready for the crack of
the pistol. The long observation trains
had crept up the river on each bank.
Back on the hills thousands of spec
tators had crowded. For miles down
the river an avenue OF yachts and
launches 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 eights swung forward their
shoulders for the first stroke.
Are you ready, Harvard? Are you
ready, Yale?"
Then at the word the crews ripped
their oars through the water and shot
away on what seemed equal terms.
Aiter the first few strokes Yale had
trifte the best of it, but soon the noses
of the shells were right on a line. Har-
ward settled down to tIlirty-two strokes
to the minute, while the Yale crew
which had been rowing a thirty stroke
at the practice, was rowing thirty-four
strokes to the minute. This lasted for
almost half a mile, and it became an
parent that the Yale men had been in
| structed never to lose the lead. They
were fighting for it, even though it was
at big cost.
YALE DROPS HER STROKE.
BY the time the first half-mile flag
was reached. however, Yale had dropped
| her stroke to thirty-two, Harvard's
gait. But rowing at this Harvard was
/ getting little the better of Yale
| When the Yale crew settled down To
their normal gait their she'll travelled
/ better and they gained trife but this
/ advantage was not for long. Harvard
put on steam and 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 and Boulton dropped the
stroke back to twenty-nine When
Filley saw this he quickly put his
stroke up to thirty-two, and at the
navy yard he once more had his crew
In the lead. Yale put her stroke back
to thirty and held it over the third
mile. AS soon as Filley had taken the
lead away from Yale he let his stroke
down to thirty, and at this gait both
crews passed the two and a half mile
| flag and the three-mile flag.
BLUES ARE EXHAUSTED.
Half mile from the finish Yale bad
dropped her stroke to twentv-eiobt
from sheer exhaustion. while Harvard
still held hers at thirty. But even ar
this point Harvard had only a second
to her credit. For a quarter of a mile
further Yale kept Harvard from in