Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29
HARVARD. TR|UMPHs
OVER OLD Eli
crimson's Varsity Crew De-
feated Yale by Over Two
Lengths in Slow Time.

wards varsity triumphed over Yale yester-
day before the greatest crowd that ever
gathered here on race day. and coming
after years OF defeat victory was sweet in
deed to the Crimson. 1t was great Yale
crew that Harvard defeated, a crew that
had broken all records on the Thames in
practice. and went to the stake boat
favorite, and Harvard's Joy is unconfned.
To Captain Filley and Coach Wray the
supporters of the Crimson are Offering the
greatest tributes that ever athletic heroes
received.
Harvard won, but Yale rowed race that
will live long in the annals of college sports.
Not once from the start until the last six
teenth 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 for
leg drive and body swing to push his shell
ahead. Then, and only then. did Harvard
really get the lead. for the killing pace
proved too much for two OF the Yale men,
and in the final squirt Boulton and Noyes
of the Blue were done, their oars literally
slipping away from them. Here Harvard
began to open up clear water between the
two shells and IN the last ten or hfteen
SlIOheS VI liz IdCe SHe PuiiSu away A'oAA.
her rival
Fell Like Dead Man.
Noyes, Yale's No. 8. absolutely exhaust
ed. began to miss the stream on the eaten
and swing his oar through the air. He sat
up in his seat until the flag dropped and
then he fell backwards into the boat like
dead man Chase No. s, raised Noyes
head and dashed water on him. but he re-
manned unconscious for considerable
length of time. All the way down the iast
mile and quarter the Yale coxswain hao
been throwing water into Boultons lace,
and when Coxswain Barkalow finally yelled
vast Boulton fell forward on his oar.
Dick Morse, Yale's captain, spiashed water
upon his men ana eaiea TO ehem 20 n s,' ,h e
dearest prize of his college career, but ne
was game to the finish.
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 WINS.
ties, the boom of cannon and shouts OF
thousands of Cambridge 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 half. Her time was Is MIN
utes and second, Yale's q minutes, IL
second.
While the crews had the tide with them
they had a brisk quartering wind, which
made fast time impossible. The record
for the course Is 20 minutes and 10 Sec
onds, made by the Yale crew in 1858
At the word the crews ripped their oars
through the water and shot away on what
seemed equal terms. After the first rev
strokes Yale had trif1e the better or II,
but soon the noses of the shells were right
on a line Harvard, to the surprise Of every
one. settled down to 80 strokes to the min
ute, while the Yale crew. which had peen
rowing 30-stroke at the most IN pfac 1,s,t,
was rowing "a strokes to the minute. This
lasted for almost half mile, and it be-
came apparent that the Yale men had been
instructed never to lose the lead. They were
fighting for 1t even though 1t was at Dig
cost.
Crews on Even Terms.
BY the time the first half mile flag was
reached, however, Yale had dropped her
stroke to 80. Harvards gait. But even,
rowing at this Harvard was getting lit
tie the better of Yale. When the Yale crew
settled down to its normal gait its
she'll travelled better and gained
trif1e but this advantage was not for
long. Harvard put on steam and the boats
finished the mile and half on even terms
YaIe'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 20. When Filley saw this he quick
ly put his stroke up to 81. and at the navy
yard he once more had his crew in the lead
Yale put her stroke back to 30 and held it
over the third mile. AS soon as Filley had
taken the lead away from Yale he let his
stroke down to 30. and at this gait both
crews passed the two and half mile flag
and the three-mie flag
Half a mile from the finish Yale had
dropper her stroke to % from sheer exhaus-
ton while Harvard still held hers at 80
But even at this point Harvard only had
second to her credit. For a quarter Of
mile further Yale kept Harvard from in
creasing the lead, but over the next and
last quarter of mile Harvard began to
slip away from her rival little by little.
A quarter of mile from the finish Boulton
raised his stroke to 80, where he gamely
held it for short distance, as Harvard
raised hers first to 81, then to 81, and
finally to SO.
When the Harvard captain let go the
last burst of his power Yale had finished
up every ounce of her endurance and the
Crimson shell sped on to victory.
The official times were as follows: