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there was continuous checking. Harvard
had to squirt constantly to keep up.
YOUNGSTERS CREEP AWAY.

ELS YOUNGSTERS AWAY.
just about 200 yards from the mile mark
Yale, doing 80 to the minute to Harvard =
80, began to creep away. The Crimson was
in a bad way trying hard but not getting
anywhere. The boat rocked and sta ggered
and two or three of the men began to'show
fatigue, putting it mildly. At the mile n a
ilaR the Harvard crew was all but open
water behind. The Crimson and the Blue
were just one long shell.
The Harvard crew made a game effort,
putting all theft eggs in one basket. Smash.
bang! they came along. pulling. great guns
and reaching the forties in their count.
The squirt cut iale's lead down Just one-half
and there were about 500 Yards to go. Yale
men on the yachts n observation train
began to get nervous. Would Harvard get
them after all' 1t was a tense moment
but the question was solved for the Blue.
when Ellis, highly nervous Overlapping
his slide originally, gave way altogether
and stopped rowing. His idle oar pounded
Crandall, No. ?, in the back, and the blade
caught that Of Rackemann in seat 2. All
stopped going through the motions and
dropped their oars.
Down and out they vent and five men
nut the Harvard boat across the line, four
feet less han a length behind the bow of the
vict orious Yale lads. Reece, the Harvard
the effects Of the hard race, but both he and
Mayer, the Yale stroke. hraced at once.
The freshmen crews had enough left to keep
on rowing up the river to get a peek at the
finish Of the four cared race which was the
next on the card. In some quarters this
may be considered a race. 1t was absolute,
horrid, cruel massacre, The Harvard four
was declared by Bosto on experts to,be good.
1t was not good enough for the company
it was in, however, not by q Republican
chance as a Gold Democrat down in de
Ate
FOUR DARED EASY o
To give Harvard all due credit the Crimson
did get away in front. The navy yard
buildings hid the first few dozen yards
from the view of the observation train
in full view after that Yale seemed to he in
the lead by a few feet. "It's only the angle"
said the Harvard men. yale only looks
to be ahead" The .semblance began to
look a little bit more like the real thing
in about a moment more. Yale was not
pulling anywhere near as high a stroke
as Harvard, but going away like little mon.
There was a half length Of open water
between the crews at the half mile, with
Yale doing IS to the minute. against SO
for Harvard. Harvard rushed slides with
careless inconsequentiality and fell further
back as a result. Emmons, rowing No.
3 in the Crimson shell, was about as 9erky
and spasmodic a thing as could well he
imagined. He appeared to be rowing a
little race all by himself without regard
TO the others. zoo.
Near the mile Harvard let down the
stroke a little and seemed to be trying to
get down to earth. Yale kept the So going
right along and never changed. There
We're three open lengths at half the journey
and worse coming. Nothing but the
sweetest of charity could make it anything
but seven open lengths at the mile and a half.
A huge gain was coming when Harvard
jumped the stroke to 81 in a sad attempt
to pick up. The very worst recorded was
at the end. Nearly !? lengths of open
water separated the crews An accurate
observer reported that it took Harvard
IS strokes to finish after Yale crossed the
The makeup Of the crews follows