Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-29
HARVARD WINS
VARSITY RACE
At FIRST HALF MILE YALE
DROPS STROKE
Yale Wins In Freshman Eight Oar
by Half Leneth-BIues
Capture Four Oar
Varsity
BY Associated Press.

4 Varsity
By Associated Press
NEW LONDON, Conn, June 2s.-l
Harvard's varsity crew triumphed over
Yale today before the greatest crowd
that ever gathered here on race day.
Coming after years of defeat, the vic
tory was particularly sweet to the
crimson. It was great Yale crew that
Harvard defeated, a crew that had
broken all records in practice and went
to the stake boat favorite. Tonight
Harvard's JOY Is unconfined.
Harvard won, but Yale rowed n race
that will live long in the annals of
college sports. Not only from the start
but 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.
Harvard really got the lead when the
killing pace proved too much for the
Yale men.
In the final spurt Boultori and Noyes
were DONE their oars literally slipping
away from them. Here Harvard began
to open up clear water, and in the ast
ten or fifteen strokes she pulled away.
o,
hausted, began to miss the stream on
: the catch and swung through the air.
He sat up until the flag dropped and
then fell backward into the boat.
Chase, No. s, washed water on him,
but he remained unconscious for con-
siderable time. All the way down the
last mile and quarter the Yale
coxswain had been throwing water onto
Boulton's face, and when Coxswain
Berklow finally yelled "vast" Boulton
fell forward on his oar.
Harvards men, in the intoxication
of their victory did not stop when the
flag fell, but rowed on under the draw
bridge amid the din of hundreds of
yacht whistles, the boom Of cannon and
the shouts of thousands Of Cambridge
men, who almost Jumped out of the
observation train into the Thames to
get~at their crew.
Wins by Over Two Lengths
Harvard won the race by less than
two lengths and half. Her time was
23:02; Yales 23:11.
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 20:10, made by
Yale in 1888.
Conditions this afternoon, according
to theories Of the Yale men, played an
important part in the race The time
% clock, and when at $3.50 o'clock Ref
cree Richards, with Judges E. o. Stor-
row, for Harvard, and W. w. Skiddy.
for Yale, steamed over the course the
wind was blowing strong, 1t had been
admitted that Harvard had the best
men physically and that Yale's only
hope lay in superior rowing.
The Yale coaches knew this, and
when Referee Richards asked General
Skldd1n 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"
General Skiddin hesitated as he
looked at the fluttering 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 condi-
tions are not in our favor, but we
cannot say that 1t is too rough to start
the race
This frank statement settled the
question, and at 4:10 Referee Richards
mad the two eightS lined up at their
stake boats and ready for the crack
of the pistol. The long observat tion
trains had crept up the river on either
bank: Back on the hills thousands of
spectators had crowded. For miles
down the river an avenue of yachts and
Launches and rowboats had formed
Race Starts
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 shoul-
ders 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.
After the first few strokes Yale had a
trifie the better of it,, but soon the
noses of the shells were right on
line. Harvard settled down to 32
strokes to the minute, while the Yale
crew, which had been rowing a 30
stroke at practice, was rowing "a
strokes to the minute.
This lasted for almost half a mile
and 1t became apparent that the Yale
men had been instructed never to lose
their lead. They were fighting for 1t
even though it was at big cost.
BY the time the first half mile flag
was reached, however. Yale had
dropped her stroke to 80, Harvards S
gait. But even rowing at this Har-
ward was getting little the better of
Yale. When the Yale crew settled
down to their normal gait their shell
travelled better and they gained a
triiie, but this advantage was not for
long.
Boulton Drops Stroke
Harvard put on steam and the boats
finished the mile and half on even
terms. Yale's effort, however began
to tell on her men just before the end
of the first two miles and BouIton
cropped the stroke back to 49, When
Filley saw this he quickly put his
stroke up to 80 and at the navy yard
he once more had his crew In the lead.
Haie put her stroke back to 80 and
held 1t over the third mile.
AS soon as Filley had taken the lead
away from Yale he let his stroke down
70 30 and at this gait both crews passed
the 2h mile flag and the mile flag.
Yale Drops to Twenty-eieht
Half a mile from the finish Yale had
dropped her stroke to 2S from sheer
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