The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-29
VICTOR AFTER
 MANY YEARS Harvard Wins Varsity
 Boat Race. RACE IS CLOSE THROUGHOUT Yale Men Row Well and Are
 Game to the Last. Moves, Who Pulled No. for the Biues, Is Exhaussed and BosIton Also
 Is Played 0ut Al
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RACE IS CLOSE THROUGHOUT

New London, Conn. June 2s.--Har- wards Varsity triumphed over Yale to- dav and for the greatest crowd that ever gathered here on n race day. and coming after years oi defeat. victory vas sweet indeed to the crimson.
 It was a, great Yale crew that Har- yard defeated crcwQ th2t had broken all records on the Thames in practice and wet to the stake boat q favorite and tonight HarvnrdS joy is uncon- mel. TO Captain FiIirv and Coach wrsv. the sunpcrters of the Crimson arc cffering tls grcntss tributes that ever athletic heroes received.
 Harvard won but Yaie rowed race this afternoon that win live long in the annals of college sports Not once from the st lrL until the last si ieenth of mile did the shells cease to lap each other. The mon in the rival boats could see each other for more than three miles and half as first one coxswain a-,d then the other calisd upon his crew for leg drive and body swing to pLsh his shell ahead. Then and then only did Harvard really get the lead. for the killing pace proved too much for the Yale men and in the flnal spurt Bouiton and Moves of the Blue were done, their oars literally slipping away from them. Here Har- ward began to open up clear water be- tween the two shells and iD tne last ten or fifteen strokes of the race she pulled away from her rival Moves. YaIe's No. 6. absolutely exhausted, be- gan to miss the stream on the catch and swing his oar through the ar. He sat up in his seat until the flag dropped and then he fell backwards into the boat like dead man.
 Two Pfay Out
 Chase at No. 5, raised Noyes's head hf hut hA RA mained unconscious for 6 considerable length of time. All the way down the last mile and a quarter the Yale cox swain had been throwing water into Boulton's face and when Coxswain Barkalow yelled Vast Boulton fell forward on his oars Dick Morse. asle's eaptsin. splasred water upon his boat. He had lost the race and tl7s dearest prize of his college career. but he was game tc the finish.
 harVard'e men in the intoxlcation of their victory did not stop when the fiaSs fell but rowed on to 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 ob- servation 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 minutes and 2 sec onds. Yale's 23 minutes and II sec- onds.
 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 minutes 10 seconds, made by the YaleEcrew in 1888. The question of the conditions this af- ternoon in the minds of many, espe- cially according to the theories of the Yale men. played an important part fin the race. The time set for rowing the race was { o'clock and when at 3;30 o'clock Referee Richards with the judges, E. C. Storrow for Harvard and " W. Skiddy for Yale. steamed over the course the wind was blowing om- inously strong for Yale It has been admitted ever since the crews reached men physically and that Yales only hope lay in superior rowing. The Yale coaches knew the strength of this com parison and when Referee Richards asked General skldder and Mir. stor- row what they had to say about the conditions, Mir. storrow at once said The conditions are good enough for US; Harvard Is in favor of starting the race on timc.'
 Ready to start.
 General Skidder hesitated as he looked at the fluttering flags and the rippIing Thames which all but broke into whitecaps in places and then said: MT. Rereree. Yale would like to have better conditions. These con- ditions 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 4:1O Referee Richards had the two big eights lined up at theii stake boats and ready for the alr af hn NHuNa Na1
 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 trifle the better of 1t, but soon the noses of the shells were right on line Harvard to the surprise of ev- cry one settled down to 32 strokes to the minute while the Yale crew, which had bern rowing a 30 stroke at the most in practice, was rowing 34 strokes to the minute. This lasted for about half a mile and 1t became apparent that the Yale men had been instructed never to lose the lead They were fighting for it even though 1t was at big cost At the time the first mile flag was reached. however, Yale dropped her stroke to 32. liar vatd's gait, but even rowing at this Harvard was getting a little the bet ter of Yale. When the Yale crew set
  shell travelled better and they gained a trifle 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 29.
 The Stroke Increased.
 Filev saw this and he ,uickly put his stroke up to thirty-two and at the navy yard he once more had his crew in the lead. HHle put her stroke back 10 thirty and held 1t over the third mile. As soon as the Filley had taken tho lead away from Yale he let his stroke down to thirty and at this gait both crews passed the two and one half mile flag and three mile flag Half a mile from the finish Yale had drcp- ped her stroke to twenty-eight from sheer exhaustion, while Harvard still held hers at thirty.
 But even at this point Harvard only