The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-29
HARVARD AT LAST
Crimson Defeats Yale in
Great Aquatic Event
on the Thames
River.
FIRST Time since 1899.
LEADS At FINISH BY TWO
LENGTHS AND HALE

YaIe's Crew Not as POwerfuI--Fails to
Stand the Strain-Noyes at No. 6, Col
Iapses Near the Finish and is Unable
TO Reach the Water on the Catch
Swings Wildly Through the Air.
Keeps His Seat Until Line is Crossed
and Then Falls over in the Boat Like
a Dead Man-Great Struggle From
start to Finish-Time 2S.02 and 23:11
Yale Takes the Two Minor Races.
New London, June 28.-In sight of
the greatest crowd ever gathered here
on race day Harvard defeated Yale in
the varsity rae for the first time since
1899. Coming after years of defeat and
under the auspices of a new rowing
coach, and after two defeats in the
minor races this morning, the Grim
sons triumphy was like wine and
bread to the starving wanderer in the
desert. 1t was victory over q great
Yale crew, a crew that had smashed
all records Of the Thames to pieces in
practice and which went to the stake
boat a favorite. To whip such crew
under such conditions was triumph
which warrants Harvard's joy to-
night, a JOY that at first was talked
over quietly and which then broke out
as the night wore on into wild and tu-
multuous glee.
TO Captain Filley and to Coach Wray
Harvard is tonight offering the great
est athletic tributes that she has paid
to any athletic heroes in over twenty
years, while Yale is glad to shake the
hand of such rivals and give them full
credit for wonderful race.
Harvard won, and this tells the whole
story for Harvard men. But Yale row.
ed a race this afternoon that will live
Dong in the annals of college sports.
Not once from the start of the race
until the last sixteenth Of mile did
the long graceful shells cease to lap
each other and the prows to zigzag be-
tween the swings of sixteen powerful
backs. The two eights glared at each
other from the corner of their eyes for
over three miles and half at first one
coxswain and then the other called up
on his crew for leg drive and body
swing to put his shell ahead. Then,
and only then did Harvard get the lead.
Then it was that the endurance or pow
er or in other words the physical make
up of the Harvard boat, put in the kill
ing touches for Yale. The Yale con-
swain called for final spurt but such
men in the Yale boat as Boulton and
Moves, who, at their best, possessed no
such endurance as men like Filley and
Bacon, did not have the strength to
put any more power into the stroke.
They tried 1t but their oars literally
slipped away from them. Then Har-
ward for the first time began to open
up clear water between the two shells
and In the last ten or fifteen strokes of
the race Harvard got most of her lead.
Neves. Yale's No. oar, from sheer ex-
haustion began to miss the water on
the catch and swung his oar through
the air. He sat up in his seat until
the flag dropped and then he fell back
wards into the boat like a dead man.
Chase at No. raised Noyes head up
and dashed water on him. All the way
down over the last mile and a quarter
the Yale coxswain had been throwing
water into Bou1ton's face and when
Coxswain Barkalow fnalley yelled
svast' Boulton fell forward on his oar.
Dick More, Yale's captain sitting up
like a hero, splashed water upon his
men and called to them to sit up in the
boat He had lost the race and the
dearest prize Of his college career, but
he 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 draw
bridge amid the din of hundreds of
yacht whistles, the boom Of cannon and
the shouts of thousands of tumultuous
Cambridge men and sympathizers who
almost jumped out of the observation
train to greet their crew.
Harvard won the race by less than
two lengths and half. Her time was
% minutes and 2 seconds, Yale's %
minutes. Il seconds. The time was not
1dSt. w DliS the crews udu llS llub
with them they had a brisk quartering
wind which made fast time impossible.
The record for the course is 20 minutes
10 seconds, made by the Yale crew in
1888.
The question of the conditions this
afternoon in the minds of many and es-
pecially according to the theories of
Yale men, played an important part In
the race. The time set for rowing the
race was 4 o'clock and when at $3.50
O'Clock Referee Richards with the
Judges, E. c. Storrow for Harvard and
w. w. Skiddy for Yale. steamed up
over the course in toe Scout, the wind
was blowing ominously strong for Yale.
II has been admitted ever since the
crews reached the Thames that Har-
ward had the best men physically and
that Yale's only hope lay in superior
rowing. The Yale coaches knew the
strength of this comparison and when
Referee Richards asked General Skid
e,--.,