The Mena weekly star., 1906-09-13
IH[ RACE ID CAMBRIDGE
English Team Defeated Harvard in Impressive Style on Thames
 River at Putney.
WITHIN HALF 4 MINUTE OF RECORD TIME
Cambridge Had Advantage of q Length in Position Winning the Toss and Choos- ing Surrey Side Y The Winners Time wns 10 Minutes and1G scconds-(sreat Crowd Snw Contest.


 Putney. Eng, Sept. 9.-Cambridge defeated Harvard in the great inter- national boat race on the Thames river here Saturday by two lengths. the official time being 19 minutes and i6 seconds, 29 seconds siower than the record made by Oxford in 1893 of IS minutes and AZ seconds.
 All the members of the Harvard crew had an excellent nights sleep and awoke Saturday morn~ ing feeling ready to row ths race of their lives and very confident of success. The Cambridge men were DO less satisfied that they would Le able to carry off the aquatic palm.
 The weather conditions were ideal when the two crew turned out early in the day for a few brief practice starts, their final appearance before the great boat race which has caused the greatest excitement ever aroused In Great Britain by any contest over the historic championship course from Putney to Mort Lake. The sky was cloudless, light, Indian summer haze hanging over the river. The bree was from the southwest and althous il against the racers, it was very light in the early hours of the day.
 The excitement over the interna- tional contest pervaded all London, all the provincial centers and even most of the sporting communities. Tho business centers of this city were gay with the Stars and Stripes and Harvard crimson which were conspicuous everywhere.
 Early in the afternoon the grcen banks of the river were lined with people to an extent which promised the greatest pouring out of people ever witnessed in boat race here. All though. naturally, the light blue col ors Of Cambridge predominated, the Harvard crimson ran them close up, while a numerous contingent Of row ing enthusiasts, unable to make up their minds as to which would win, had donnad rosettes of ribbon com bining the blue of Cambridge and Har- wards crimson
 The members of the American col ony in London and hosts of Amer ican visitors to the city were early in the field, taking up points of vaii- tage from which to enliven the Amer ican crew with Havard's cole; c yell. Tn fact, the enthusiasts from across the Atlantic were SD numct- ous that when the Harvard men turned out for their practice Satur- day morning they might, judging from the cheering and American coll lege yells, have almost imagined them selves in home waters.
 The majority of the expert opinion gave the final verdict in favor Of Cambridge, but Vivian Nickalls, tho old Oxford oarsman, and quite a nnm- Der of other pastmasters ir the art of rowing, bet heavily on Harvard.
 As the afternoon advanced dense and stretching along the river banks as far as the eye could reach. testi- flying to the fact that the sporting in- stIncts of the British public had been aroused as they had seldom been be- fore. The throngs were wholly cos- mopolitan and cheered with equal en- thusiasm all appearances of the wear CTS of the crimson or of the blue.
 The breeze freshened somewhat as the time for starting the race ap- preached and there was much eager ness to ascertain which crew was the winner of the toss for positions. as 1t was calculated that the choice of the Surrey side of the river might give the lucky crew an advantage of as much as length.
 Cambridge won the toss and chose the Surrey side.
 The start was made at <:2S p. n. with Cambridge slightly in the leai. At Beverly Brook the lead was ir- creased to one length. At Hammer smith bridge Harvard was length and quarter behind The Americans lost ground at Dover by steering rco far out.
 Cambridge won by two lengths in 19 minutes. 16 seconds.
 The record for the course Is I. min- utcs. 47 seconds, made by Oxford in 1893