Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-29
HAUVARDWIyS VARSITYRACE
Crimson Eight Finishes Length Ahead Of
the Blue.
YALE TAKES THE TWO MINOR RACES
Freshmen aud Four-Oared Contests
Go a. the sons of EIi-weather
Conditions Favorable TO
49,. .-. l.t Harvard.

NEW LONDON, Conn. June 2s.-Harvard
university triumphed over Yale today be-
fore, the greatest crowd that ever gathered
here on a race day. Coming after years
OF defeat the victory was particularly
sweet to the crimson. It was a great Yale
crew that Harvard defeated, crew that
had, broken all records in practice. and
went to the stake boat a favorite To-
night Harvards Joy is unconhned.
Harvard won, but Yale rowed race that
will live long in the annals Of college
sports Not only from the start 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 two
OF the Yale men. In the final squirt Boulton
and Moves were done. their oars literally
slipping away from them. Here Harvard
began 10 open up clear water and in the
last ten or fifteen strokes she pulled away.
Moves Yale's No 6. absolutely exhausted,
began 10 miss the stream on the catch and
swung through the air. He sat up until
the flag dropped and then fell backwards
into the boat. Chase at Mp. g. dashed
water on him. but he remained unconscious
fora considerable time. All the way down
the last mile and quarter the Yale cox
swain had been throwing water into Boul-
ter's face and when Coaxswain Barkelow
finally yelled Past Boulter. fell forward
on his oar.
Great JOY in Harvard Camp.
Harvards men. In the intoxication or
AZ he. dan
fell but rowed on ainder the drawbridg-
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 trains into
the Thames to get their crew.
Harvard won the race by less than two
lengths and a half It's time was 23:O2;
Yales, 211. t -
While the crews had the tide with them
they had brisk duartering wind, which
made fast time impossible! The record
for the course is 20:10. made by Yale In
1855 aa '.+
The conditions this afternoon, according
to the theories OF Yale men; played an i'm
portant part in the race. The time set for
rowing the race was' O'Clock. and when
at $3.50 o'clock Referee Richards with
the judges. +. c. storrow for Harvard and
w w skidy for Yale steamed over the
course the wind was blowing strong. It
has been admitted that Harvard had the
best men physically and that Yale's only
hope lay in superior rowing.
At 4.1O Referee Richards had the two
Fights lined up at their stakebosts and
ready for the crack of the pistol, The
long observation 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.
rA Crews Get Even start.
At the word the crews ripped their oars
through the water aha shot away on What
seemed equal terms After the first few
strokes Yale had trihe the better of it,.
bnt soon the moses of the shells were right
on line. Harvard settled down to thirty
two stroKesito tthe minute, while the Yale
crew. which had been rowing a thirty
stroke at the most in practice. was rowing
thirty-four strokes 10 the minute. This
lasted for almost half a mile and II became
apparent that the Yale men had been in
structed never TO lose the lead. They
were fighting for II, even though It was at
a big cost ssBys the time the first half
mile nag was reached, however, Yale had
dropped its stroke to thirty-two. Harvard s
gait But even rowing at this Harvard was
getting a little the better OF Yale. When
vthe Yale crew settled down to its normal
gait their shell travelled better and they
gained trife. hut this was not for long
Harvard put on steam and the boats fin
Z ished the mile and half on even terms.
Yales effort however. began to tell on its
men just before the end of the first two
miles and Boulton dropped the stroke back
10 fuua 10 Whan EilIav Sauy he
quickly put his stroke up to thirty-two and
At the, navy yard he once more had his
crew in the dead Yale put its stroke back
10 thirty and. held II over the third mile
As soon as Filley had taken the lead away
from Yale he let his stroke down to thirty
and at this gait both crews passed the two
and a-half mile fiag.and the three mile nag
Half mile from the finish Yale had
dropped its stroke TO twenty-eght from
sheer exhaustion. While Harvard stu held
at thirty But even at this point Harvard
only had 4 second to its credit. For a
quarter OF a mile farther Yale kept Har-
ward from increasing the lead. but over the
next and last quarter OF mile Harvard
began to slip away from it's rival little by
sllttle@ A quarter of mile from the finish
sBoultOn raised his stroke TO thirty-two
where, he gamely held II for a short dis.
lance as Harvard had raised. nrst tc
thirtS-one. then to thirty-two and finally
TO thirty-three. When the Harvard captain
let so the last burst OF his power, Yal,
had finished up every ounce OF its endur
snee and the crimson she'll sped on tC
victory.
The onacial times were as follows:
= :, So Harvard. Yale
ttaif niue ssFsss.s-ss...- 80 90
4 0he mile Observation-Disclosures. SAL ga
Mile and a half .....,-,,,,,,,... $50 SO
Two miles s.s..,,. ......,.....1l:3 80 u:3
TRor and half miles. 3;55 1875