Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-29
First Victory for Years---Ya|e Wins
Varsity Four-oar and FreshmanRaces.
New Park at Salem, n. H. Opens With Big
Crowd Good Races Betting.
HARVARD AND YALE.

New London. June 2S.-In sight of
the greatest crowd ever gathered here
on race day since 1899, coming after
years of defeat and under the auspices
of a new rowing coach, and after two
ing the Crimson's triumph was like
wine and bread To the starving wand
erer in the desert 1t was q victory
over great Yale crew, Il crew that
had smashed all records Of the Thames
in practice. and went to the stake boat
4 faVOrite. To whip such a crew under
such conditions was a triumph which
wcrrants Harvard's joy tonight
Harvard won and this tells the whole
story for Harvard. But Yale rowed q
race this afternoon that will live long
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 between
the swings of 10 powerful backs.
Then it was that the endurance or
power, or in other words the physical
makeup Of the Harvard boat, put in
the killing touches for Yale. The Yale
coXswain called for a final squirt but
such men in the Yale boat as Boulton
and Noyes, who at their best possess
ed no such endurance as men like Fill
ley and Bacon, did not have the
strength to put any more power into
the stroke. They tried it but their
! oars literally slipped away from them.
There Harvard for the first time began
to open up clear water between the two
shells and in the last 10 or Is strokes
of the race Harvard got most of her
lead. Noyes. Yales No. 6. from ex-
hauston, began to miss the stream on
the catch and swing 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. 5. 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 Boulton's face and when
| Coxswain Barkalow finally yelled
Vast" Boulton fell forward on his
| oars. Dick Morse, Yales captain, sit
ting up like hero, splashed water up
on 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.
Harvards 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 tumul-
tuous Cambridge men and sympathiz-
| erS.
Harvard won the race by less than
two lengths and half. Her time was
% minutes and two seconds; Yale's
% minutes. IL seconds. 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 90 minutes and 10 sec
onds, made by the Yale crew in 1888.
The time set for rowing the race was
4 o'clock and when at $50 O'Clock
Referee Richards with the judges, f.
c. Storrow for Harvard and w. w.
Skiddy for Yale. steamed up over the
| course in the Scout, the wind was
blowing ominously strong for Yale. 1t
has been admitted ever since the crews
reached the Thames that Harvard had
the best men physically and that
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