New-York tribune., 1907-06-28
SPURT WINS FOR YALE
H@rad Crc5c Fights GameIg 10 the
End in Gruelling Race.
IBy Telsg'aph to The Trihune.l

New London, Conn, June 27.-Never did Har-
ward give the bulldog a worse scare without ac-
tually beating him than to-day. Stroke for
stroke the varsity crews raced-frst Harvard,
then Yale showing in front. Not until the three
and a half mile mark was passed did Harvard
falter. And then. oars dipping still in perfect
rhythm the stroke still as good as at the start,
the Crimson shell fell back for the third time
and Yale swept 10 victory. a scant half length
ahead of the veterans from Cambridge
Nothing accounts for Yales victory save the
one supreme fact, the better crew Won Glass
might have made Harvard's the better crew, but
Lunt rowed well and gamely. and was strong
when the end came Yale had the last bit Of
reserve power, the final supreme burst Of speed,
the ability to drive the Of its shell the few
feet ahead of the Harvard boat necessary to win.
gamer, pluckier race on both sides. was
never rowed. All through Harvard, discouraged
by the loss OF a magnificent oarsInan, showed
the grit and pluck thar some have come to call
Yale's own. Yale covered the four-mile course
in q minutes 10 seconds. Harvards time was
q minutes 13 seconds
Seventeen minutes past It was when the
Blue oars flashed in the setting sun and caught
the water a full second before the Crimson
blades dipped Just twenty four hours before to
the minute the great fight between Cornell and
Columbia began. For the time of a wild Yale yell
the Blue held the lead: then Harvard rowing
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she'll ahead. SO the shells stayed for half a
mile. AS the flags shot by Yale tried TO creep
up, but the Harvard stroke, which Farley had
dropped 10 thirty-four, like Yale's went up 10
tnlrty-siX, and at the mile post Harvard led by
nearly a quarter of a length
For the next half mile the posItions never
changed The crews not in time and there
was long see-saw the recovery came-6rst
Yale, then Harvard, gaining foot or less lust
after the flags that marked off a mile and half
CT ff1n p-Fsn1 tftNrrs s1
fales stroke up TO thirty-six. Foot after foot
was gained, and in a quarter of a mile more the
TWO shells were nose and nose Then YaIe's
colors rose in mass OF blue on the long obser-
walton trains, and a mighty shout went UP as
the powerful, driving dip OF the blue tipped oars
shot Elys Prov foot two ahead
But Harvard was ready for the spurt and
rarley' calling on his crew for another jump In
the stroke, drew up level again at the two-mle
mark As the coaling station came into sight
lined with eager hundreds. Harvard. going
strong, was drawing away But # was not 10
last Just as the half crazy Harvard crowd saw
second consecutive victory within reach Yale
Degan to creep up and the two and half
i,lile flags We're passed Yale had real lead for
the Ilrst time in the race. 1t was not much-ess
than quarter Of length-but in such a con-
Test IL seemed like yards of dear water
Then. inch by inch. foot by foot. Harvard made
up the lost ground. At the three-mile mark no
judge in the world could have placed the crews
I Literally, there was not an inch between then,
The stroke down to thrty-two here and
for moment ii seemed both were resting for
the final strain. Neither crew sought to squirt
FOR half a mile, and for moment the coxswains
stayed their frantic calls upon their laborine
fellows
THE LAST GRUELLING Squirt.
At the last flags. half a mile from the finish.
Harvard held the lead by bare two feet Ger
tainly not more, perhaps less. Down between
the few yachts that had sailed up stream TO
form semblance of the usual lane the crews
struggled. Both strokes drove their oars into
the water about thirtysix times in sixty sec
onds, Till just before the finish Then, with the
whistles booming. Yale drew away in the dark