The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-29
HARVARD 1910
 CREW WINS RACE Varsity Four-Oared One Long Procession With Yale Boat in the
 Lead. BOTH CONTESTS
 UP THE STREAM Freshmen Race a Hot Strug- gle From Start With Slowest Time in
 Years.

New London, June 28.-Harvard won the freshman eight-oared race by one and half lengths, and Yale the var sity four by dozen or more lengths on the morning tide on the Thames river to-day. Both races were up- stream on the incoming tide, in smooth water, and both were rowed in slow time.
 The Oficial Time.
 Freshman -Half-mile: Harvard 2.2S, Yale 2.3S; one-mile: Harvard 5;1S, Yale 5:2S; one-mile and half Har- yard 800, Yale 9:97; finish: Harvard 11:15, Yale 11:19
 Four-oared e-Half-mile: Yale 3:44, Harvard 2:52; one mile; Yale 5:o5, Harvard 5:22; one mile and a half: Yale 9:15, Harvard $50; finish: Yale 12;SS, Harvard 1S;15.
 The freshman race was splendid struggle, a fight from the pistol to the last hundred yards, in which Harvard always had a tantalizing advantage. with enough reserve power to hold her boat just in the lead. No freshman crews ever fought 1t out better, al- though the time was slower than for several years in this event. At the start, which was at the drawbridge, both crews broke water the instant the pistol flashed at 10:21.
 Harvard sent her oars in with hard jerk, and 1t brought just 8 little lead. The stroke seemed little higher than was expected, going fully to 34 for Harvard, and S2 for Yale. The pace of Harvard told, and nearly length to the good was hers before the first flag of the course was passed. Yale tried to even matters, and for moment her boat sprang forward under faster headway, but the crimson could not be caught.
 It was in the half mile, right at the navy yard bend, that the Harvard boat began to plough through the water with greater determination than ever, while Yale had lots of strength and spirit and fought 1t out good and hard. The crimson spurt, which had added fully half length to her lead, was to much to overcome and Harvard freshZ men upheld the glory of their class by winning the third race in eight years and averaging the hard-fought defeat of last year.
 As ths freshmen rowed their shells in shore to transfer to the launches, the four-oared crews went out to their positions for the other race.
 Harvard rowed itself out within mile, and after that Yale was content ito keep up a steady stroke, which slow ly added more lengths to the lead she had taken at the very outset. Dis tances on the water are deceptive, but Yale appeared to have fully fifteen lengths to the good with her men as fresh and smiling as when they took position. The Harvard knen appeared to be well-rowed out.
 Yale had the west course, which is on
 
 the New London side of the river, while Harvard was on the Groton side. The crimson's youngsters quickly began to show their superiority, and rowed a race very much like the Yale varsity rowed against the Harvard varsity last evening. They soon drew away from their rivals, and at the end of the first half mile they were leading Yale by almost one and half boat lengths.
 The order of the crews remained un- changed to the finish, but the Yale youngsters, although eleven pounds lighter to the man than their Harvard 
 rivals, kept up game fight right up to the end. At one time Harvard led Yale by full ten seconds. This was at the mile flag, where the time was: Harvard, 5:1S; Yale, 6:2S, Over the next mile of the course Yale gradually cut this lead down until at the finish the crimson was only four seconds ahead. At the first half mile flag Har- yard dropped her stroke down to 30 to the minute, at which gait she held it utnil half mile from the finish, when she raised 1t up to S2.
 At the end of the first half mile Yale dropped her stroke down to S2, and at the mile to 30. Then the Ellis let their stroke down two points lower, until they got their second wind At the mile and a half Yale put her stroke back to S2 to the minute, and then raised 1t up tO a5 in long, hard spurt