The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-28
HARVARD IN A
WHIRL WIND FINISH ON THE THAME
RecordBreaking Crowd Witnessed RacevcOry Uncertain Up
to Last Spurt-tiarriman Placed Under Arrest

until 4 o'clock. The big crowd that
never considers the oarsmen, but al
ways wants to see the Iace@was
gr,ow'ng hnpa++iien, wien Shortly lbe-
49, . O'Clock thu breeze lgradu aally
uiea and at Z o'cIock whes The llwo
etslls reached their stake boat, iIls1
scareelv scarce ,ne ! Eawss9ridsEee there was was
,.,1,sst - - :, wind to rufiie the
.ha nu,'1reus aaast ~ achegs he that hoated from
board, which forn.ti - &, avenue all
the way up the river ft's E>ur mils<
What little wind there V Wv
almost straight across The course, but
it was not sufficient to interfere with
rowing in any way. The/postpone-
ment made it necessary to row, the
race up stream, but the crews yhad
the benefit of an unusually strong
tide. Harvard S stake boat drifted
and II was ten minutes past Z O'Clock
before Referee Meikelham first asked
Harvard aHd then Yale, Are you
ready?" and on receiving no re-
sponse, shouted. Go.
Both boats got away in good style,
Harvard at once showing that she
was determined to get the lead.
Stroke Farley of the Cambridge eight
started in the race rowing SO strokes
to the minute. Yale started at 33
but quickly dropped her gait down to
80 and then to %. Harvard eased
up on her stroke just before she
reached the first half mile flag and
passed this stake going at 33 strokes
to the minute. Harvard got a slight
advantage at the start. but although
Yale was rowing a lower stroke, the
Ellis soon were on even terms with
the Crimson and at the first half mile
flag were leading Harvard by half
a boat length. Then Yale settled
down into her gait of 2S strokes to
the minute, which she maintained up
to the 2 1-2 mile flag Harvard
raised her stroke to "a and cut down
Yale's lead The blue for few
strokes ran theirs up to 81 and at
this gait held Harvard even. The
boats did not change positions over
the next half mile At the three
mile flag the noses of the shells were
seen sagging and it was still either's
and neithers race. Yale had drop
ped her stroke to 20 TO the minute,
while Harvard was still rowing "a.
About this time it dawned upon
the Harvard experts that Yale might
have something up her sleeve. Old
Harvard oarsmen like G. b. Storow
would not believe that Yale was row.
ing such low stroke until they had
held the watch themselves and count
ed them. Just as the shells swept
into the last half mile Stroke Boul-
ton, of Yale, let go his first real
spurt. Up went his strokes from 2S
to 80 and then to 35 to the minute.
Boulton, at the end of the race, was
striking a gait that Harvard hit at
the beginning Harvard had made
her spurt and she could not make an
other one. 1t was this final effort
of Yale that won the race for her.
But Harvard was not easily whip
ped. Although the blue raised their
stroke seven points they crept away
from Harvard on the last half
mile only by inches and she was not
able to show clear water between the
boats. The flag dropped. Her vic
tory was won by q scant boat length.
Lunt, who rel1aced Glass in the
Harvard shell 1t number six Two
days ago, rows magnificent lace.
The only man in the Harvard boat
who showed any sign of over-exhaus-
ton was Severance at No :, AS the
flag fell his oar slippe1 out of his
hands and he fell over on the knees
of Captain Bacon. Ee quickly re-
vived, however, and rowedr over to
Red Top with his crew. The time of
21 minutes and 10 seconds UP stream
is the fastest time on record for ar
upstream race. The record for the
course is 20 minutes and 10 seconds,
but this was made down stream with
tide and wind. The rowing Of 'Yale's
crew, which, man for man, was not
physically the equal of Fla Yards is
the greatest achievements af John
Kennedy, the blue hn{Nssional
COACH 4NSAg Al
The difference between Jthe two
crews was presumably, that \ Yale
used her strength more economically
than did Harvard.
The postponed freshman eight
Dared and varsity four-oared races