New-York tribune., 1907-06-28

ness and with Harvard game to the end. gain
! ing in the last few strokes. Yale heard the nm
sh gun boom out the salutation 10 It's victory,
won with three seconds TO spare.
Both crews could have rowed another mile.
Perhaps Harvard. defeated even. seemed q little
fresher. But man collapsed IN his seat. no
man even seemed TO want to, In either shell.
Well rowed Yale" came the call from Mr.
Meiklehem, the referee. and no less hearty
shout OF praise rose for Harvard Both crews
rested on their oars they heard the time.
Then Harvard rowed up stream few yards
beside the victorious crew, rowing back to glory
and adulations at Gales Ferry, and turned.
beaten but sure Of praise and congratulation, 10
Red Top.
COURSE SMOOTH AS A MIRROR.
It was a course perfect for rowing and favor
able to Yale when the crews steamed down on
the launches John Harvard and Eli Yale. With
the coming OF the night and the turning OF the
tide the roughness had gone. and where the
whitecaps had tossed a mirrorlike surface lay,
stirred only by the rush here and there of DART
ing motor boats
Harvard had hoped for a course rough enough
to give her veteran oarsmen the chance to show
their powers of endurance. AS the day on
and 1t came to seem that the river would grow
smooth Yales stock went up and Harvard faces
grew long.
Yale. with a green crew, practically speaking.
wanted easy water. and the long postponement
was all in favor Of the Blue
Harvard ready to at 80 O'clock and
there gloom at Red Top when the regatta
committee called hostilities off until 630 o'clock
Though the river rough, and whitecaps
showed here and there. many race has been
rowed in worse water, here and abroad. Ger
tainly POughkeepsie has known rougher river,
and oxford and Cambridge. on the old Thames
rowing they do in March, have battled q
dozen times river that like ocean
In storm compared to the Thames here to-day.
When the race began the tide had turned up
stream, but II helped the oarsmen very little.
II is more than possible that had the race been
rowed downstream earlier in the day better
time than y minutes 10 seconds would have
been made, but under the conditions the time
was fast. Especially fine was the first mile
The official timers. working from behind gave
Yale and Harvard the time. minutes 16
seconds. but Harvard beyond ell shadow OF a
doubt. held the lead here. trifiirg though it was
and may have done even better than the official
time.
OFFICIAL TIMERS NOT AGREED.
All through the race the official timing on the
referees boat disagreed with the position of the
shells seen from the observation trains on
both banks AS a matter Of fact, Harvard led
at almost every flag. though the margin was a
trine in nearly every case
The referees boat which did the official tim
Ing kept as$.rn and it was hard to catch the
times accurately. or course, the final time was
taken at the gun on the judges boat on the
finishing line
There seemed to be little reason for the post
| ponement of the four-oar varsity race Tho
water was smooth. The tide had not yet turned
and both crews were at the starting point when
the order to go back was given Harvard
rowed half a mile downstream at full speed
and then padded back to Red Top This race
with the freshman contest. viii be rowed at
10:3O o'clock tomorrow morning