The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-28
YALE WINS THE VARSITY Boat Grew Flashes Over
 Line. WAS RowED UP STREAM Great Crowd Cheered Blue and
 Crimson. New Haven Men Took the Lead and Kept It Over tiA Course ' Hartman Yacht

the la gest crowd that ever witnessed a race on the Thames river. the Yale crew this evening, rowing on an aver age of four strokes to the minute less tha.. Harvard held the big Cambridge eight even until the last half mile when the Blue let out their speed ana won magnificent contest by scant boats length. Never once in the whole four miles did the long, graceful shells cease to lap each other.
 Thousands of persons aboard the ob- servation trains anG on every kind Of floating craft and who lined the shore, sent cheer on cheer to the old rivals as they fought out one of the grandest races in the history of boating. Yales time for the four miles was 21.l0; Har- yards. 21.13.
 The official time for the race:
 Half Mile, Yale 2:24: Harvard 2:26. Mile. Yale 5:16: Harvard 5:16.
 Mile and half: Yale S:3s; Harvard. $40
 Two miles: Yale 1O:41: Harvard 1O:43. Two miles and half: Yale 13:16: \ Harvard. 13:1s
 Three miles: Yale 15:55: Harvard 1855
 Three and a half miles. Yale 1s:s2; Harvard 1882.
 Four miles: Yale 21:1o: Harvard 21:1s.
 Hartman Arrested.
 IuS race was dCCOuApdulSu OJ OhS disagreeable incident. This was the arrest of E. H. Hartman. the rail road magnate by Lieut. Roscoe c. Bulmer, President Roosevelts nav al aide. Lieutenant Bulmer, who was in charge of the rev. owner not to follow the race. The big 'aXrsity struggle had scarcely started when MT. Hartman in DOW erful motorboat began to follow the race. Lieut.. Bulmer and Capt. Sch- wepp, who were aboard the regatta committee boat "The Arr. .S." repeat edly warned Mir. Hartman to stop his engine and get out of tl.e course. MT. Hartman not only paid no attention eo them but took . position right al- Dngside the referees boat and held It. Off the navy yard, Lieut. Bulmer, signaled for a launch and footed the revenue cutter whistle which caused Mir. Hartman finally to look around.
 You are under arrest, sir" shouted Lieutenant Bulmer.
 You will give yourself up to this man who will take you aboard the Gresham to await my orders"
 Then it was discovered that the powerful speedy boat was MT. Harri- mans. Chairman Schwepp, of the re- gatta committees was very angry and / he shouted to MT Hartman in terms which the latter could not mistake. The millionaire leveled his forefinger at Chairman Schwepp and yelled back, Young man, I shall see you later."
 Schwepp's friends aboard the Arrow gave MT. Hartman a gentle laugh. MT. Hartman saw no more of the race but was detained as an ordinary per- son aboard the Greshm until the race was over when Lieutenant Billiard went aboard the Gresham and released MT. Hartman, but ordered his boat tied up
 
 cause MT. Hartman a fine of $500. This was the penalty imposed on a yacht owner at last years race for transgressing the rules governing the course.
 The race was scheduled to be rowed at 1:30 o'clock but at that hour a stiff northwest breeze was blowing that would have swamped a racing shell. At half past ten o'clock this morning William A. Meikelham, the old Colun- bla oar, had been compelled to post pone the freshman eight pared race and the varsity four pared race because the judges and the two crews both agreed that the river was too rough for shell racing. The freshmen and the four pared races were postponed until o'clock, and at [ o'clock when the two eights reached their stake boats, there was scarcely enough wind left to ruffle the hundreds of flags thai floated from the finest yachts of the eastern seaboard. which formed an ave- nue up the river four miles long.
 ROved Up Streanx
 Ihe postponement made it necessary to row the race up stream. but the z crews had the benefit of an unusuaIIv strong tide. Harvard stake boat drift ed and it was ten minutes past T o'clock before Referee Meikelharn shouted "Go." Both boats got away in good style, Harvard at once show ing that she was determined to get the lead. Stroke Farley of the Cambridge eight started into the race rowing thlr- ty-six strokes to the minute. Yale started at thirty three, but quickly dropped her gait down to~thirty, and then to twenty mine. Harvard eased Sup on her stroke just before she reach ed the first half flag and passed this stake going at thirtythree, Harvard got a slight advance at the start. but although Yale was rowing a lower stroke, the Ellis were soon on even terms with the Crimson and at the first half mile were leading Harvard by half boat length. Then Yale settled down into her gait of twenty eight, which she held up to the two and half mile flag. Harvard raised her stroke to thirty-four and cut down Yales lead. The Blue for few strokes ran theirs up to thirty-one, and at this gait held Harvard even.
 The boats did not change positions over the next mile. At the three mile flag the noses of the shells were sig zagging and it was still no one's race. Yale had dropped her stroke to twen- ty-eight to the minute while Harvard was still rowing thlrty-four About this time 1t dawned on the Harvard ex- perts that Yale might have something up her sleeve.
 Exciting Finish.
 Just as the shells swept into the last half mile of the race. stroke Boul- ton, of Yale. let go his first real spurt Up went his stroke from twenty-eight to thirty and then to thirty-five to the minute. Boulton at the end of the race was striking the gait which Harvard hit at the beginning of the race. liar ward had made her spurt and she could