The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-28
GREAT RACE AS SEEN
 FROM TIE EAST BANK Water So Rough That Var sity Race Was Post
 poned Until o:3O, THE RESULT IN DOUBT. Crimsonites Thought Victory Theirs but Illusion is
 Soon Dispelled.
THE RESULT IN DOUBT.

ing to see the Harvard regatta, | expecting to see the first race run off
 at 10 o'clock. Time after time the dif-
 ferent races were postponed, but the
 patience of those who hung on was re-
 Warded, for one of the greatest races
 ever rowed by any Yale and Harvard
 crew was that of yesterday.
 At 1;S0 in the afternoon the New
 York, New Haven and Hartford ob-
 servation train pulled out for Gales
 Ferry to see the start of the varsity
 event. After waiting for an hour in
 front of Red Top the Harvard crew
 quarters, the train was run back to New London without word of expla- nation. On arrival back at the start ing point 1t was announced that the big race had been postponed to 6:9O
 but that the freshman and four-oared
 events would take place immediately.
 And so the train proceeded back to the
 starting line. But the train was the
 only thing that went, for after a three
 hours wait word was sent that the
 races would not take place until to-
 morrow morning, that is, to-day.
 At 6:2O the train again set out for the
 varsity eight-oared race, and, as it was
 decided to have it rowed upstream, it
 took it's station on the bridge.
 While waiting for the crews to be
 brought down from the quarters to the
 starting line the Harvard men sent out
 one of their cheer leaders to lead the
 crimsonites. Although there were as
 many Yale men present, no one seemed
 to get up the requisite nerve to get out
 and lead the sons of Eli through the 1ntricacies of the Yale cheer. After a fifteen or twenty minute wait the launches Eli Yale and John Harvard were seen way up the river, towing the racing shells down.
 When within half a mile of the start ing line the crew men took their places in their shells and rowed down to the starting point. As the Yale crew drew nearer the bridge the blue contingent forgot their former fright and cheered time after time. There was a good deal of trouble in getting away, the liar yard stake boat got out of position and had to be relocated Then the ref eree's pistol failed to operate, and he instructed the crews that he would start them by saying the word ''go."
 After the race was on, the observa- ttion train followed. When it had pull led off the bridge, and caught up to the racers, it looked as If the Harvard crew were three-quarters of length to the good, at the mile the Eli shell had crept up and finally at the three mile stakes, the blue got on even terms | with the crimson. From there on, one then the other would be in the lead. At the three and one-half mile buoy the crews were rowing abreast. Here they entered the passage between the yachts lined up on both sides of the course. [ and except at rare intervals did those on the east bank train see the racing crews, At the finish it looked as though | the outside crew were a quarter of A length ahead.
 As Yale had the west course 1t look ed like her race The Ellis went crazy with joy and excitement for short time but somehow it was understood that if at the conclusion of the race one | cannon was fired Yale was the victor. if two, Harvard. It was two. and the orlmsonites at once rent the air with cheer after cheer while over the Yale contingent fell great silence. The men on the train climbed down and ran shouting, cheering and batting each other on the back, across the lawn to their crew's quarters at the waters edge to welcome their yic- torious eight as they supposed it was. And the followers of the blue were si- lent, their hearts were broken. Every thing seemed to bear out the Harvard claim of victory. The Harvard crew 'owed to quarters like victorious one. while the Yale oarsmen seemed to have lard work to drive their shell through he water, to Gales Ferry.
 Quite suddenly the Harvardites ceas- d their cheering, and became quiet. As o the cause of this the Yale men were until, ust as the train started on it's way back to New London. a gen. lemen, evidently connected with the Harvard quarters. said that the first statement was erroneous. that Dame Fortune had again smiled on the Ellis. Ind they had again came into their 'wn. In a marvelously short time the word had passed from one of the twen- y-seven car train to the other, and the I Tale men went wild, cheering, throwing I heir hats into the air, and dancing up ! md down like a crowd of two-year- : Ids But most of the fellows waited :, ntil New London had been reached. |, nd confirmation of the result given be- ore really believing Eli had won. Then indeed did the sons of Yale let loose, nd celebrate their seventh victory in fight years.
 The picture is one that will never be orgotten by those who saw it. The 4 eflecttor of the setting sun in the ark blue waters of the Thames, while ere and there scattered along the purse, on the bosom of the river grace = llly lined yachts rode at anchor. And r len to have the beauty of the scene o nhanced by the pennants and dress b informs of the different vessels! To \ rown it all, the shells going through h le line of ships, with long, rythmic d rokes, every body moving in unison, l le oar blades flashing in the golden I yiHght 'u