Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-25
Harvard Wins Freshman Eight
Contest in Best Time
Ever Made.
MRS. ROOSEVELT, SPECTATOR
Most Interest Conferred Around Event
Which Wearers of Blue Pulled
Down With Ease.

New London. June 25.--Harvard won
the eight-oared freshmens race with
Yale ON the Thames river today by
length and a half. The distance was
two miles and the official time min
utes, 1914 seconds.
The four-oared race, the feature Of
the mornings program was called first
The observation trains pulled out OF
the station at 1920 ana were on the
way up the river just as the launches
John Harvard and Elihu Yale were
taking their crews on board. There was
no delay. The river was pretty good
to look at although the breeze had
freshened to six miles. At 1910 the
oarmsmen were at the navy yard and
under the lee of the launches the mem
beers of the fours took their seats in
the shells. The jump of the waves
seemed to spill little spray into the
craft but it was not enough to cause
worry.
HARVARD TOOK LEAD.
The crowd ON the west bank tralns
cheered and the Yale adherents broke
into the "Boola' song to band accom-
paniment, the echo crashing back and
forth and dying away as the starter
held up his hand to indicate to the
crew captains that the pistol was
ready. AT 1852 the crack OF the re.
volver started the tours, Harvard
breaking water first and shooting the
shell a little into the lead.
YALE ROWED LONG.
1t seemed high stroke for the Grim
son. while Yale's longer reach but
cleaner cleavage seemed to he slow In
comparison. Harvard's counting about
30 and the Blues just under 80 Har-
ward rowed hard in the first quarter
mile and when the half mile stake went
by the Crimson shell was a good length
to the good. Harvard was on the west
erly side.
YALE GAINS STEADILY.
The water got little rougher as the
current Is strong below the navy-yard
and this made both crews drop their
stroke little to get more power, Yale
was coming we'll and inch by inch she
cut down the seeming advantage of her
opponent, scant as it was.
EQUAL AT MILE.
Yates coxswain was laying his
course true while there was a trife
of yawing In the Harvard boat, or else
N was the effect of the waves. Coming
Into the water just below the mile the
Blue hit up the stroke a notch or two
and the shells came on about equal
terms Yale then looked a bit better
for the finish and this proved true.
The mile mark was soon astern and
the crews, on equal terms, settled down
TO work. Harvard tried to get lead
again. the little squirt being responded
to by Yale. who then was just getting
her gait.
VICTORY IN SIGHT.
Whatever lead Harvard had had
faded away and, with only half mile
to the drawbridge, Yale drove the nose
of her shell to the front Her men
stretched their backs and raised their
stroke and to the thousands on the
drawbridge, the result was evident al
most two minutes before the finish.
The Yale crowd yelled yale wlns!
and the victory was declared before
either shell was within an eight of
mile of the finish line. Harvard's
stroke wavered, her men seemed TO
have lost their freshness, while the
Blues with smiles on their faces, gave
impetus 10 those closing strokes which
sent the Yale boat over the line three
lengths in the lead.