Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-07-22
GREAT RACE
OF YALE.HARVARD
Yale Stroke Collapsed
In Last Effort
To Win

With substitute stroke in the seat
of Griswold, who had fallen almost
lifeless on his oar, and with two 9TH
er men on the verge of collapse,
Iales varsity crew went down to de-
feat at the hands of Harvard on the
Thames this evening after one of ths
most pathetic struggles in the histoGS
of Intercollegiate regattas.
Three minutes and half after
Harvard had crossed the line the
Yale eight, with tears streaming
down the face of every man, passed
the last flag, sobbing alond as they
dropped their oars and listened to tho
thousands cheering delriously for
the victory of the crimson.
Harvard had been picked to lose
the race which she won under such
dramatic circumstances. She also
won the day, her first-year crew taxi
ing the freshmen's contest by two
and half clsan lengths.
Brilliant Array Sees Battle.
Secretary OF War and Presidential
nominee William II. Taft sat in an
observation train and watched the
dragging of his colors in the water.
Aboard the Presidential ship Mrs.
Roosevelt cheered the victorious sons
of her husbands alma matter. So did
all the younger Rooseyelts, while AS
sistant Secretary of State Bacon and
Mr.. Newberry of the Navy added
more of the luster of national official
dom to the vivid scene
After IA false start the two crews
were sent away finally at G:O9 p. m.
Yale hit the initial strokes ahead be-
fore hundred feet had been rowed.
A moment later her lead was almost
sixty feet.
Harvard Strikes Her Stride.
Then Harvard struck her stride.
Richardson, her stroke, called for Il
ispurt. 1t came with vengeance.
Striking 1t up to forty the crimson
crew drew up alongside the Eli shell
In the next two yards, nosed IL out
of first place in ten yards, and with
both crews rowing so evenly that the
backs of the rival oarsmen swung in
perfect unision, the battle began then
and there in the first mile of the race.
Into the second mile the two Fights
swept abreast. Yale had raised her
stroke to SO, but even though the
crimson dropped to "a ,.he New Hav-
en- crew could not regain the lead.
Griswold, the stroke. was splash
ing badly. When he caught crab
as the shell reached the naval station,
he nearly fell from the boat.
Yale's Stroke Collapses.
In the last effort the boy managed
to recover, rowed on doggedly for
half mile more and then all ut once
tumbled forward across the cox
SWANS legs, completely spent.
a cry, half sob, half yell of over
wrought excitement already Mt hys-
terra pitch, went upward from the
crowds. They could see the exhaust
ed Griswold lying with his head
across his breast, while, the coXswain
dashed up water in his face and while
the rest of the crew struggled frantlc-
lally to keep their shell in Roadway.
Next moment two other members
of the crew toppled backward. But
while the spectators still cried out
| these two came back to something
like Il semblance of rowing and
lsplashed away ahead and swept into
the third mile Of the race with Har-
ward easily six lengths ahead.
Just then the Yale crew showed
the pluck that has made it's college
emblem n bulldog. As suddenly as
he had collapsed, Griswold came to
again. He flung back his head, grip
ped the oar that had been lying use-
less on the starbuard side and began
to row.
Desperate Final Squirt.
llopelessly beaten, utterly spent,
the crew took up the semblance of IL
stroke and when the coXswain called
for II they even managed to brace
IL into a squirt in frultlcss final eff
fort TO retrieve the day.
Nothing came of it, but a SPLENDID
show of gameness. 1t was so futile
that Coach Kennedy ran mp in the
Yale launch and ordered the men to
quit. They dropped on the oars ana
the shell lay still while Griswold, al
most lifeless, was taken out and
substitute put in his seat
Then with Harvard already across
the line the beaten men took up the
pathetic pursuit again and rowed un-
til the flag was passed.
1t was not fast race. Even in
1.-THE two miles of fight Harvard went
no faster than 1888, with the tired
Elians four seconds behind.
Some sailors who got away with an
Ian ice cream frapzpr that y.ae In E.nr