The Washington herald., 1908-06-26
RAGING AND OTHER SPORTING NEWS
HARVARD WINS.
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from closer TO the heart. After that
showing to-day Harvard and Yale are
closer than ever as friendly rivals. Yales
finishing time was not taken.
Big BIZ Taft. OF Yale. need not con-
slider himself a hoodoo for Yale just be-
cause GriswoId collapsed and the crew
had to stragsle in a loser. That crew did
not lose anything. And every Harvard
man who rollicked. about the streets OF
New London tonight loud in his giee
that Harvard again had won from the
Blue. said every few minutes; But
wasn't It plucl1y and game Of those fel-
lows to finish that way?"
They did not have 20 be Yale men who
praised the Blue tonight. II was said
long before the race this afternoon that
Harvard was going TO row the race hard
from the start. II came up that Harvard
was determined 10 go the distance on the
English plan. They were rowing In an
English pattern boat, and they were go
ing far and were going TO handle the
race after the style Of the English col
lege crews.
Go Out from Start.
They were going out from the start.
and they were going to put It 10 Yale
from the moment they flashed forth from
the start. It was to be either that Yale
would come home alone or Harvard
would There was TO be no second.
e,t.o.-- ,,-or- 81, tac+ycs tho+ mt T(icba rd-
sons name down In the list with Per
kins. Storrow, Higginson, and Filley, the
men who have captained winning crews
for Harvard in the last twenty-odd
years
The varsity race to-day was slow.
Harvard finished the four miles in 2i:l0
Even when Yale was rowing its best.
the time was not fast, because there was
strong head wind against the crews.
II was not so much the time as the way
the crews rowed that counted. The
fractional times for Harvard and for
Yale. as far as the Blue went, We're:
Half-milo-Haryard 2:3s: Yale 2.s
One Mile-Havard 8 81 Yale. $50
Mile and a half-HarYard 9:l2, Yale. 9.l6.
Two mlos-Harvard. is; YJe. u57.
Two miles and a haf-HaTyard. H,]bi Yale. Aa3
Three miles-Harvard. $50.
Three miles and a han-Hauard. II0.
Hour milcs-Harvard. HlO.
The victory over the Blue in the var
sity race gave Harvard TWO OF the three
races Of the day. With a victory OF this
kind over the Yale varsity and new
record established IN the freshman race
which Harvard won, there was no dispo-
sltion 10 be worried. because the Blues
actually carried OF the four-oared race
Great Crowd Sees Struggle.
Probably a greater crowd of persons
never before saw the races. Every train
this morning and in the early afternoon
poured in q mob Of Harvard and Yale
men fresh from the commencement exer-
clses. The hotels were jammed and the
streets were filed with a flying process
sion OF automobiles. all bound for some
spot or another. Some were going down
TO the beach. others up along the roads
10 take q look al tho crew quarters-they
could not get any nearer-and all gayly
decorated with flags of the colleges They
dashed along with sirens shrieking and
whistles and horns going. forming not a
small part OF this greatest aquatic show
AAr
In the fe.tninity on land.
Harvard's performance in the freshman
race was the feature OF the morning con-
tests. II was eNpccteA that Yale would
win the four-oared race anu the Blue
did finish first. But II was not as easy
victory as had been predicted. in spite
OF a crab that Reece. the Harvard stroke
caught In the four-oared race just after
passing the mile mark, which cost Har
ward a length at least
In the freshman race the Harvard crew
went out from the start, as II determined
20 get even for the other race and N,
result certainly was an abiding satisfac
ton 10 the Crimson.
It was in a sense, too. Taft day. Tn,
crowds all surrounded the station wher
Secretary Taft and the class OF rs came
i'm from New Haven in the afternoon
They hung about car No. : in the New
York. New Haven and Hartford train
where Taft and his class were. Their,
were cheers for Taft, and every one
wanted 70 know the minute he STRUCK
town. They cheered him when he cheere,
for Yale and they sympathized with lin
when he was sorry for Griswold. If th5
election had been held to-day in New
London. II would have been Taft by ac
clamation.
IN the harbor and along the river were
the usual line OF yachts. There were no.
as many as in former years, but ther,
were more official boats. Mrs. Roosevelt
and her children were on the Sylph foi
the morning races. In the afternoon
Theodore. jr.. and Ethel had a party o
friends on the Sylph, and Mrs. Roosevelt
was on the Mayflower. Assistant Secre
"a ~ of tho NAVY N-au-ha~rv- was IN n.
Dolphin. Assistant Secretary of State Ba
con was on a house boat. The United
States training ship Hartford. which sen
a crowd OF mddies into the city: the Chi
cago and Olympia. cruisers, and IN,
monitors Florida, Arkansas, and New
Haven were also there.
After the race Coach Kennedy said
Harvard beat US by merit. 1 have n,
excuses TO offer"
Howe. No. In the Yale crew. wa
elected captain for next year.
Harvard's men said they were not sur
whether they would elect a captain a
once. At the Yale quarters it was saiC
tonight that Griswold had come arounC
all right.
Men I'm Crimson Shell.
Sullivan Amory Sargent. IT, &c. Of Brookline
| stroke. prepared for college at Brookine Hig
School, where he rowed for two years on the schoo
crew, He rowed ? on bis freshman crew last year
He is twenty years old. weighs 1914 pounds and
feet 10 inches in height
] John Richardson. ir Cs. Of Chestnut Hill No
and captain prepared for COLLEGE al Noble an
Grcenoughs School. where he rowcd for one year
In his freshman year he rowed on bis class crew
and in sophomore and Junior years rowed 3 and
respectively. the university crew. He is twenty
one years old, weighs lS pounds and is feet Il