The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-25

the forty-one races Yale has won twen-
ty-three, while Harvard has eighteen
victories TO her credit.
Winner of four cared race: Yale. Time
10:331s.
Winner of Freshmen's eight cared race:
Harvard Time 9:5s1S.
New London, June 25.-This was
the day for the great college regatta
between the crews of Yale and Har-
ward. The first contest was the four
cared race between the varsity crews.
The second the struggle between the
eight-oared crews.
The Four Dared Race.
The four-oared race was called first.
Observation trains pulled out or the
depot at 1920 and 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 1G:40 the
oarsmen were at the navy yard and
under the lee of the launches; the
members of the four-oar took their
seats in the shells. The jump of the
waves seemed to spill little spray into
the frail craft, but it was not enough
TO cause worry. The crowo on the
west bank trains cheered and the Yale
adherents broke into the "Boola"
song to band accompaniment, the ecno
crashing back and forth and dying
away as the starter held up his hand
10 indicate to the. crew captains that
the pistol was ready. At 1859 the
crack of the revolver started the fours,
Harvard breaking water first and
shooting the shell a little into the lead.
1t seemed high stroke for the
crimson. which Yale's longer reacn
but cleaner cleavage seemed to be slow
In comparison, Harvard's counting
about 35 and the Blues just under 80.
Harvard rowed hard in that first
quarter mile and when the half mile
stake went by the Crimson shell was
good length to the good. Harvard
was on the westerly side.
The water got a 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 well. and inch by
inch she cut down the seeming advan-
tage of her opponent, scant as ii was.
Yale's coxswain was laying his
course true while there was a trife
of yawing of the Harvard boat, or
l else 1t 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 looked a
bit better for the finish and this prov
ed true. The mile mark was soon
astern and the crews on equal terms
settled down to work. Harvard tried
TO get a lead again. the little squirt
being responded to by Yale, who then
was just getting her gait. Whatever
leTd Harvard had faded away and
with only half a mile to the draw
bridge Yale drove the nose of her
shell in the front. Her men stretched
their backs and raised their stroke,
and to the thousands on the draw
bridge the result was evident almost
two minutes before the finish. The
Yale crowd yelled yale wins and
the victory was declared before either
shell was within an eighth of the fin
fish line. Harvard's stroke wavered.
her men seemed to have lost their
freshness. while the blues with smiles
on their faces, gave impetus to those
closing strokes which set the Yale
boat over the line three lengths in the
lead. Quick as a flash as the shell
of Yale slid under the bridge her men
let out a lusty yell for old Yale and
then one for Harvard as a compli-
ment. The cheer was taken up by the
crowd overhead. The official time:
Yale 10:331s Harvard 10:43.
Secretary Taft is Late.
Secretary Taft did not come down
from New Haven for the early races.
reserving his visit for the varsity
eight-oared race this afternoon. The
presidential yacht was anchored near
aud Mrs Roosevelt and the roosevelt
! children stood on the Geek waving
their greeting to the triumphant crew.
THE FRESHMEN'S RACE.
Harvard Won in the Eight OareG Con-