Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
HARvARD'S CREW
DEFEATS OLD ELI
YALE VARSITY LOSES TO GRIM
SON ON THAMES
WINNING EIGHT DARED BOAT
LEADS BY SIX LENGTHS
Cambridge Athletes Show Splendid
Endurance in Upstream Race
Before 10000 Spectators
at New London
(By Associated Press.)


NEW LONDON, Conn.,, July LIN a
notable exhibition of rowing by a crew
remarkable for its physical endurance,
Harvard this evening defeated Yale In
their annual varsity eight-oared boat
race on the Thames.
The Crimsons crew led from start to
finish and won by six boat lengths.
Harvard's time was q minutes so sec
onds; Yale's, 20 minutes 10 seconds.
BY this victory Harvard won her Sec
ond consecutive boat race from Yale In
twenty eight years. Since 1885 Harvard
has won five varsity races from Yale.
Since Wray has been coaching at
Cambridge, Yale and Harvard met
three times and the Crimson has won
twice.
The greatest crowd that ever assem-
bled on the Thames poured into New
London today. Earvards growing con-
fldence in her boating system brought
double and quadruple the number that
usually follow the Crimson to the
Thames, while Yale's determination to
win back her glory on the river brought
a record breaking Yale crowd.
1T was estimated that at least 10000
persons witnessed the race from trains
and every other kind of vehicle, and
from the yacht fiotilla.
Although Harvard won by a hand
some margin and administered a crush
ing defeat to Yale, the race was Bit
terly contested up to the last half mile.
All the way up the river the two
eights rowed with almost equal pre-
ciSion.
Crimson Creeps Away
Rowing all the way two strokes and
sometimes three strokes to the minute
more than Yale, the Crimson eight
crept away from the Blue little by
little.
For two and a half miles Yale kept
within a boats length of her rival
Then Harvard put on power and in
creased her lead first to three lengths
and then to four lengths and finally
to six lengths.
Yale spurted with her old-time deter
mination, but it was in vain.
The official record was:
Harvard-Half mile, 1885, mile, $40;
two miles, 10:45; three miles, 1910;
four miles. 21:50.
Yale-Half mile, 2:27: mile, 5:12; two
miles, 10:4S; three miles, 1920; four
miles. 22:i0.
Winning distance, six lengths.
The stroking of the crews by miles
follows:
Harvard-Start, 80; one mile, "a; two
miles. 34 three miles, S5; four miles.
finish 36.
YaIe-start, Ss; mile, 81; two miles,
32; three miles, "a; four miles, finish'
&c.
The explanation of Yale's defeat is
not difficult. Harvard, with a crew
that averaged almost six pounds to the
man heavier than Yale, was able to
row right through the race at gait
that averaged two strokes to the min
ute faster than Yale's, and still get
out of this stroke her maximum of
speed.
Incidentally, the race demonstrated
that Wray Is a great coach. Less than
two weeks ago, on the eve Of the con-
test, he deposed Sargent, man con-
sidered a great stroke, and put in his
place Roger Cutler, whose physical
proportions caused many grave fears
about the wisdom of the change. 1t
was this change, however, that saved
the race for Harvard. Sargent rowing
in the form in which he had been
pacing the Crimson eight could not
have won for Harvard today.
Cabinet Members Present
The race was rowed upstream with
the tide. In the winning Harvard
eight were two sets of brothers. Roger
Cutler, the Harvard stroke, is a brother
of Eliot Cutler of the Harvard bow.
while at numbers and 5, the two
Withingtons of Honolulu rowed. AT
No. sat Eliot Bacon, son of ex-Sec-
retary of State Bacon, whose two
brothers had preceded him as Harvard
oarsmen, as lad their father Former
Secretary Bacon, leaning against the
rail of the referees launch, The Scout,
watched the race. On the Mirage was
Postmaster General Hitchcock, while
Secretary of the Navy Won L. Meyer
saw the contest from the U. S. S.
Dolphin.
1t was just minutes past o'clock
when the crack of Referee Meikle-
hams pistol started the crews in the
race. Both crews got away in fine
form.
over the first half mile the struggle
was practically an even one up to
within a few lengths of the flag, when
Harvard began to push the nose or
her shell to the front
Just beyond the two-mile flag Yale
made her first determined effort to cut
down Harvard's lead. Wallis, the ELS
stroke raised his gait to "a to the
minute and for few lengths 1t looked
as though he would be able to over
take the Cambridge boat. But Roger
Cutler also had something in reserve
and also raised his stroke two points
Harvard passed the two and half
mile flag still leading Yale by three