The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-06-30
OLDTIRE RIVALS APPEAR
WELL MATCHED THIS YEAR
In FOrIy-TW0 Races RoNsd YaIs
Has Won TWHnty-ThTue and
Harvard Nineteen
(ny AssocIated proaal

lay Assoclated Prosal
New Haven. Conn. juno 3d.
President TAFT arrived hsFc sosay "a
attend tho Yalo commencement ex
ercises.
New London, Conn. jane 50 An
arrangements FOR iho Yal@ Harvafa
boat races, which win be- rowoa Ia
he Thames tomorrow have beoo com.
pletcd. The four-oarnd race wan 10
fuwcd a. iO.SO ocl0rk from the head
n mo lourmilc course aOwnAtfaam
10 the navy yard The freshmen race
WI be i0Wud immediately after the
lnish Of the fouroarnd race, startling
4 tho navy yard aud finishing 1t the
)rldge Tbe race between tho ualvnr.
ity crows will start Al SIX O'Clock
# The bridge ana VIII finish four
miles upAlroum
In New London today outward and
lsihla hlHns arc abundant that the
sreal aquatic event Is near at hand.
ho entire city has dnRned holiday at
lfe. and hotels. boarding houses and
lrlyate homes are filling with QIa.
tors. Tomorrow mourning special
sdins. t0als, trolley ~afe and aus0
mobiles win bring IN aruy II SIGHT
eeili frcm New York New Haven
'aslon and many intermediate points
Everyone n looking forward 10
ifand contest w the varsity race.
'rum mo time lrlAls OVER the FOUR
nile course 4 appears as II the uld
walls were wen matched this year
'p'h eighis have negotiated she four
Hlle COURSE Ia ~ minutes aud IS ene.
ndH, and the two trials were made
Hder ldenllcally similar conditions.
0nllulily the Yale crew IS 4 big
aYeflie for tho annual racc. as Is nut
ual enough lu view of Inc scafeilY 3f
iartapd Victories On the water Tor
10 last twenty or twenty-five YEARS.
md Yaie ls generally q iay0filo on
general principles moro than on any
spert comparison of tho crews.
The prestige Harvard galned BY her
ietury over Yale last year has been
ilmmet hy her failure tn make etoa
sslnst Cornell thls spring PROB.
ibly u Il were not Tor the fact that
harvard proved 70 be 10 iar superior
p Yale last Sear. and that TIE Has.
ard she'll cnnlalnS most of tho men
9ho made up last Neara crew the
ale varsity would be decided Eav.
rite
From OF appearances The two crews
seem 10 be more evenly matched this
wear than Is usually the case lfn TT
late neither has shown any marked
pperoally over the other. To-day the
eppfts f'oIa Red Top and from Gales
Terry are 70 The effect that both
shts are 10 the best 0f physical con
lItlnu
aeoord 0f The Races.
For fil'yscven years. with 0eea.
loual intervals. the crews Of Yale
nd uaYard have batiled. the rival
liue ans crimson having been borne
latlng al those years By four. six.
md elght0a-cd crews. The first
nee between crews Of tho two uni
fefsiilea took place on Lake Wlnua
esaukep in 1852. No record og The
went was kept save Tho fact that
iaryard was mo wlancr aud faen
here WIS lapse Of three wears until
hey met again. this Tins "a the Con.
1ectlcut iiyer, AZ Springfield That
face WAS alAO won BY Harvard Id 1900
+ 1859 The racing ground shifted to
yliir Quinsigem0nd, where Il remain.
II for eight years. Harvard winning
five OF ihe threc.mllc uWes. The
contest 10 1870 took place on I.aka
saitonstal ana WAS another Har.
Nard victory SINCE 1878 the crews
have bceH rowing NJ New London.
IN tbe foriy1as races that have
been rowed since the initial contest
n 1852, our points now iieparate The
eunieA'lng universities Yale having
Non twenty.throe races and Harvard
nineteen
Early ID the history sf The event
i WIS fowed over a twomIle course.
which H1e increased 70 three miles
II fgaE Again the distance was IN
creased Il 1876 thls lime "a four
miles, witch has been lhe length of
he varsity races ever alice yale
holds The record for that distance.
having covered the course IN 1885
n 20 mlusdes 10 secoudr Last year
The race vas won By Harvard In e
minutes 10 seconds.
Jno. NJ sllrpler has sold helf 4.
iefeet Ia \ = paper. iiie pawnec CoHf
% J. r. McCulrham. Whd
has been superintendent of ethoaIs as
ff4Wnen for two Voura Tka fsf4az|