The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-11
BEATS YALE
IN BOAT RACE
Second Team of Blues, How
ever, Captures HOnorS
From QuakerS.

Phiadel phia. April 10.--In the first boat
race between the two universities in TWEEN
ty years, the University Of Pennsylvania
eiIzht-oared crew defeated Yale today.
two lengths. over the 11a-mile course in
the Schuylkin river.
The crews rowed against a three-quar-
tiers head wind the entire distance, Time,
sos. Yale reversed matters in the pre-
liminary race for second Fights. winning
from the Pennsylvania juniors by II.
lengths IN Sis 20 Yale for the first
time used an English shell and English
oars.
Never in the history of rowing on the
Schuy!Ein has a crowd OF such magni-
tudo witnessed a boat race here Fully
1900 persons saw the contest
The race left no doubt about the su-
periority Of the Pennsylvania eight
The race for the varsity regulars was
delayed until after > o'clock to let the
wind calm down.
Both crews got an exceptionally good
start. the Yale men getting their oars
into the water A fraction Of a second
ahead OF Pennsylvania. Yale started with
a stroke Of SO to the minute and Penn
sylvania with >.
At the end of the first mile Pennsyl-
vania was a half-length ahead of Yale
and the latter ran their stroke up to So
Pennsylvania raised hers to a. The red
and blue continued to gain and at the
end of the mile open water began TO
show between the two shells.
Yale increases Stroke.
In an effort to overtake Pennsylvania
Captain Howe put the Yale stroke UP to
IS Pennsylvania being content with 81.
Yale spurteG on the next quarter of
mile and for few strokes managed TO
hold Pennsy lvania- Then the Pennsyl-
vanians, without increasing their stroke,
kept drawing away. A quarter Of a mile
from the finish Yale made a final effort
and ran her stroke up to 70.
Pennsylvania responded with stroke
OF Is. which her crew held to the fin
ish, while Yale ran hers up 10 q. Penn
sylvania made very strong finish and
when their eight crossed the finish line
there was a length Of open water between
the two shells.
Yale was a strong to . favorite before
the contest started.
Nothing in the history of sports be
tween the two universities has tended
to cement friendly feelings of Yale and
Pennsylvania so much as these races.
Julian Curtiss Of Yale declared that ne
hoped the trip of the Yale crew and the
race with Pennsylvania would be made
a permanent feature of the Easter vaca-
ton.
Yale Used English Shelf.
An interesting feature of the race was
that the Yale crew rOwed in an English
rugged shell with English oars. Both were
experiments, resulting from the visit Of
Coach John Kennedy to England last
summer TO study the methods Of English
riggings. The 81 nmsTy follows:
Varsity SCARED race, IL miles-Won by
Pennsylvania Hagland, bow; Rogers, .,
Smelling. 3; Breitinger, 4; Walton. ,; Shoe
maker 1captainl. G; Braddock. :; Ballard.
stroke; Westcott. coNswain.
Second. Yale-Rice. bow; GelennN. ..
BTainerd. 8: Wallace. 4; Model, .: Hyde.
.; Mills, :: Howe (captain), stroke; Case.
coXswain.
Time-S.65 and SIS.
Second. SCARED race, IL miles won by
Val
com. 8; ColVin, 4: Baker, <: Peterson, 6;
Holloway, = Brooks, stroke; Fearing.
CoXSWain.
Second. Pennsylvania-BrOwn, bow;
EIeisler. .; Ferguson, 8; Marx, 4; Reeves.
;: Thompson, 5; Bennett, :; Stiles, stroke;
Rose garten. COXSWain.
Time-S:1z 10 and S;4.
Referee-C. B. Wood Of Harvard.