Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-07-07
Sixty Thousand Witness Varsity
Eight Triumph over the
Yale Grew.
BLUES STROKE COLLAPSES
Cleverness Of Crimson Coach in
Selecting Big Fellows Ac-
countable for the Kill
ing Pace Set.

New LONDON, Conn.,, juno Son the
broad four-mile stretch on the Thames
river between this city and Gales Ferry
Harvard met Yale to-day in their 44th
annual rowing regatta. Five lengths was
Harvar4's margin Of success In the
varsity eght-oared race. three lengths in
the freshman eight-oared race and four
lengths In the varsity four-oared race
The freshman four race won by Yale last
evening. the sweet drop in Yale's
bitter cup of defeat.
II is estimated that GO, coo persons saw
the final race and that 1900 of them wcre
from out of town.
This multitude saw three as thrilling
races as ever cut the waters OF tho
Thames.
Here is the time in each race
Varsity eight-farvard, 2o.46 1-2; Yale,
2l:4
Varsity four-ilarvard, 1890 L.; Yale,
1915
Freshman eight-lIarvard, 11:5i IL; Yale
1902
The varsity four and freshman eight
Dared races were two miles long and were
rowed up stream this morning The
varsity eight started their four miles
struggle down stream at 4:S, p. M, only
seven minutes behind schedule time. 4
northwest breeze caused slow time in the
early events but the main race of the
day was roWcd on water ideally smooth
ana the time was the fastest in any down
stream race on the Thames since 1905
when a victorious Yale crew covered the
foHr miles in ~ minutes I? 20 seconds
BIG FELLOWS SETTLED TT.
The victory of the crimson in the big
varsity race was not unexpected al
though Yale for the past 10 days had
Deem rated rather more dangerous
than she proved.
The blue held close to the crimson
up to the last half mile. Then the
superior physical power in the Cam
bridge boat settled the contest.
As IIarvard's big eight which aver
aged seven pounds Il man heavier than
iale's and one inch taller swung down
through the long avenue of yachts the
wcarers of the crimson INDUCED in a
pandemonium of joy. Cheers rent the
green hills and the crimson flags nut
tered at every point of vantage, as
the Yale crew with Ben Wallis reel
ing at the stroke oar. pulled to pluclly
finish. Every Yale man was at his
oar until the nag dropped Then
Waihs let go MS oar ana leaned on
ms ou'rlEEer nut only Tor an instant
re was soon PACK IN ms seat ana the
crew pulled down the river
Inc DIG race was another demon
s'ration or tNe cIeNer''cSS OF jim
| Wray, the Harvard coach, IN turning
out last crews composed OF Dig men
rf>t -. At,
The crew which represented Yale TINS
afternoon was not made up of weak
lings, 1t averaged lllHs pounds put
Wray had crew when averaged l'9
pounds to the man.
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