The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-06-30

ROWING RACES
THREE CONTESTS IN WHICH
BLUE AND CRIMSON WILL
STRIVE FOR NHoNoRs.
YALE HARVARD q
In Present Record OF TWO Opposing
Colleses--FIrst Race 1880 =. NJ;
Second Immediately after;
@Last Race p. m.

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classics Of college sports, are to be
contested again Tomorrow, over the
Thames river course. which has been
The scene OF alternating triumphs Of
the Crimson@and the Blue for many
years past. STe program OF to-mor
owls races is al follows:
Fre.hman Eight-ored race; Start
miles up stream opposite the Navy
Yard. Uresert record for upstream
course Harvard freshman crew
Of 1907, IN 2 minutes 1914 seconds
record for dowstrealn course. Ifar
| sard Freshman Of lsse, in 9lminutes
ss Seconds. WI A
Varsity Fcura: start at Conclusion
Of Fressaan race. Distance, fwe
miles boMnlng at Navy Yard and fin.
FISHING two. miles upstthaa arivcE off the
harvard quarters at Rsd Fap. Pres.
feeeraf Vale crew Of 1908 III 10
|a lsses, s8a eegonds. .....
fsi;u 1ist9sradN Race Start
hopy Gve n. MI distance, tour
lies, gomu It cam, ssarsiag off
aryagd apartsFs at Red Top, and
lissfng al railroad bridge. Present
hi hing I at railroad draw-bridse.
Present yale-Harvard Tames record
leld by Yale crew OF 1888, 20 minutes
and 20 seconds over downstream
course. Yale crew Of 1907 also holds
the upstream record, in the same
time, 30 minutes ard 10 seconds.
Harvard and Yale rowing antedates
ali other Intercollegiate sport, Back
n 1851, tha only each other over a
n 1852. two crews in crude boats
,ulled over a two mile course on
AXE Wtnnlpess1lkee, and Harvard
--,.oas--..ssaaasa-.tfat iastial event, sthe
two univer.ities have met 43 times
n various places, and at various dis,
majority of the early races and Yale
'roving faster in later years, until
-o-day the record stands; Yale 23,
Harvard 21.
From Lake Winnipesaukee the
,cene shifted to the Connecticut river
at Springfield; then to Lake Quinsiga-
nondat Worcester. Lake Saltonstall
near New Havana was tied also, and
IN one year Harvard cast her lot with
other colleges at PoughkeepIe. Rae
ing at New London began In 1878,
and several times there have been
three crews on the river. Cornell
anne here in 1898 and beat both Yale
and Harvard, but since that time the
two oldest universities have rowed
only each other over fgour-mile
course
Yale's longest series Of, successive
victories, six in number was broken
by Harvard in 1906, and, while the
blue won in 1907, the Crimson has
heen TO the fore for the past three
Tears and with powerful collection
VI varsity, freshman and substitute
fours have swept the river ON every
occasion except the four-oared race
| In 1905.
The two varsity crews came tc
London this year after an unsuccess
full preliminary season. Yale had me-
Iefeat twice, once at Springfield by
pennsylvania, and again at Prince
IN by both Cornell and Princeton
while at Ithaca, Harvard was beater
by Cornell.
Until mes. recent practice. the
Thames bore a decidedly crimson hue
tor Harvard's boat load Of veterans
as looked upon as far superior Il
| the green material in the Yale shell
out the Improvement of the Yale crey
| ince the Princeton race has beel
larked, especially In recent practice
OF the eight men VINO pull tn
'rimson tipped blades this year, nv
,f them, Metcalf, Warrington, Strong
Newton and Cutler, were In the boa
hat beat Yale last year, while tw
,thers stratton and Goodale,. rowe
the victorious freshman crew.
| On the other hand, Capt Frost
I lae only Yale peteran Ia the Blu
smell The question is again presented
ghether light, but green crew, sue
ss Sits in the Yale sheal this yea
san outrow heavier and more e
erienced collection of oarsmen tns
ropel this years Harvard boat. IN
nee, no matter what the outcom'
win probably be full OF valuable le
sons for the followers OF aquatics {
each university,