Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-01
HARvARD-YALE BOAT RACE.
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waited half an hour for the wind to
subside and then sent the Varsity
Fights away from the moored punts
opposite Red Top as the Montville 80
whistles We're sounding. Ii was the
Crimson blades that caught the water
first and the first stroke showed the
power of the Harvard crew. A yard
was gained in that initial sweep of the
oars and from yards the lead was in
creased to more than length before
the half-mile flags were reached. The
Yale crew was rowing perfect form and
seemed perfection in rythm and water
lnanship, but the power was lacking.
Every stroke that the Harvard crew
rowed meant gain. and this contin-
ued down past the navy yard into the
spectator fleet lane and to the cheer
ing booming finish.
The crews met rough water between
the mile and two-mile flags and both
dropped the stroke 10 an even 30. Half
way down the course the Harvard
shell was so far in the lead that the
Yale coaches and crew managers stole
back from the bow of the launch and
sought the quiet warmth of the stand
en- men in the launch Elihu Yale only
two saw the heartbreaking finish.
After leaving the navy yard, Cox
swain Copp of the Yale crew called
for a little life and the stroke was
hit up to 80 and even IS for a few min
utes, but there was a perceptible
gain. In fact. the Harvard she'll was
so far ahead that it would have taken
an expert surveyor to figure out any
material change in their relative pc
sitions. Shouts from sea and shore
were few and far between: in fact.
many of the spectators said that II
seemed a shame to cheer crew that
was so far ahead while any encour-
agenent to the trailing Blue shell
would have been almost in the nature
of ridicule.
So the customary salutes were re-
served until the Harvard crew was al
most at the lines. Then the cannon
doomed, the whistles shrieked. the
crowds cfeered and the Harvard oars |
men padded over the line as If they |
had been out canoeing. while Cox |
swain sAbeles swung around in his seat
for a first and distant view of the Yale
shell Yale athletic experts like Walter
Camp shook their heads gloomily over
the result and said that Yale was sur
prisiagly inferior to the Cambridge
eight Yale rowed the race out and not
a mar wavered in his seat, although
the oars trailed in limp fingers.
The only consolation obtained
throughout the day was in the Fresh
man race. which started the sports. In
this race the crews were so close for a
mile and half of the two miles that
only these on the referees boat could
pick the leader. while those on the OBJ
servation trains and shore, because OF
poor range, gave Harvard the lead
fer three-auarters of the race. At the
half mile, mile and mile and a half,
the Freshmen eight, Yale's advantage
in each case was exactly one second.
In the home stretch the Blue young
sters pulled away and won by two
lengths.
The crews came down the river 10 the
start on time but when the Freshmen
Fights lined up for the signal at the draw
bridge for their two miles up river, the
wind was kicking up a nasty crop and
the Yale oarsmen asked and obtained an
hours postponement. When they were
again in position, the wind was still blow
ing down stream but it had subsidized to a
zephyr Harvard caught the water first
al the pistol and dug out quarter OF a
length lead before the Yale crew got into
action. The Crimson shell was kept in
the lead with the youngsters pulling we'll
mp TO 40. .
The half mile was reached with Har-
ward nearly one length ahead and the ad-
vantage was maintained until the mile had
been passed. There little Shepard the
Yale coxswain, CHANGING over the starboard
side at his rivals in the Crimson shell.
concluded that 1t was time for action. He
nodded to snowden, the stroke. who beat his
oar back and began hitting up the stroke
Foot by foot the Yale shell crawled on
The Crimson crew and at the one and a
half mile stake HaFvard's advantage had
been cut down to a few yards. On the
home stretch, with eannons booming whis-
ties blowing and loud cheering the Yale
shell passed Harvard and the crimson oars
men had shot their bolt, the blue crew
having no difficulty in emphasizing theil
victory by a lead of two lengths OF tbs
finish.
The Harvard oarsmen amidshps werl
well blown at the finish but Yale was il
splendid shape.
For Is minutes the air of the Thame
had distinctly blue tinge, but its colo
soon changed, for the Harvard tours brough
on The Crimson hue by jumping away fror
the Yale shell at the start and keepin
there with a constantly increasing lead un
Nh the finish Of Bartlett's cove was reach
I'D with four lengths between the she'll
From that tine the New London atsnos
Shsre reddsned continually to Harvard jel