Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-30
HARVARO-YfALE
 RACE TODAY
Classic Rowing Races Over Thames River Course Be-
 gin This Morning
 Continue All Day
CRIMSON TO DEFEND TITLE

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 NEW LONDON, Conn. June 2e.-l The Harvard-Yale rowing races, those classics of college sports, are to bel contested again tomorrow. over the Thames river course. which has been inc scene of alternating triumphs or the Crimson and the Blue for many years past. The program of tomor- rows races is as follows:
 Freshman Eight-Oared Race. start about lO.3g a. m. Distance, two miles. beginning at the railroad draw bridge and finishing two miles up| stream opposite fhe navy yaed Pcs ent record for upstream coues7 liar ward Freshmen crew Of 1301. te minutes. 3S 1-2 seconds; record for down stream course. Harvara Fresh men or 1899, in minutes. 35 seconds.
 Varsity Fours: Start at conclusion of Freshmen race. Distance, two miles, beginning at nay yard and fln- ishinr two niles ur -he liver. of t5e Harvard quarters at Red Tcp. Present record: Yale crew of 1908, Tn 10 min utes. 33 1-2 seconds.
 A about , D. m. Distance, four miles. down stream, starting or Harvard quarters at Red Top and finishing at railroad drawbridge. Present Yale Harvard Thames TefoT9 held by Tale crew of 1888. % miDu=es and 10 sec- ends over downstream course. Yale crew of 1907 also ESlls the uD stream record. in the sane time, % minutes and 10 seconds.
 Harvard and Yaie rowing antedates aU other intercollegiate sport Back in 1852 two crews in crude boats pull ed over a two mile course on Lake Winnipesaukee, and Harvard won. Since that initial event. Jhe two uni versailles have met 43 tines in various places and at various distances. with Harvrd winning majority Of the carly races and Yale proving faster in later years. until today the recorl stands: Yale 23, Harvard q.
 From Lake Winnipesaukee the scene shifted to the Connecticut river at Springfield: then 10 Lake Quinsiga- mond at Worcester Lake Saltonstall, near New Haven. was tried also. and in one year Harvard cast her lot with other colleges at Poughkeepsie. Racing at New London began in 1878, and sev- eral times thers have been three crews on the river. Cornell came here in 1898 and beat both Yale and Har- ward. but since that time the two old est universities have rowed only each other over a four-miie course.
 Yale's longest series of successive victorie, six in number, WSs broken by Harvard in 1906. and, while the Blue won in 1907. the Crimson Las been to the fore for the past three years and with a powerful collection of varsity, freshman and substitute fours have swept the river on every occasion except the four-oared race in 1908.
 The two varsity crews came to New London this year after an uusuccess- ful preliminary season. Yale has met defeat twice. once at Springfield by| Pennsylvania, and again at Princeton by both Cornell and Princeton, while at Ithaca Harvard was beaten by Cor nell.
 Until most recent practice, the Thames bore a decidedly Crimson hue, for Harvard's boat load Of yeteT- ans was looked upon as far superior to the green material in the Yale shell. But the improvement of the I ale crew since the Princeton race has been marked, especially in recent practice.
 Of the eight men who pulled the crimson tipped blades this year, five of them, Metcalf. Wilmington, Strons. Newton and Cutler. were in the beat that beat Yale last year. while twoI others, Stratton and Goodale,, rowed in the victorious freshman crew.
 On the other hand. Capt. Frost ssl the only Yale veteran in the Blue shell.
 The old question is again presented whether a light. but green crew. such as sits in the Yale shell this year, san outrow a heavier and more experience ed collection of oarsmen tha. propel this years Harvard boat The race no matter what the outcome. will probably be fuil Of valuable lessons for the followers Of aquatios Of each university.
 Old oarsmen, followers of rowing, and thousands Of enthusiasts made this old port a rowing mecca today In the hotels and restaurants and along the river. the speed, endurance and rowing knowledge Of the crews monop0lized discussions.
 Betting was somewhat Hyoiier thlu for several years, with Harvard a TO to favorite for the varsity. Vale was a 5 to shot for the freshman and about even money in the four-oaT- ed race