The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-22
HARVARD ALL The
WAY FROM START
TO FINISH
Yale 0arsmen Beaten BY Six
Lengths at New London
FIVE VICTORIES IN A ROW
Crews From Cambridge Also Won in
the Freshmen and Four
Dared Events

New London, Conn, June 22-FoT
the fifth successive year, Harvard
demonstrated her rowing superiority
over Yale yesterday by winning not
only the varsity race with six
lengths to spare, but capturing the
freshman event by length, and the
four cared contest by ten lengths.
There was never a doubt of the
varsity race in the afternoon and
there was 20l9 seconds in time be
tween the boats at the finish. The
official time of the three races fol
lows:
University race, four miles-Har-
ward, 21.43is; Yale 22.O4.
Freshmen race two miles-Har
ward 1852; Yale, 10541s.
University tours, two miles-Har
ward 1124; Yale, l1.05.
There were many interesting in
cidents coming from Haryard's vic
tory yesterday It brought the long
series of aquatic contests with Yale
10 a tie for the first time since 1902
as both universities have now won
% contests with the oars. Five sue.
cessive Harvard victories over Yale
have not been achieved by the Grim
son since 1870. The result Of the
varsity race also means that two
classes have now graduated from
Yale without ever having been col
lege mates with a winning crew
Except. perhaps, for the first few
strokes, there was never moment
on the Thames yesterday that Har
ward was not master Of the situation
The freshmen led after the first lOC
yards. the fours practically from the
start, and the varsity from the first
ten Yards. The freshmen race was
the best contest OF the three but
there were times in the varsity race
when II seemed as If Yale was over
hauling the flying crimson shell, and
that bulldog tenacity encouraged by
the cheers from two observation
trains. would bring the race TO some
thing better than the professions
which have marked the great con
tests between the two universities
during the past four years. But there
was always a corresponding rebound
By the crimson oarsmen, and the
hllflongth advantage at the hall
mile was steadily increased with the
passage of each distance flag.
The two races of the morning es
pecially the freshman event furnish
ed plenty of sport for the early com
ers In the freshman contest Yale
chung tenaciously TO the Harvard
shell after the half mile had been
passed. Although there was open
water az the mile. the zap was clos
ed up slightly and in the last 81
yards a Yale squirt brought the bow
OF the Yale shell nearly even Will
the Harvard coXswain
The fouroared race was all Har
ward. The first five strokes sent the
crimson boat to the front, and from
that time IL was only question Of
how decisive would be the Harvard
victory. There was plenty of discus
sion after the race over the merits
Of the stroke which Mr. Cook brought
over from England this year in the
hope of regainlng Yale's aquatic su
premacy. Harvard is apparently
satisfied with their professional coacl
jim Wray OF Australia The specta
tors We're fully as numerous, the
feet was as grandly picturesque anC
the undergraduate enthusiasm as hi
larious this year as ever. while New
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rowing weather