The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
YALE CROWD GOES WILD OVER ITS CREW

topslde Ia becoming bottomsde In all
sorts OF sports. there was really no reason
for the sons or Eli TO give UP. Moreover,
IL IL n tradition UP here that neither OF
the universities can triumph more than
six tines in succession. Yale won from
1900 to 1905. inclusive and lost to Har-
ward. won again. and then Harvard took
the race six straight times. This year 1t
was Yales turn to uphold the tradition.
The victory OF Yale In the varsity eight
cared race was all tho moro unexpected
because of HarNard's successes this morn
ing In the second varsity eight and In the
freshman eight races. The Harvard crews
won both without great effort. the Har-
ward second varsity eight defeating the
Yale second varsity eight by 2s seconds
and the Harvard freshmen winning by IL
seconds The ofricisl time for these races
was.
Second varsity Fights Harvard. II ;3<;
Yale, IL :O2.
Freshman Fights Harvard. II :p Yale,
1901.
Harvard Celebrates TOO Soon.
As you strolled about New London to-
day before the race observing thousands
OF visitors who cheered and sang Joyous
way from hotel to hotel. YOU got the
notion, somehow. that maybe Harvard was
celebrating n little to prsmatureiy. No
matter what the wiseacres on rowing were
saying, Harvard rooters were tremen-
dously predominant
There must have been ten men and girls
who sported the Crimson TO one who
bore the Blue and the Harvard sympa-
thizers were so very coeky about II all.
They had a way with them which so
much az said, Dear old Yale, what would
We do without herr
The betting men were flashing their
cash In the Hobbies OF the Mohlcan Hotel
and tn. Crocker House In New London
ard over in the Griswold on Eastern
Point across the Thames. Offering to
and even TO that Harvard would win.
Yale men and Yale girls had to take
lot OF Joking before their turn came, but
when IL came, as the song says. Harvard.
good night
Everything was Jolly but the weather
which was more suited TO football than
10 marine sports. II was dark, dismal
morning. With a constant drlbble-drizzle
OF rain, a fine misty rain that soaked you
before you knew II. Many a girl was
glad enough to veil the glorles OF her sum
mer gown with an old fashioned yellow
sllcker Toward afternoon the rain
ceased. but a chill wind came sweeping
from the southeast The morning races
were rowed In rain but the big race
was held under more agreeable conditions
There was little sunshine in the slaty
sky. but It was always easy to keep your
eye on the fighting crews.
The annual race is always more or less
OF New England entertainment Boston
sends Its thousands. and there Is hardly a
town and city OF Massachusetts and Con-
necticut that isn't we'll represented. But
there were many celebrities here from
New York. Among the yachts in the river
were the Corsair with J. Pierpont Nor
gan. his son. Junius Spencer Morgan, and
young Mr.. Morgan's hancee, Miss Con-
verse of Boston; the Viking, with George
=. Baker. Jr. and a party Of friends; tho
Tarantula, with W. X. Vanderbilt. Jr. (:
the 1tuna. with William d. Dinsmors
the Enchantress, the Coleman Duponts'
big power boat the Idler. owned by
Henry ID. Sloan the Theima, with Morton
+. Plant and his bride aboard the Kehtoh.
with Roswell Eldridge the Radium, Cliff
ford B. Hendrix's schooner :'acht. and
the Vagrant. Harold s. Vanderbilt's yacht.
Yachts Make Brilliant Picture.
Even on dull day. these splendid
boats, trimmed from stem to stern with
signal flags and gay colors. made a brave
showing Their tenders and power boats
we're Tipping constantly from ship to
shore The number of big and little pleas
urs boats was past counting. They ex-
tended for four miles northward in the
Thames from the drawbridLe, the starting
point OF the race, to the finish line. oppo-
site the Harvard quarters at Red Top.
They made lane through which the
varsity shells flashed In their grllling
contest
over in the Griswold on Eastern Point
the Harvard men were supremely conf
dent +. Meredith Blagden. who was the
coxswain of a victorious Harvard crew
long before fate made him foreman OF the
second Becker jury. was telling his friends
that Harvard couldn't lose Winston
Churchill. the novelist. who had motored
down from Windsor. VT, had q crimson
tinss TO his predictions. There too one
saw William w. Wood. head of thu
wooilen trust John Shllito of Cincinnati
Thomas f. Bourke of Kansas City. who
had come all the way from Missouri IN
his automobile TO see tho big race Mr..
and Mrs. August Belmont. r. s. Coolidge
Of Boston. George +. Plimpton. Carr A.
de Gersdorf and many more. All of the
hotels were so Jammed that meal times
were a scramble.
By =. NJ. the thousands were getting
ready for the varsity race. Three steam
ers. the Adirondack. the Richard Peck and
the Chester W. Chaplin. were taking on
immense numbers OF sightseers. The Adj
rondack carried nearly 1000 and the other
big boats were nearly as well patronized
At the starting point and at the finishing
limo great crowds were gathered on both
sides OF the racers. The observation trains
. each train OF thirty fiat cars banked
with tiers OF seats and accommodating
pretty close TO $500 persons each-were
waiting for the signal that traffic on the
New Haven road and on the Central OF
Vermont had been suspended for tho race
At the New London depot. where the
crowd was thronging, there were gay
scenes. Bands of negroes thrummed
banjos and twanged guitars syncopatine
merrily In songs that described the perl
OF chickens that wandered too closely &c
the colored brother Nerders OF red and
blue feathers were doing an enormou,
business, for II was the thing to stick 9
feather in your cap or hat. You saw per