The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-20
YALE IS TRIUMPHANT IN
CLASH WITH HARVARD
For First Time In Seven Long Years
Bulldog Oarsmen Defeat
Crimson.
DIFFERENCE OF 10 SECONDS
just an Eyelash Separates Two
Boats at Finish - Enthusiastic
Spectators Kept in Ignorance of
Result for Some Time.
by DAMON RUNYoN.

~" Lonuon, June l9.-ln what will
doubtless be described to you by your
favorite expert as back breaking
battle, Yale won the varsity oirht-o,r
race from Harvard here this afternoon.
Inc news of the victory leaked out
some time after the race was all over.
ior me true story of the blood curdlmg
contest is not the story of the race it
sell: but the story OF the lost finish.
we were present. the finish was lost
ana so We're quite Il lot OF experts and
some thousands of the most Influential
citlzenS of this country. who had pa
uently pursued sixteen naked young
gentlemen -four miles up q wet river
oHly 10 have the last act and the result
of the affair suppressed on them until
they got back i'll touch with news
1t will ever be one OF the most tragic
chapters in the history of aquatics. II
you Know nothing of boat races YOU
nVatlhE enthusiast or boating expert
when he finds that a boat race has
practlcally run away and hid from him.
terrible.
That. part of the race which took
place IN public was great, and while
n" confidence in stating that it MAS
very. close and very thrilling After
putting the various runors we have
little something for imagination we
should say that Yale won by the length
OF the bump OF accumulation on the
Moreover. the victory upset quite :,
lot of very pleasant Harvard traditions
as nothing o. the sort has occurred in
these parts for six years past. and fair
harvard had begun to-day quite au-
SplciouSly by winning the freshmen and
second varsity contests this morning.
IL IS true they started the second var
SHY before the experts or spectators
could reach the scene. but the finish did
not escape. as il did in the AFTERNOON.
In other years the varsity race has
hccn started ut a point up the river.
ana the crews have rowcd downstream.
which strikes one who does not. know
a great deal about boat racing as being
more IN accordance with the laws of
nature than the practice that was pur-
sued TODAY.
GREAT CROWD ON HAND
no WATCII RIVALS AT WORK
me start TINS afternoon was from a
ihat swings across the Thames. and il
was u merry ANA sanEuiuc party that
steamed out OF Now London on the oh
ScrNation train of the New York. New
raven and Hartford road. There were
about ten blocks of cars. each car heinz,
4 nat car when i'm it's normal condition.
but which is topped lay a canopy OF
canvas like an old prairie schooner for
ms occasion and equipped with slant
The cars that made M our caravan
We're loaded with thc very elite of So
cIety. j. Pi"rpOnt Morgan left his
g22chit, the Corsair., out in the middle
81 friends aboard a fiat car Howard
riliott chairman OF the board Of dircc-
tors of the New York. New Haven and
hartford, was present. but it served him
Just right. Mss Elcanora Sears Erac.d
our train, and all along the right of
way were DANES of great social promi-
hence
Then there were the cNperts-a limo
Oh r'hLsltting where they could get Il
toGd view of all that was guiui; on ana
H', KING notes about the matter.
hanging out over tho water on that
,!.'E our PARTY could almost cxpec-
,Hnratc into the TWO racing shells as
uncy came crawling down the river TO
the starting place. but, OF course no
on1 ~ mat DISTINGUISHED assemblage
looked moro like fence rails with a
collection of brawny young men astrad-
dic OF each rail and propclliur them
along with scrawnY paddles y blue
Wpoat ana red rowhOat were an
chorcd in the middle Of the stream I'M
ger ne bridge. some distance apart.
anu beyond them stretched a w:itcrL,
aisle lined by steam yachts and power
boats and great steamers and dingv
tnts; rs tn" shells lined M together
inc Yale bunch near the blue rowboat
an" INC Harvard crew near the rcd
n"dt-;t lonr-noScd yacht came creep
inE, out from under the bridge ana
pulled up behind them.
rms was August BvlmOnt'S boat. SO
Il man said. ana II carried The commit
Ice. Ecntlrman got out on the front
gan yelling at the oarSmcn. ana they
n"Sait 10 strip off their apparel. They
looked pretty naked when they urst
came up, but by the time they got
through shedding at the finish they
We're right down TO what seemed 10 he
bushes. although somebody said ii was
suuhurn.
Anyway. they tossed their shirts and
their H. V. DIS into the rowboatS and
thcn the gentleman on the front Of
August Hc!munts boat pulled a pistol
out of his pockets. and--zowic- they
We're off.
There was wild hurry of wells
aboard our train and Harvard and Nalc
accents all got mixed up together. so
II was hard TO tell them apart, and then
the engineer took ont after the racers
II" was AT slight DISADVANTAGE. as he
had 10 cut around and elbow in through
the scenery, but hn3lly he brought us
NJ even with the shells, only about ten
blocks away from them. and the cX-
ports began To discuss the matter.
Meantime the two shells had com
m"nccd To ease their way further over
toward the other side. and t, became
apparent that the race was moving
right out from under our party. steam
boats and launches ana distance began
10 obscure our view. and at a moment
when the shells were nose to nose and