The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-26
YALE CREW IS WINNER
over CRIMSON EIGHT
Sons Of Old Eli Emerge Victorious
Over Opponents BY Something
Like Eight Lengths.
SECOND BULLDOG CREW WINS
Yale Crew Takes Lead From Very
Start of Big Race and Gradually
Crawls Away From the Harvard
Oarsmeu.
BY Il. C. HILL

BY Il. c. HILL.
New London, Conn. June 25.--
fale's Varsity eight simply ran away
from Haryard's first crew this after
noon IN the annual regatta on the
fhames. Yale won SO easily that the
race lacked the heart stirring thrill
that thirty thousand persons had look
ed forward to. Yale's time for the
four miles was 20:52 Harvard's time
was 2l:13.
While she was al it. she made a
clean sweep, winning the second Var
sty eight race this morning in a
eontest which furnished the real ex-
element of the regatta, and leading
Harvard to the finish line in the
Freshman eight race which was rowed
this evening
The Yale second Varsity eight won
by three quarters of q length, cover
ing the two-mile course in ten min
utes and forty seconds. Harvard's
time was ten minutes and forty-three
seconds.
The Freshman race, postponed from
the morning because of Coach Nick
aifs objections to weather and water
conditions was not started until 7:i5
and the lads from New Haven after a
spirited struggle were yfctors by two
feli lengths,
The eight Varsity young giants driv-
ing Yale's shell merely enjoyed a
pleasant and not too exhausting four
mile practice spin. following at a
considerable distance by the plucky
but completely outclassed oarsmen of
Harvard.
II was a procession from starting
point TO finishing line, with Yale off
like streak. leading half length.
then length. then two lengths and
finally at the finish by eight lengths
There was never a moment from
the referees pistol cracked that the
result was in doubt. In the Yale shell
was such power and smoothness as
astonished veteran oarsmen. In The
Harvard shell there was courage and
SIN oethness. but the power was not
there. They tried hard. those brown
and brawuy lads from Cambridge.
They almost broke their backs and
their hearts, too. II may be. in squirt
after squirt but struggle as they would
and fight as they would, they could
not creep up a foot on the flying Yale
shell. The men of the blue did not
seem to be rowing to the limit of
their power and endurance. They
finished with lot of strength in re-
serve but their long. tremendous,
stroke that Guy Nickalls has been
two years in perfecting, despite the
criticisms and attacks of critics who
frowned upon his English innovations.
eat up the distance and made Har-
wards splendid effort utterly futile.
Seldom in recent years. at least,
has a crew demonstrated SO ern-
nhatically complete superiority over
arrival. And it was the opinion of
very capable observers that in the
form IL displayed today the Yale
eight is the best on top of water.
II should not he difficult for any
one 10 imagine the hilarious Joy of
the Yale alumni and undergraduates
when little McLane. the blue cox
swain, drove his men over the finish
line with seven lengths of open water
showing between the stern of the yale
Shell and the PROV of the Harvard
boat. II Is the plain truth that vic
tory 30 amazingly easy had not been
antictpated by the most enthusiastic
wearer of the blue. They remenr-
bered. the tremendous struggle here
n year ago. when Yale by a heart
beat the fractian ala secnnd- 7fters
gig rag duel that endured every foot
OF four long miles. They expected a
repetition OF that wonderful struggle.
Not man OF them dreamed that
Coach Nickaiis had duplicated crew
that could beat Harvard's men by
eight lengths
For Harvard's hopeful thousands
the outcome was a shocking surprise.
The sting OF last years defeat had
lasted through succession of VIC
tories, on the football and baseball
fields. They had counted so earnestly
on putting Yale in her place and re-
trieving the disaster of 1914 For
them the sharp crack of Referee
Netherlands pistol and the instant
response of Sirens, steam whistles.
saIuting cannon and the wild shouts
of Yale rooters was dismay and dc
pressing chorus
Faces that had shown all dav with
the anticipation Of triumph lengthen-
ed amazingly. for them only ono COM
ISOLATION remained. that the Harvard
slant ceased trying, and at the very
end hurled their shell over the line
with as much grit and effort as ir RS
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