New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-25
Yale Crews Beaten in Two
Preliminary Races on
Eve of Big Regatta.
CRIMSON VARSITY
NOW THE FAVORlIE
Early Crowd Smaller Than
Usual, but Harbor and River
Are Clicked with Yachts.
tBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

New London. Conn. June pa
Bathcd in the crimson glow Of dy-
ing sun. two Harvard crews rcwed
to victory over Yale on the Thames
this evening. and New London reflects
crimson tinge.
The effect on the varsity race to
uorrow was instant and the odds
turned so that Harvard will go to the
line favorite in all three races.
IL is not often that New London has
econ such a change of sentiment on the
4 very eve of the regatta, but Yale had
counted heavily on its freshmen four
I cared crew. and its decisive defeat by
the Harvard cubs in a mile race has
shaken the confidence of the Blue.
/ or all those in the Yale camp, some
| four miles above this lazy New Eng
/ land town, Guy Nickalls, the English
coach, is the only man who adheres
stoutheartedly to his prediction that
/ Yale will win tomorrow, and will win
by rowing Harvard into the ground
in the first three miles.
The honor Of drawing first blood IN
the regatta went TO the Harvard fresh
man four, which outrOwed Yale oy
three full lengths in mile. Then the
Harvard graduate eight regalneo
its lost laurels and conquered the Yale
graduates in half-mile race By a
margin Of two lengths.
The freshmen rowed upstream for .
mile. Harvard led from the drop Oh
the flag and drew away with every
stroke. The time of the winning four
was 6:2l. The Yale cubs crossed the
line in 6:31.
Jack Appleton, who just year ago
stroked the Blue TO its first victory
in seven years over Harvard, was with
the grads this time and was beaten.
Appleton rowed a plucky race, but his
crew faltered and the Crimson won
almost as it pleased. Harvard's time
for the half mile was 3:O5F2. Yale
was seven seconds slower.
There was little betting in evidence
on the races tomorrow in the lobbies
Of the hotels, but the odds were o
10 on Harvard for the varsity strug-
gle Some of the more enthusiastic Of
the Crimson followers were willing to
wager to 5 that Harvard would win
all three races.
New London seems to be taking the
regatta less seriously than usual.
.
of spectators which is expected to be
on hand tomorrow will not come to
town until Just in time for the races.
Where rooms have been scarce and
TO be had only at premium in years
gone by, they are plentiful tonight:
To be sure, the incoming trains did
disgorge goodly crowds, but not to COM
pare with the throngs that have poured
into the town on the day before" in
other years. .,
The automobile is blamed by hotel
keepers and townsmen alike for the
falling off in the size of the pre-regatta
crowds.
If the town is lacking in its GUS
tomary crush Of college boys and en-
thusiastic grads, the river presents a
picture that is even more striking than
usual. The harbor is choked with
yachts, and many have penetrated be-
yond the drawbridge, and have already
taken up their places along the course.
Among the larger of the yachts which
are already at their anchorages are the
Corsair, the Alacrity, the Resolute, the
Aphrodite, the Scout and the War
rior. Josephus Daniels, Secretary
of the Navy, will be on hand in the
Dolphin to see his first college boat
race.
The college rowing championship is
at stake in the varsity race, because
Harvard and Yale have each rowed
down all rivals, and will take their
marks under the railroad bridge to-
morrow afternoon without defeat to
stain their records. Both have de-
feated Cornell and the Crimson has
won from Annapolis, while the Blue
has defeated Columbia
Lund, stroke of the Crimson shell, is
an experienced oarsman and paced the
Harvard juniors 10 victory in the Hen
ley regatta last July when the Grim
son won worldwide rowing fame.
I The Yale crew is not nearly as we'll
together as the Harvard boatload. but
it has power TO waste. Guy Nickalls,
Yale's Oxonian coach, has been fear
: full lest his varsity develop too rapid
ly, and seems to have gone to the
other extreme. If anything the Yale
crew lacks just final bit of polishing
that would make 1t great crew. There
IS perceptible splash when the oars
go in and the crew does not fill the
eye as does the Harvard eight.
This will be the forty-ninth race be-
tween Harvard and Yale and each has
won twenty-four. The first race in
WHICH lHtHc lhO Olu IlNdlS bOOh par I
was rowed on Lake Winnipesaukee in
1852, and has been renewed almost an
/ nually each year since then. Harvard
/ has won seven of the last nine races.
/ There was little work for any OF the
/ crews to-day. W. II. Meikleham, Of
| Columbia, the referee, visited both
camps in the morning and spent some
/ time with each crew practising
starts.
/ In the afternoon the rival Fights
went out for a short paddle and re-
! turned in time to see the preliminary
races from their respective coaching
/ launches.
The two morning races will be rowed
+ downstream. from the navy yard to
the finish line at the railroad bridge
The junior varsity crews will 60 to
the line first and will be sent off at
/ 1915 o'clock. As soon as practicable
after the finish OF the junior race the
freshman shells will row over the
same course.
The varsity race, as last year, will
be rowed upstream, with the start at
the railroad bridge, and the finish in
Bartlett's Cove. The start will be
made at 1880 o'clock.