The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-24
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Retired Amateur Champion q
sweeps and SOULS.


Retired Amateur Champion AZ
sweeps and sculls.
New LONDON. Conn. June 23.-Har-
Yards varsity eight defeated Yale In
easy fashion to-day by six lengths, lead
Ing all the way from tho first half mile
ard breaking the record which was made
by Yale In 1888 of 90 minute 10 sec
onds. Harvard's time to-day was 20
minutes Q seconds. Harvard won the
second varsity by two lengths and tri-
unphed over the Yale freshmen by a
.ength. Ia all three races Harvard
outrowed Yale as far as skill and speed
ere concerned.
Yale fooled Harvard on the start Of the
varsity race. h got away from the
mark faster than she ever did in prac-
tice. Both crews were rowing forty a
minute. In the second minutes time
Yaio had fifteen feet on Harvard. IIar-
ward heightened out her stroke and
dropped II to thirty<two. Yale kept 1t
up to thirty-four a minute. Al the first
quarter Yale vas leading by half a
lyngth. Then the Crimson eight began
t. crawl up Oh Yale stroke by stroke. and
~ they passed the half mile mark in
. minutes and 80 seconds Harvard nosed
Yale out BY a few feet. Harvard was
owing t%hirty-one strokes and Yale
thirty-two.
Yale was splashing badly. n heavy
body swing fore and aft was pounding
her frail shell along the water. On the
other hand. Harvard did not have such
a long body swing and the how OF her
shell was climbing out of the water az
every stroke. At the three-quarter post
both crews were owing stroke for
stroke, thirty-two a minute Harvard
Increased her lead to fifteen feet. slowly
but surely going away from Yale.
WRterma nship superior.
At the mile mark Harvard a a lead
If three-quarters of n length. The time
was : minutes. Both crews now We're
rowing tw%enty-nine a minute. Harvard's
workmanship was far superior to Yale's.
as some OF Yale's men were washing out
badly. At the mile and a quarter post
Yale began to squirt and came up on
Harvard n few feet. Stroke c. G. Lund
answered the squirt and Yale began to
drop back again.
As they reached the mile and n half
l'FNE an WhF W tAAlhN
and IS seconds. there was open water
seen between the two shells. Yale was
rowing thirty-three and Harvard thirty
strokes a minute. Yale's crew began to
tire II lowered It's stroke 10 twenty
eight a mute. As soon as Harvard
saw this 1t lowered Its stroke. being sat
isfed with a safe lead Of a length. The
Harvard men knew they could outsprlnt
Yale II they were called upon In Il pinch.
Th.. Na. all naAS xaA.A .ntNA - I A
minutes. IS seconds. Harvard was lead
inC by a length I'D Il half Of open
water. AT this point Yale's varsity
shell. which was steered by T. q. Lasher.
ran over the flag post. which retarded
it's speed considerably. but as II was
practically out OF the race It did not
make much difference.
Al this point Yale's crew was badly
lone up physically. The men We're not
swinging together. The terrible strain
on the abdominal muscles which is used
20 much in this new English modified
stroke was taking tn. life out OF the
crew. Yale had lowered its stroke 10
twenty-seven "A minute. Harvard was
rowing thirty. with the men we'll within
themselves and going away from the
BLU foot by foot.
Cant Gain an Inch.
A. the two and a half mile post was
reached IN l4:5S Harvard had four
lengths on Yale. which could not gair
an inch. Harvard passed the three mile
mark in !, 30. with Yale Ave lengths
in the rear. No. . and No. I in Yale's
shell were swinging badly. Yale's crew
was splashing badly. The men were Sc
exhausted they could not raise their oars
out at the finish of a stroke.
A. they pnssad the ,hraa and a han.
mile post Harvard was leading by five
and "A half lengths. Yale's crew was
going to pieces rapidly. HarvardS mrr
We're rowing very clearly. but looked
quite fatiEued trying 10 ge, a bigger
leai on Yale. In other words, the,
wcntcd to beat Yale as far as they could
They crossed the line at least six lengths
in advance of Old Eli, which was done
up very bad physically, especially .
n :.
Great credit should he given to Rober;
+. Herrick, head coach. and his vel
known assistant, William Haines, the old
professional sculler. who has rugged the
boat and taught the men the fine points
Of workmanship, This is the first var
sity race Harvard has won in two years
and considering the beautiful style In
which II won no excuse should be given
for Yale's defeat.
As the freshman crews went 10 IN,
starting line M $40 at the navy yard
which Is the W mile mark from ths
bridge, there Was "A sharp north breez.
blowing down the river. with n good cbl
tide to assist them. Water conditions
were very gori for the first mile. A
the crack OF the gun Yale's freshmen
got the water FIRST. putting in twenty,
two strokes for the arr, half minute
John l~larvard'S youngsters getting II
nineteen. Immediately Yale went to ~,
front. hut splashing considerably, Will.
Statistics of Harvard
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