Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-23
Winners of Precious Races
BetlUeen HdrUdrd-Y Yale CreL0S

NEW LONDON, Conn, June 23.--Har-
ward won both races from Yale this morn
ing by one length. The freshman crews
raced first and Harvard won in 9:36 S-5,
Yales time was 9:39. The second eights
were not rowed until noon. Harvard lead
ing all the way.
The weather could not have been better
for the races as the day was perfect, and
the north wind which blew down the course
was with the tide and did not kick up dis
turbance. The freshman race was Towed
first on the lower two miles of the four-mile
course Yale got the jump at the start by
half length, rowing 40 strokes to Har-
wards AZ Both crews gradually settled
down. Yale to 32 and Harvard to 80 strokes
to the minute. At the half-mile mark Yale
was splashing badly, but seemed three
quarters of a length in the lead. The mile
mark found Yale leading by length over
Harvard a crew that was well together
and rowing an easy 80 and holding its own.
Gradually form began to count, ana as Har-
ward moved up Yale raised 1t stroke, but
could not maintain its lead, the higher peat
causing the men to splash badly,
In the last mile of the race the sweils
from yachts coming through the draw
bridge interfered with the work of each
crew, their outriggers dipping into the
swels at every few strokes. NeVertheiess'
Harvard held its form better and had
quarter of a length of Yale's lead out or
the way without raising llS StIOhS WicH
it hit the last half mile. Rapidly Har-
wards shell came up with Yale, while the
latter raising its stroke, went badly, as
the men were not together and the rough
water was less to their liking than TO
Harvard'S,
A quarter of Il mile from home Harvard
caught Yale and then raised It's stroke TO
80, gaining with each beat as the frantic
Yale cubs sought to beat them out with
"a stroke. But it was all to no avail, for
Harvards trimmer boat rushed over the
line with open water between the shells,
Rough Course
The two second eights were lined up at
the two-mile mark of the four-mile course
when the observation train came back for
the start of this race, but Referee Meikle-
ham, of Columbia. decided that the lower
course was too rough, so sent the two
crews rowing two miles upstream to the
start of the four-niie course, There were
no stakeboats here and lot of precious
time was lost in an effort to get the two
crews lined up even for the start.
The pistol which began the race was
fired at noon and the Harvard second crew,
rowing AZ strokes TO the minute got the
Jump on Yale, rowing 40. Haryards initial
lead of quarter of length was all 1t
could get the first mile of the night as
Yae's heavy eight struggled through its
stroke like the Stanford crew of last year
at Poughkeepsie and seemed to have the
power TO make a fight out Of Il. Both
crews were rowing a 32 stroke after the
start and held this clip for the first miler
Harvard holding it's lead of one-fouTth
length,
After passing the mile mark, Yale sought to
take the lead and made squirt after spurt, but
Brown, HaryaFd's stroke, knew his business
for each time Yale raised its stroke he re-
sponded with a higher beat for Harvard,
For quarter mile Yale stroye desperately