Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
Statistics of Harvard
and Yale Varsity CreUs



the Junior. freshman and gentlemen
lights races taken by the Harvard
rewmen, now all that remains is the
arsity clash with Yale, which is
s.heduled to start at :45 o'clock this
afternoon over the historic Thames.
Harvard won the gentlemen's eight
yesterday. and this morning the fresh
men and junior eights swept past the
finish line. each quarter of a length
in front of the Yale bladesmen.
The Junior race was rowed in vivid
electrical storm and finished in down
pour of rain.
Long before the start of the fresh
man race, the banks of the Thames were
lined with gayly clad followers of the
Crimson and the Ellis. 1t was the first
Harvard Yale grapple on the Thames
since 1916, when Harvard took all three
races, the varsity lowering the record
for the down stream course.
Harvard in Front
Harvard blades got away slow in the
freshman eight cared event, and only
q scant quarter length separated them
at the end of the two mile race. Yale
took the water first, and jumped into
a slight lead, which Harvard soon cut
down by increasing her stroke.
At the one mile mark the teams were
on even terms and for the next quarter
mile it was a neck and neck battle. The
Harvard coxswain again increased the
stroke and at the one and three quarters
distance was slightly in the lead.
Yale spurted but was unable to cut
down that quarter length lead. The
official time was Harvard, 10 :36 30
Yale. 1O:37 Is.
Heavy Downpour
The junior race also went to the
Crimson. Just before the crews took the
water storm clouds were seen in the dis
tance. A beautiful electrical display
eeeeted the oarsmen as they took th'
wkser, which they hit together.
harvard again went to the from
early. At the mile distance the crews
were rowing strong. At this point thu
rain started to drop heavily and wher
within quarter mile of the finish it wal
q near deluge.
that slight lead but failed and th
Crimson again led the Ellis across th'
winning line.
The official time of the Junior varsity
!, eight race was
Harvard 10 40 As; Yale 10: Al 4-5
Crucial Race
Every Harvard Yale varsity race il
crucial struggle and the one this after
noon is more crucial than usual. Eacf
varsity now has won twenty five race:
since competition started on the water
This score is exclusive of the 1918 race
Today will mark the first four mil'
race since the war. Men of both col
leges have turned out in unusual mum
bers for the victory regatta. This Il
due in part to the long absence of tn
many Harvard and Yale men who hav,
benin service and are holding de
layed class reunions. ------'-----
A little bit of the eagerness TO com
to New London is due to something els
again. The regatta has always been
wet event, both ashore and afoat. Yal
and Harvard are hoping for something
to celebrate. In default Of that most O
the visitors are willing to adopt tn
) same course and call 1t drowning thei
sorrows"
Perhaps the most pathetic though
which intrudes itself into the situation
Is that the crews of the future will hav
hard work breaking training.
The formula will have flown. Blu
most of the visitors are faithful enoug
disciples of Omar not to heed tn
rumble of the distant drums.