New Britain herald., 1919-06-21
HARVARD RESTED
 BY YALE VARSITY
Blue Oarsuen Are Victorious After Brilliant Struggle
VARSITY RACE-FOUR MILES.

One mile ..... 5:Oo 5:Oo One and a, half
 miles |:54 t:o4 Two miles .... 10:34 3-5 1O-35 25 Two and half
 miles 13-O0 l3:U6 Three miles :. 15:47 19-48 Three and
 half miles 1928 1-5 1929 Four miles .. 21:42 IS PLAY 2-5
 SUMMARY OF FINISH.
 Varsity Race-Four miles-F'irst, 21:47 2-5.
 Won by one and a half lengths
 New London, Conn, June 21.-Yale won the varsity race in the fifty-sec- ond regatta with Harvard on the Thames last evening. After having trailed for more than half of the four mile course the Ellis came through with splendid rally that quickly pulled them into the lead. Once in front they never were headed and they swept up to the finish line a. length and half in front of the Harvard eight.
 Yale's time, 21 minutes AZ Is sec onds, was 1 minute 40 1-2 seconds e. hind the record for the race down stream, set by the Harvard crew in 1916. The difference between the Blues performance yesterday and the course mark was equal to about thirty boat lengths. Harvard was caught in 21 minutes 47 2-5 seconds.
 Yale's victory put it on equal terms with the Crimson in the mat ter of successes in varsity races. since they inaugurated their meetings on Lake Winnepesa ukee, New Hamp- shire, in 1852. Each institution now has tWenty-six races to it's credit.
 Harvard's crews went out on the Thames with the cherished ambition to duplicate the remarkable feat of the eight og 1916 who swept the river. By noon that ambition had been transformed not merely into a strong threat but into direct menace. But in the cool of the evening 1t was baked in no uncertain fashion. Harvard needed only that varsity race to make good it's threat for in the morning, in two mile con- tests that developed truly homeric struggles, Harvard had won both the freshman and second varsity events
 Late Start for Varsity Race. The varsity race was marred by a
 
 cause of jockeying by Yale and then because the water became too rough for race. For a, time it was thought that the contest would have to be postponed until today. William Meikelham of New York and Colum- bia, the perennial referee of the re- gatta, went out time and again to look over the course and always came the disappointing news that he re- garded the river as being trif1e too rough for an even and interesting race. In this opinion he was not un- Rnimously supported.
 But at last at 7:51 D. m. to be exact, the crews were sent away. From the very start it developed into a race of 2 decade and v on the 1000 in the observation trains on both sides of the river and the 10000 or more on : craft in the river and at points of vantage on the banks forgot their chagrin over the repeated postpone rnents in their zest for a great contest and their eagerness over a struggle, the winner of which promised to be in doubt until last strokes had been pulled.
 Yale Eight the Better. SHarvard's varsity proved itself a was not equal to the smoother power. the better finish of the Yale eight Nor did Harvard's crew, in spite of it's having been coached by @ profes- sional, Bill Haines prove the equal of, Yale's in the matter of general M ship. And that too in spite of the @ Ellis having been taught by a faculty 8 coach, Prof. Mather Abbott of the # English department
 M It was a wonder race every foot of "a the four miles, but what a battle it & was in the last two miles, after Yale # had taken the lead. Harvard was first to catch the water, and for the third time yesterday one of Haines's x crews gained the lead right at the start It looked like anothet victory Tor Harvard, and even before the mile #had been reached considerable liar yard money came out of hiding. And Harvard stayed in front never lead ng by more than an eight of a length, but always leading just the same. Y Harvard Leads at Two Miles,
 kighth of a length as they passed the sigth of a length as they passed the havy yard, the two mile post Yale eemingly was having trouble holding
 Is own and there was many a suspi- Hon that the Ellis might be playing bossun. Del Leighton, the Harvard roke. was setting a great pace for Els men and he was setting it in a
 reat way too. He practically was billing his crew along.
 Then the crews dug into the second Il
 If of the gruelling contest All of
 sudden, without the slightest \ arning, Yale's crew began to shoot aaE1 Quick in raspOnSa yvorJ
 Do rallied and fo an eighth of a mile
 ley put up the hottest battle of the
 tire race, with Yale making it's bid
 the lead and the Crimson fighting
 ,nchly to retain that precious ad- fa of nf