New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Blue Pulling Away at Finish
With Speed to Spare, With
Record Breaking Crowd
c h e eering Grew On
Crimson Takes Two Races
BOYS Just Back From War
as Full of Enthusiasm as
Before They Went Away
By Haywood Broun

NEW LONDON, Conn., June ZU.-
Yale won the big race by length and
a half. The crew was even better than
that, for though Harvard made cour-
ageous fight and kept the contest close
there was no doubt of the superiority
of the Blue at the end. They were
drawing away easily in the last half
mile.
Both crews had good form, but Yale
was able to carry it over four-mile
journey, while Harvard began to dis
integrate after thrilling squirt at the
three-mile mark. The strategy Of Car
son, the Yale coxswain, had not lit
tie to do with this. He did not call
upon his crew to answer the Harvard
spurt, but let the Crimson she'll creep
up from a length behind to disad-
| vantage of only three-fourths Of a
length. Then he made his move and
in short stretch Harvard had dropped
behind again to the old distance. The
Yale crew rowed a higher stroke than
Harvard by beat or two almost dur
ing the entire journey, SO there can
be no question Of their stamina.
The Yale victory marked triumph
for the amateur coaching system.
Mather Abbott, the Yale coach, is a
professor of English at Yale. William
Haines, of Harvard, is famous Eng
lish pro.
Not Afraid of the Dark
Yale had to beat not only Harvard
but the sun as we'll, for it was almost
dusk when the big race began. This
was a Yale crew which was not afraid
to row home in the dark.
Harvard won both the freshman and
the second varsity race in the morn
ing, but this never makes up for the
loss of the big race. Moreover, the
freshman race was captured by feet
and the second varsity eight by 49,
This combined Harvard advantage of
% feet was swept away by the Yale
victory in the afternoon.
Harvard looked like a winner in the
first mile and held her own in the
second, but when Yale took the lead
she was not to be denied. Harvard
could only fight to hold on after she
lost the lead. The Blue boat was
never headed.
Yale's time for the course was 81
minutes AZ 1-5 seconds. Harvard went
over the course in 81 minute Al 90
seconds This is slow time IT is |
minute 40 1-5 second behind the rec
ord, or, if it :oe expressed in lengths,
from twenty-five to thirty. Conditions
were not altogether favorable, for
there was a slight head wind and the
water was rough in patches.
Day of Many Thrills
Though none of the crews rowed in
particularly fast time there has seldom
been a regatta which provided so many
thrills. Both morning contests were
thrillers and the big race of the after
noon was a fine battle up to the last
half mile. All the color and noise of a
big crowd Of brave men and fair
women was revived. The noise, of
course, was made by the brave men,
while the fair women contributed the
Men who had fought in France and seen
of getting just as excited as ever over
the progress Of the little spider boats
up and down the Thames.
The morning crowd was slim, but
there was a fine turnout for the big
race. Old William Hanna, who used to
watch some Of the daddies of the boys
who were in the boats to-day, said it
was the biggest crowd of the last
thirty years. Or perhaps Bill said fifty
His is one of those memories which
goes back long way At any rate
it was a big crowd. The thirty-four
cars on the New Haven side were filled
to the last row and the moving bleach
ers of the Central Vermont across the
way held just as many. Boats of all
descriptions lined the four-mle course
Seaplane Hovers Above
There was seaplane to 60 above it
and a German submarine, the U111,
which nsfght have gone under it. In
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