The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-16
SPECIAL TRAINS ID TAKE LOCALS
 TO BOAT RACE
Announcement of New Sched- ule Made For Big DOings on the Thames River Friday.

A ENCOURAGEMENT was made "A today by the local officials of A IA the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company that a special train will be run to New Lon don from this city for the Yale-Har- ward boat races a week from today. In addition to the regular tralns run ming between New York and New London and touching off here, there will be a race special leave the I:ridgeport station at 12:15 on the afternoon of June 20. Trains will leave for Bridgeport immediately after the observation train gets back to the New London station.
 The Thames River four-mile course has been fIagged for the regatta of next week, and the Yale and Harvard crews will make their final spin with the coaxswains~ aiming to dodge the eel-grass, and with the shadows ln- dicated by the lines of red, white and blue sreamers. Special care has been taken by the engineers who laid out the lanes for the crews to cut out the spots near the Navy Yard where former crews have gone to defeat because of their lack of knowledge of the treacherous river weeds. The
 
 slightly strengthened.
 Another handicap in the course
 has been discovered in the fact
 that the new bridge over the
 Thames has been built just inside
 the finish of the four-mile dis
 tance Attempts have been made
 to start further up the river, but
 the fact that the start is made
 close to the bank will prevent
 moving the course far up stream
 so the finish line will be under
 the bridge.
 Harvard's varsity is clearly on the defensive because of it's failure to equal or to approach the 21 minutes 32 seconds made by Yale in it's up- stream row on Saturday night. The final try of the Crimson eight over the four miles will be a desperate eff fort to equal these figures, which are about the same as 20 minutes 30 sec ends down stream.
 It is doubtful whether Yale will try to better her figures during her stay here. Thes final four-mile spin of both varsity eights is set for next Satur day evening, but Yale coaches feel that they have found the speed limit of the varsity crew and will remain content in the assurances that it is the equal of most or Yale's former eights.
 Indications are that Yale will pad dle to the starting line June 20 a 5 to favorite in the chief race of the day.
 Harvard was backing its second varsity eight heavily till the injury to Batchfielder, which has caused a late shift in the shell. Yale meantime has ni hIy e n stal1ation of Captain Schreiber from stroke No. ? and the installation of Barlow Heminway at stroke.
 Harvard's freshman eight has
 a slight edge over the Yale 1922
 octette and is regarded by Coach
 Haines as one of the most prom . ising crews he ever coached. Yale
 has an excellent freshman com bination. and the class race promises to prove one of the
 most stubbornly contested of any on the programme
 Harvard rooters are giving slight odds on this event.
 Conferences between the mana ge- ments establish the fact that the freshman eight event which opens the programme, will be started close to 10:30 o'clock on Friday morning, June 20, and that the second varsity eight event will be rowed about an hour later.
 Indications are that the varsity eight event will be started |. about 5:3O o'clock. This will be rowed downstream over the four mile course.
 It was announced today that Will liam H. Meikleham, of New York City, would referee all the events. He has officiated at more Yale Harvard and Yale-Princeton races than any other rowing official in the world.