Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-24

The Crimson yeariings. coached this
season by DIR. r. Heber Howe have
shown unusual power that augurs
we'll for the varsity next year. The
eight was selected early in the sea-
son and has been held together. with
only one or two changes, since
shortly after the spring recess. But
conditions in the varsity and second
varsity shells have been more unset
tied.
Harvard men pin their hopes main
ly onsthe fact that Coach Haines is a
careful conditioner of oarsmen and
SLOW starter" his crews invariably
showing marked results Of the last
few weeks of training, aimed to bring
them to peak" a day or two be-
fore this race. On May Z, Harvard
was six lengths behind the second
place Navy crew that was defeated
by Princeton and on May 2S trailed
Cornell by four lengths over mile
and seven eighths' course on the
Charles River. In 1920. the early
season showing Of the Crimson was
just as dismal, but it was a powerful
crew that the diminutiye stroke. Jen-
ney, led to victory on the Thames.
Illness has kept Jenney from row.
ing this spring and development of a
stroke oar has been one of the main
worries at Cambridge.
Yale men have not forgotten the
defeats earlier in the season but new
ertheless, in numerous pre-race dis
cusSions tonight recalled previous
seasons when the Ellis entered the
Thames classic with the dope"
strongly against them and emerged
victorious. The training Of Captain
Hord's eight this spring has indicat-
ed that care was being taken to guard
against too rapid development
Wearers Of the Blue are confident
that tomorrow's Yale eight will be a
much different combination from that
outrowed by Princeton and Cornell
at Ithaca a few weeks ago.
Tickets for the observation trains,
always at premium, have been more
scarce this year than ever because of
the curtailed length of the trains
Graduates. on ordering tickets, were
requested to secure pasteboards for
personal use only and as a result, the
crowds on the trains will be almost
purely academic.
The Harvard Yale regatta dates
back to 1852 when the Crimson was
victorious over a two-mile course on
Lake Winnepesaukee, NJ H. That
contest was in reality an interclass
AFFAIR, Harvard's class of 1853 de-
feating the Yale eight in a two mile
row in barges. Three years later. on
the Connecticut River near Spring.
held, Mass, Harvard's eight cared
and four-oared barges defeated two
Yale six-oared boats. In 1859, two
shells and two barges represented the
universities. informally, in three
mile race on Lake Quinsigamond, and
Harvard won. but the next day. Yale
reversed the decision in the feature
event of the "Citizen's Regatta. "
the next summer, the crews raced
over the same course, Harvard win
ming. The war then suspended COL
lege sport until 1864 when they met
again, continuing the races at Wor-
cester until 1870.
Then the colleges entered the
Rowing Association of American
colleges" and the dual regattas were
suspended until 1876 when resumed
at the four-mile distance at Spring
neld. TWO years later, the course
was shifted to New London and the
regattas have been held here annual
~ with one or two exceptions, since
that time.
Since the distance of the interco,-
lesiate championship race at Pough-
keepsle was shortened to three miles
the Harvard Yale contest has been
the only four-mile rowing event held
annually in America.