The Washington herald., 1922-06-24
YALE SURPRISES BY.
BEATINCCRIMSONIN
ANNUAL CREW RACE
Blue Varsity Wins by
Lengths, After Fresh,
men and Juniors Lose.

NEW LONDON. Conn. June "a
Yale beat Harvard on the Thames at
their annual crew race today. They
did more than win boat race. the
men Of the Yale crew did. They took
disgrace by the scruff Of the neck and
hammered 1t into glory.
Previous to this afternoon the Yale
crew Of this year was one 10 make
experts laugh or swear. according 20
whether they were Yale men or not.
1t was a joke eight. They had lost
the services of their captain. Lang
horne Gibson. son Of Charles Dana
Gibson and nephew Of Lady Astor. A
little more than a month ago they ut
teriy changed their style of rowing.
adopting radically new method.
They were on the short end of the
odds in the betting before the race.
and would have been on the short end
against most any crew better than a
high school outfit Dissension, hard
luck and plain, ordinary bad water
manship had given them a poor rec
ord and a worse name.
Yale Accomplishes lmpossibIe.
The eight men of that crew rowed
to the stake boat In the late clear
sunshine OF today and bent their backs
to the job of proving that they could
accomplish the impossible.
Prove II they did. Rowing smooth
and strong. they picked up a length
on Harvard in the first mile. The
wiseacres on the observation trains
and yachts shook their heads and de-
clared that Yale had shot her bolt.
But the eight desperate men in the
Yale shell drew deep on the reser-
voirs of their wills for that stun Of
courage that on occasion overcomes
even lack OF form and muscular pow
er. Harvard challenged again and
again. but irrespective Of ability or
power. Yale was out to win. The
boys with the B'ue-bladed oars met
spurt with squirt. and added open
water to their lead each time they
were threatened.
Gliding by the flags that marked
the beginning of the fourth crucial
mile. they were a good three lengths
to the good. The experts said they
could not keep II up. They pointed
out grievous faults in the Yale style.
They assured all who would listen
that the eight men from New Haven
must crack before they drove their
slipper Of FURNISHED wood over the
line.
Yale Lengths Ahead.
But the eight men from New
Huuan uyhn orcnrdfn1 tn the
perts. could not row, were too busy
winning a boat race to hear what
the experts were saying. On over
the smooth water they fought
their way between the rows OF
shining gold and white yachts that
lined the course and the lead they
had held.
Perhaps they did not do IL ac-
cording to rowing Hoyle. but they
did II.
They drove their boat across the
line that marked the end of their
effort and victory. better than
three lengths ahead of the Har-
ward crew, and 10000 people on
jolting observation trains, bobbing
yachts and rocky shore went mad
with acclaim of the painting boys
who had pitted human courage
against mathematical dope and
won.
To make it complete the boys
from Yale did their stuff against
the disbursement of a morning
that looked like the beginning of
a Harvard day.
The Yale freshman shell shipped
water in the second mile. crumpled
and sank. The Yale Junior eight
was beaten a blue mile in the sec
ond of the preliminary events. But
II was the day for the hitherto
hapless Yale varsity to show what
II had and the exhibition was one
to make lovers of athletic courage
rise on their hind legs and howl.
IL was the fifty-fifth race be-
tween the two universities. Prev
iously each had won twenty-seven
victories. When the last rays Of
the sun died from the waters OF
the Thames Yale had twenty eight
victories to her credit.
Yale's time for the four miles
was 21:53. Harvard covered the
course in 22:o6.