New Britain herald., 1922-06-24
YALE VARSITY CREW
 C0NQUERS HARVARD
Blue Oarsmen Are 2 1-2 Lengths
 Ahead at Finish

New London, June c4.-,Row'ing a steady sustained stroke of S2 to the minute for the full four miles, the Yale varsity crew defeated Harvard's eight by close to three lengths in the feature race of the 55th regatta of the rival universities here late yestcr- day afternoon. The story of the race
 is a story of a three-foot lead snatch ed in the first few beats of the contest gradually stretched into three length lead at the finish of the long four r-mile upstream row.
 The contest, which savored more of a well-ordered procession rather than battle of blades. was without parti- cular thrill other than the perfect form and oarsmanship shown by the New Haven crew coached by the English oarsmen. George and Jim Corderry. In this respect Harvard was not so far behind but the final application of power so noticeable in the Eli blade work was missing to greater extent in the beat of the Crimson.
 Yale Superiority
 The superiority of the Yale crew is we'll illustrated by the official time for the race which was won in 21 minutes and 53 seconds to Har- vard's 22 minutes and seconds. The wnner's time yesterday fell one min ute and 51 seconds behind the course record made by Harvard in 1916.
 The Blue-tipped oars were showing the way at the end of the first half mile by three quarters of a length and this distance had been increased mile. At the half way flags Yale was in the van by two and quarter lengths. the times of the two shells being, Yale 1o:37; Harvard, 1o:45.
 Here the Cambridge combination made it's one desperate effort to over take the leaders and raising the stroke to 34 slowly crept up for the major fraction of a shell length but Yale answered the challenge with a little deeper catch and a tri1e more power and soon regained the advan tage of full two lengths lead
 Gain Gradually
 Strengthening out for the final mile drive to the finish line at Bartlett's Cove, the Eli weepswingers, without raising the stroke a single beat | gradually carried the stern of ther shell a few feet at time away from | the Crimson craft. The two length | lead increased to two and quarter, l 10 two and half and to the chorus of steam yacht whistles and sirens in 1 the last few strokes Yale drove ahead | until full three lengths separated ] the victor and vanquished.
 The official times by half miles for the full race follow:
 Yale. 2.34, 5.17. 7.52, 1o.37 13.11, Le11, 1858, 21.53.
 Harvard, 237. 5.21, 7.5s, 10.45, 1924, 1920. 1907, 22.o6.
 The triumph of Yale varsity eight coming after the double defeat in the forenoon race when the Eli fresh- nen were swamped the first con- est and the juniors were completely | outcassed in the contest for second | shells proved stimulating ictory to Eli rowing supporters last light. For the second consecutive ime in two years Yale varsity ,rew had turned back the Harvard avorites in the big race of the an ,ual inter-varsity regatta between hse two famous New England uni 'ersities.
 While the race of today lacked the drilling climax that came some 12 months ago when the Blue, after a ong stern chase, overhauled its Crimson rivals and beat them in Irving finish, by a few feet. this bsence of thrill was more than made up for by the smoothness and with which yesterdays
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