The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
HARVARD CREW SET NEW MARK
 AGAINST YALE
Eli Shell Given Lone De- feat of Year in Rec.
 ord Time
BY GEORGE ,KIRKsEY


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 New London, Conn, June 26.- (UP) 1.-The payoff in rowing this year is on the Washington stroke. The Huskies swept the Hudson with 1t Tuesday and Harvard, using the same stroke, outrowed Yale in record-breaking varsity race on the Thames yesterday.
 The Washington stroke, which is a short, rhythmic motion placing a premium on leg and arm drive, was taught the Harvard oarsmen by Tom Bolles, who came to coach the Crimson this year after nine years as University of Washington fresh man mentor. Before that he rowed in the same Washington crew with Al Ubrickson, husky coach.
 The Crimson oarsmen learned the new stroke fast and well. They were so good at 1t on the placid blue wa ters of the river Thames yesterday that they beat Yale by length and two yards of open water in 20 min- utes, seconds, new record for the four-mile race upstream. Yale was timed in 20 minutes # 2-5 sec- onds. It was Yale's only defeat of the year.
 The main fellow who makes the Crimson crew function is James (Spike) Chace, 190-pound giant from New York city. He's Harvard stroke and he can make Crimson paddle do things to water. He's the biggest stroke oar any crew in the country has had since Tom Lom- bardi, a 195-pounder. stroked the Syracuse crew in 1892.
 Perhaps the largest crowd-an estimated 60,00O-in the history of Americas oldest intercollegiate sporting event saw the Crimson score its second straight triumph in the varsity race. This huge throng packed two observation trains, lined the banks of the river and peered at the spectacle from the decks of several million dollars worth of yachts, cruisers and pleasure craft lining the course all the way from the old cantilever railroad bridge to Bartlett's cove. It was one of the gayest and wealthiest sporting crowds gathered any place in years.
 Except for the first half mile Harvard was never out of the van. Yale padded into quick lead and was in front at 100 yards. Harvard, rowing smoothly at 32, gradually crept up inch by inch on the Ellis and collared them at three-quarters of 8 mile. Then with big stroke-oar Chace digging his Crimson paddles in steady, rhythmic pace, the Harvard boat glided away.
 At one mile the Johnny Harvards led by a few feet; at two miles they had a few feet of open water; and at three miles 1t was length. Yale put on its challenge in the first half of the last mile, and narrowed the Crimson's lead to three-quarters of length. But that bid took all the Ellis had and in the last drive to the finish Harvard pulled away again.
 The customary presentation or the shorts of the losers to the victors took place at the finish line, and then after Harvard rowed back to it's red top boat house little Eddie Bennett, 125 pound coxswain, was tossed into the river by his fellow oarSmen.
 Yale won the two preliminary morning races, taking the two-mile freshman race in 1915 1-5 and the two-mile junior vrsity in 1l:55 Is. Harvard led for a mile and a half of the freshman race but No. 5, Philips Hallowell. Milton, Mass, caught a crab, and the No. 2, Harry w. Wood, Philadelphia, collapsed and could barrel ypaddle the last half mile.