Evening star., 1941-06-15
Strong Crimson
EIiCrew
81 Lengths
In Front From Sturt
Of Race; Triumph
Ends Fine Season
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW LONDON, Conn, June IA
Harvard's oarsmen stretched their
string of rowing successes against
Yale almost into monotony this eve
ming, as the Crimson varsity shell
streaked under the railroad bridge
at the mouth of the River Thames
solid 3l4 lengths in front Of the
Ellis.
1t was the sixth successive varsity
triumph, and the 18th straight
meeting on the Thames in which a
Harvard boat Of one sort or an
other has come home first. Not
since the Junior varsity race in 1887
has the Crimson tasted defeat, and
today's victory marked Harvard's S
fourth straight clean sweep OF COM
bination freshman, junior-varsity
and varsity contests.
From the smooth flow of power
which the Harvards bent into their
blades all through the 4 miles, and
the margin by which they won, 1t
seemed likely they might have bet
tered Yale's 1884 course record of
19 minutes, 518 seconds, but they
were almost minute off that mark,
timed in 20 40 to 20:534 for Yale.
Harvard Shows No Flaws.
Trying to find any flaw with this
Harvard crew, however, would be
like trying to find wrinkles on a
full-blown Georgia peach. This was
a boat which, stroked by 19-year-
old sophomore Darcy Curwen of
Exeter, N. H, jumped into 2-foot
lead almost in the first three
strokes. and from then on until the
final few hundred yards rowed at a
low, but powerful beat that was
more than Yale could handle at any
stage.
Having jumped their rivals at the
start, Harvard promptly settled
down to a beat of 80 strokes to the
minute and proceeded to pull away
to a bare length lead in the first
half mile. They ran that TO a
length and a half at mile. two
lengths at a mile and a half, and
three lengths a. the halfway sta
ton, the busy submarine base.
Through the next mile Harvard
once upped the beat to run its mar
gin TO four lengths or more, eased
back to % as Yale came back 10
three lengths away, and then
brought it up again to 35 anc
finally to 40 in the final sprint Il
the finish
Great Season for Crimson.
1t was the finish TO fine season
for the Harvard oarsmen and the
Washington-trained coach, Ton
Bolles. Each of five Bolles varsities
has beaten Yale. The first of the
six straight varsity victories was
turned in by the last crew coached
by Charley Whiteside. This years
crew. in addition, had finished its
preliminary" season as undefeated
Eastern sprint champion.
For Yale, the defeat meant
strong revival of the rumors that
Yale is about finished with Head
Coach Ed Leader. Up to today
Leader, seven of whose first eight
crews whipped Harvard, still could
say his boats were even, at nine vic
tories and nine defeats.
But Leader went on the debit side
tonight, and with him Yale dropped
behind in the series. at 80 victories
to Harvard'S 40 in the competition
begun in 1852.
The Harvard varsity's margin was
the largest of any of the four win
ming boats. The substitutes won
by length and half Friday eve
ming, while the freshmen won by
% lengths and the junior varsity
by length this morning. All these
races were at two miles.
Much of the customary glamour
was missing from this renewal of
the countrys oldest college sports
rivalry. The spectator fleet was
slim and the boats in it were small
at most. Some 5000 saw the race
from the observation train.
Jayvees Duel Is Keen.
Actually the jayvee duel was the
only one Of the day which produced
any sort of contest. Harvard, after
drawing away to three-quarters of
a length lead in the first three
quarters of a mile, was hauled back
on even terms half a mile from
home. But it suddenly started
whipping it up and spurted a full
length in front in the closing $50
yards.
The half-mile times and varsity
boatings:
Times; Haryard-e:25s, 300, 7;37.
i;3o tGs S;11; 1d,55 10 1928 1888 1882.
Boatinss: Harvard-Bow, W. Bruce Pr
Samuel p Goddard jr.. st. Louis: 4. sher
man Gray &C.. Salt Lake City Utah; 5.
A. Theodore Lyman, jr, Westwood Mass;
G, H Hslett Whitman, jr Boston; :.
David Challinor. jr., Noroton, Conn:
stroke Darcy Curwen. Exeter. N. H: cox
swain Thomas W. Boynton, Scarsdale,
N Y
Yale-Bow, Arthur x Watson New
YORK; No. . Robert Wallace. Wallingford
Conn; 3, George S. Pillsbury Crystal Bay,
MINI: 4, Theodore Kiendly, jr., BronXville
Y: 5, Richard N. Gould (C), Chicago;
q, Charles p Ahera River l.