Year: 1873

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YALE GRADUALLY DRAWING AHEAD


further and further, until at the mile and qnar.
length and q quarter OF clear water between
her bow and Amherst's rudder post. quarter OF
. mile further and Yale, VINO had only once, and
that during the nth minute, rowed as lew as
heading towards the western shore, while Am
Harvard uniortunately shaping her course
towards the east bank, as they began
to get down towards the finish. Even yet, beaten
badly as she was, Harvard Kept in quite good fern
and had apparently husbanded her strength, for
she actually, In one squirt the close, qulckened
up to above ~ strokes q minute aud


THEY WENT ACROSS THE LINE


Yale with a long lead In Tim. $751; Amherst coming
second, more than ten lengths ahead OF Harvard.
had heard at dinerent times before the race that
the Harvard freshmen were not tough, and though
they proved that to be the TACT beyond q doubt.
they still rowed better together and got
less out OF shape than almost any
losing crew I remember. But they have work cut
out TOR next year TO be as good as Harvard fresh.
men usually are, for hear that II :35 Is the best
they could do over their home track on the Charles
River, while l have known previous freshmen
crews to row that track in 20 rs. Long as Harvard
faces began to grow among the crowds on the
bank, they had yet no reason TO do SO, for the
great race that beside which in the pubic estima-
ton this goes for scarce anything was yet To come,
and many times have the Yale freshmen had the
best Of Harvard, when in the next half hour her
university crew would have to take second place.


THE UNIVERSITY RACE.


Now again came evidences OF bunging manage.
ment, for when, shortly after I'VE O'CLOCK we naa
was yet In line, or even In sight. Soon, however,
the people on shore began to show unusual ANNA.
landing OF the Agawam Jerry, and six men In stout
blue flannel shirts with white handkerchleIs
he m aader se eastern
turned and took their position. This was B0wdoln.
And here comes another, this time from the other
side Of the river, and mufied In their overshiris-
the bow wearing q pretty reddish broad stripe
across his cap. Yer men paddle here between
OF the in the poorest posn on the
They are large men and strsng, tawny from long
exposure, locking as though they would have .


THAT LITTLE RIBBON


on the cap tells who they are, for when we steam team
young university which has sn0t up suddenly at
Ithaca has sent these men up here to pull their
come next. 1t Is an old time trick OF both Har
ward and Yale to each try to be last IN coming out
:" me start an true to their tTsaSa ron tey are
bank, half mile down the track. another
Long Long SIX oar % appears and aor instead mms M OF
along It's side and hold water on the drst stake
boat These are the fortunate men; the ones who
mad first choice, some OF whom were In the win
ming boat last year; men who stood WELL too, to-
day, In public estimation, and who hall from Old
Amherst. Seven minutes later the youngest and
the lightest OF them all slips out from her little
rat and turning brings her rudder post hard up by
station 8.


THE AGGIEs ARE THE NEXT.


Light and sinewy, with capital stroke Oarsman,
back her into line. Aud who are these
sturdy looking fellows who have come
'up" from s.down' the river; that stroke looks


IKE the SOL son Of some manly farmer who was used to
he pleased and fearing no one. The young man
has apparently learned to do likewise, and found
height OF about six feet two inches. These people
come from the college that supplied us with q Web
e1@ heS % up n. IN mew
but until they learn to row better and have more
oft they will be ''too much, y as one Of the old
farmers from their own State described President
Pierce. He thought HIM rather big man ior New
Hampshire but spread him over the whole United
states and he spread mighty thin. Five more yet,
and the crew coming steadily from up the river
and pulling up, turning quickly about and swing
ing gracefully into line, Is capped with the hand:
now be here quickly, and here they come, and,
turning about, wheel into line; In the next mo-
ns tey ON sS Sme araMs tSe in ne ao9 o ae
was sight the like OF which man in this
co"rss Gr & q M n saw Or unless
than this Is chosen may never be seen again. The
air was damp and cool, the Mater had fallen almost
the buzz OF admiration which ran along the crowd
on either bank when the outer shirts came or had
hardly ceased, when from the starter, q man well
fitted for his place, rang out round and clear,
the words to which some in these boats had for
long weeks and months and years been endeavOr-
Ing to say, yes truly, "Are you ready ~ and alter
waiting, as the rule required. five seconds OF bated
breath Tor every one Of all the thousands looking
on, from the lad in the three board skir to the
high up In the topnast bough on yOnder hillside 100
feet or more In air, well


ABOVE CORNELL's HEAD, CANE "Go.n


No second word was needed. In q moment, in the
twnkling Of an eye those sxty-siX strong rowers
caught that water like one man, and the pent-up
craze OF eagerness to get OF at last was getting
fast satisfied at the rate OF 40 strokes minute.
am well aware that ventured through your COL
umns to predict that the crew tnat beat Harvard
on this memorable afternoon would have to row as
few gentlemen in this country have ever rowed,
and nObly was she backing up my words Tor in the
first boat TO challenge them all for the lead
shone ont the brave red handkerchefs Thirty
eight minute, Dick Dana, you promised me from
the word go and that you would never bulge
half. To that task he set himself, and just look
how he lives up to IT, and look, too, at the pay he's
getting, for while the rival in all that company
rowing at stroke no crew can row hall
mile and live. plan which, II learned,
from oxford was learned since 80, when Oxford
did anything but that. The Harvard stroke by the
watch marks exactly thrty.eight, and yet inch by
inch foot by foot steadily, silently, surely does
Harvard draw ahead, until now, before one single
quarter OF a mile has gone she has vecred a tribe
to starbOard and has captured Yales water. In
the next minute by another wicked spurt Yale has
brought ner stern near to Harvard's RAIDER
that Devens sheers OF quickly to avoid loul. But
Is no one else coming up TO the front and making
fight Tor the lcad2


LOOK OVER THERE,



lar ont on the lett, almost under the 0verhanging
boughs. Yes, there Is another who Inns stepped
forth from the ranks, and who OF old have had
these fights all to themselves and who seem this
time to have passed on again, must even this early
in the fight let come In between them the good
men from Cornell, and who, with their thrty-nine
minute, is ncxtY You would guess many times
and each time name another, for the colors which
show to the fore are white and blue IN one anc
that one Is the standard of the six
sons Of York. grander sight Than that Of
these eleven boats and eleven times six men as
they galloped up that course few ever see. How
many hopes are concentrated upon each one OF all
these men and his performance during these sew
enteen short minutes Tue work OF this last year
and indeed, OF lifetime, Is beginning to tell now,
and glad IL each one there who Is nnding that his
hard work last Winter stands him In such COED
stead to-day. Concentration and drill, these
are all one needs to do almost ANYTHING
and when men will scrapc and pinch and bnild
fallen lighthouses, and work hard at rowing
weights and 20 all the way TO England to learn
how to row, and row when an awkward adversary
has without intending punched bad hole In ones
side, 1t is hard to say who ought to come In the
winner. May be none more worthy than they