| Show YALE FRE HMEN ViCTORS They Win the Triangular Boat Race on the Thames THEIR THIRD VICTORY Harvard Canto in Second and Columbia I Poor Third Heretofore Columbia Has Been Al lo to Defeat IlnrvarrtOclds ol Three to i Ono on Yale Avitli 2fo Takers Other Sporting feivs NEW LONDON Conn June28 For the third consecutive time Yale freshmen today von the annual triangular boat race on the Thames by defeatinc Harvard t college by eight and Columbia by thirteen thir-teen lengths in the time of 1023 The only asjj ct in which tho result of this years race dLfers from the two immediately V immedi-ately proceeding was that Columbia finished I while ished a poor third today whie she has been able to defeat Harvard heretofore The Yale men recklessly Ir mJ red odds of 3 to one on their 96 crew but the money went crying However I the relative posi J all that was put up on tion of Harvard and Columbia at tho finish The partisans of three contesting t contest-ing colleges exhibited all the patriotic enthusiasm of tho university Yale luck gave that boat the best course the central d one Harvard chose the west and Columbia Colum-bia was left to take the east SIde t At 54S the referee gave the signal Columbias start was auspicious Yale f cot away slowly but in line shape and Harvard splashed and floundered aim larard lessly A hundred yards from the start r Columbia and Yale tied and Harvard was a few feet behind As the hal mile fiacre r > were passed Yale was three lengths in the < lead Columbia still keeping a scantylead over Harvard Yale was four lengths ahead at the mile post and Harvard r worked out a lead of a length f At the mile and a half Harvard had two engths lead over the Columbia crew and Yale was six lengths in head A half l mile from the finish the race was decided and Yale and Harvard rowed with assurance assur-ance of victories In the Columbia boat they pulled like f galley slaves but their efforts were fruitless fruit-less and finally ended by Sturciss No 7 C I catching a crab lost his balance as well as his oar and fell back into the lap of I No 6 I was lucky that only momentary contusion resulted The three crews crossed the finish with Yale thirteen 1 lengths ahead Columbia the rear boat and Harvard five lengths before Columbia i and eight behind Yale The official time r 3s as follows Yale 1023 Harvard 3047 Columbia 1102 |
