Salt Lake Herald | 1908-05-24 | Page 19 | Five Eights Beat Record

FIVE fin EIGHTS BEAT T RECORD Philadelphia May Ia the best re regatta gatta ever held by b the American Row flow Rowing flowing ing inS association five fhe different eights this afternoon beat the record for the course of ot a mile and ft sixteenths on the Schuylkill river In this city The best mark murk of the day da was as that of or 6 minutes 26 c seconds s e which was made by the Uni University varsity of varsity eight and the New York Athletic club when they the rowed a dead heat for first place in the race for the first eights Again In Iii n the race for junior college crews all three contestants Yale Pennsylvania and Har Bar vard yard boot beat the former figures of or 6 min utes 34 seconds the time of or the victori oils ous Yale eight being 6 minutes 27 Z sec eec ends and of the Harvard Hanard and Pennsylva nia crews which rowed a dead heat for second place 6 36 35 New York crews carried off ort the lions share of ot the honors winning four firsts and one Philadelphia was second with three firsts and a tie for first Georgetown preparatory school Harvard Yale and Baltimore each got one first One of or the biggest crowds that ever eer saw sawa sawn a n local regatta lined the banks of or the river rhel to witness the finishes