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Show WON DYJIAKVARD. The Race Was a Enrpriss ai All Gocd Judges Had Conceded That Yals Would bs ths Victor, ACCIDENTS DURING THE RACE. Scsnes of the Wildest Excitement The Fresi Boat Twics Run Into by Tugs Cheering Spectators. New London, Conn., June 2fl. The sixteenth annual four mile, eight oared, straight away race between the Yale aud Harvard university crows was rowed this noon over the Thames course from Winthrop poiut to Gates Ferry, and was won by Harvard by cloven lengths. Time, 21:2.!; Yale's time, 21:02. I larvard's victory is tho biggest surprise in college atheletics for many years. Good judges of rowing conceded the race to Y ale almost to a man and so strong was this sentiment iu favor of Yule that stacks of money left at the pool rooms went uncovered even, at odds of 100 to 00. Harvard took the lead at the start and forged ahead with a rush. As their shell went ahead, the crimson supporters support-ers oo the observation train and thu innumerable in-numerable steamers became frantic with excitement. As the excitement spread soma very reckless work was done by the steamboat captains, and there were two collisions, aud that there were no serious results was simply a matter of good luck. Tw i miles up tho river the tug boat Gypy ran into tha prots boat, the shock throwing twenty-live or thirty people off their feet. At the finish, where the channel was tilled with all sorts of crafts, the prchs boat, in trying to avoid a collision with tho Fitndo Js'and struck the tug America, kuockiug many people peo-ple sprawling over the decks. Foi.u-uately Foi.u-uately no one was injured. The scenes at the finish were of the most eiuhujiastic character, tha Harvard Har-vard men boing wild with joy, while thoti!auds of Yale supporters were decidedly de-cidedly crest fallen over their unexpected unex-pected defeat. The scenes along the river were of an unusually brilliant aud lively character. An observation train of ;i5 cars carried an immcuse crowd while at least seventy-five steamers, steam and sail yachts, followed the crews over tho course or were anchored an-chored in desirable position. The fa-! fa-! vorite places along the west bank were also crowded with sight-seers. r , Promptly at 11-3J tho crews came k iawn the river toward the start boats. ,'larvard backed into position a minute '(later and Yale aoou afucr." f When the stroers were rven, the xitiiX Kivii mt'!jirnUim -and setting k fast stroke (forty) at onco passed the low of fhoir boat slightly in front. ,Vale started out with a thirty-eight f stroke. F'or a few strokes both crews caught ithe swell lanil splashed quite, badly, then settling down, each crew gave a pretty exhibition of rowing, the Harvards, however, clearly sending their boat along at a better speed than they had ever shown in practice and were gradually grad-ually creeping away from Vale. Yale's work on other hand was much inferior to that seen in their daily practice. At the halt mile Harvard led by a clear linglh. All during the second half Harvard continued to gain. Hero the steamers crowded on the boats and the swell caused both to do some ragged work for a few strokes. Near-ing Near-ing the mile Hag Harvard increased her lead to nearly three lengths. From the mi la to the mile and a half point Harvard Har-vard continued to gain and it became a question of how many lengths Harvard Har-vard would beat Yale. In tho next half Harvard by strong and steady work increased tue lead to nearly six lenglhs. Yale's boat continued to settle and hang, and it was now a procession Just after passing the navy vard the tug Cassie got squarely into Jlarvards course and they were obliged to make a wide swerve. Yale however profited little by this incident and Harvard getting back into their course continued to widen the gap between their boat and Yale. At two and a-half a-half miles Harvard hail gained an additional addi-tional three lengths and after passing tho three and a-half mile Hag they had a good lend of ton lengths. After passing the three and a half mile llag both crews settled down for tho finalspurt and here again Harvard showed superiority in every way over tho New Hiveu crew, both crews doing excellent work but Harvard's shell continued to show a steady gain, and they passed the finish fin-ish pulling forty strokes a minute, whilo Yale, eloven lengths behind, rowed thirty-seven. Harvard's crew rowed at once to thair quarters and Yale paddled up to Gates' Ferry. The otlicials were: Referee, Ref-eree, William A. Meikelharn of Columbia: Colum-bia: judges, Lawrence K. Sexton of Harvard and Hob Cook of Yale; timers, Charles F. Adams of Harvard and George A. Deo of Yale. |