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Show YALE WHIPS HER OLD RIVAL Wins 'Varsity Race From Harvard. Several Lengths to Her Good When the Shell Crossed the Lina. It Was a jFaultless Contest, and "Wearers of the Blue Had Better Crew. ' NEW LONDON, July l.-For the fourth consecutive year Yale today won tho 'varsity boat race from Harvard. Leading from start to finish, tho New Haven crew crossed the line seconds ahead ojC Harvard, which In boating terms means soven lengths of an elght-onred shell. It was tho worst whipping that Yale had given her old rival In recent years. In the 'varsity four-oared raco Stuyves-nnt Stuyves-nnt Fish. Jr., by a mishap which might have happened to any oarsman. Just prevented pre-vented the Ells from winning all three races of the annual regatta. In this race Yale, after lending by from 1 to 11 seconds, was beaten out at the HillBh as the result of Fish's catching a orab and then breaking his outrigger. An eighth of a mile from tho hnlsh tho Yale foUr-o&red foUr-o&red was elxMengths ahead of Harvard. Fish had already caught a crab earlier In the race and tho second mlBhap of the Ynlo man was fatal. The blue shell literally stopped. The Harvhrd men saw their chanco nnd, although badly pumped out won by one and one-half boat lengths. The story of the 'varsity and four-oared races Is. summed up briefly by tho official time as follows: Eight-Oar Eace. Yale. Harvard. Hnlf-nllle 2:27 2:83 One mile 5:03 5rl3. Mile and a half 7:1S 7:57 Two miles 10:31 10:40 Two and a half miles 13:17 13:30 Throe miles 16:10 16:28 Three and a half miles 18:55 19:16 Four miles 21:40& 22:10 Four-Oar Race. Yale. Harvard. Half-mllo 2:10 2:41 Ono mile 5:15 5:60 Mile and a half 8;42 S:E6 Two miles 12:15 12:12 In tho varsity raco Yalo got tho load almost nt tho start by running her stroke Up far nbovc her normal gait and then steadily Increased this lead on every half-mllfi half-mllfi with the slnglo exception of the second sec-ond half-mile. On this half-mile of the race Harvard cut this lead down by Just one-half a second. Bowed FaultlesB B'ace. The two 'varsity eights rowed a faultless fault-less race. Yale simply had tho bettor crow. Today's raco demonstrated that then Is about half a minute difference In the speed of the two crows. Yalo was a favorlto for the 'varsity race to tho oxtent of 3 to 1, somo bets at those odds bIng mado last night. Tho raco was rowed with a strong tldo and a strong wind In favor of the crews. There was too much wind, however, for good shell racing, and 'tho time wns correspondingly slow. Tho water was ao choppy that both crews dropped their strokes down very low again and again on account of the heavy swells, which mado a high stroke Impossible. Was Unique Eace. For this reason tho race wns unique. It haB novoc beforo happened that two varsity eights havo raised and lowered their strokes to such on extent as these two crews did In today's race. Yale's Btrdko ranged from twenty-five to thirty-six thirty-six to tho minute. Harvard's ranged from twenty-five to thlrty-slx to tho minute. min-ute. Yale's normal gait vMs thirty-two, whllo Harvard's normal gait was thirty-three thirty-three to thirty-four Yalo Had Longer Stroke. In the opinion of tho experts, Yale's victory Is duo to her longer stroke and tho fact that she used the powerful body owing and tho leg drive simultaneously, while Harvai'd used, upper leg drlvo power too quickly. So far as watermanship was concerned and tho harmony of tho oars, there was no choice between them. With two crews equally strong and rowing respective re-spective BtrOkes equally well, and both crews striving to row tho English 'varsity 'var-sity stroke, the explanation of Yale's victory vic-tory Ilea simply In the fact that the wearers of the bluo approached In their perfection more nearly to tho Ideal Uns-llsh Uns-llsh stroke than did Harvard. Captain for Next Year. ( Upon the return of tho Yule eight to their quarters, where they wcro accorded ac-corded an enthusiastic reception, tho oammcn elected as captain for next year Richard Whlttler of Stnten Island, N. Y.v who rowed ut No. 6 In today's race. Later O. D. Fllley of Paris, France, stroke Of this year's cr"ew, wns elected captain cap-tain of the Harvard 'varsity eight. |
