Show II DEFEATS THE TUE YALE CREW S I Second Consecutive Victory for H Har Haryard yard In the Past Twenty Eight YeaN Now London Jul July a notable exhibition of rowIng b by a crow crew reo re remarkable for Its physical endurance Harvard this defeated Yale Yalo In their annual varsity boat race on the Thames The Tho crim crimsons sons crow led from the start to finish and won by six boat lengths Ban ards time was 2150 l O 2210 By this victory Harvard won her hor see sec end consecutive boat race from rom Yale In years Not Nol since 1880 and ISSI 1881 has harvard won two CODe conse consecutive races from Yale Since 1885 Harvard has won five 00 varsity races from Yale Yalo Including namely In 1891 1906 and 1908 Sinco Tray hm has been coaching nL at CambrIdge Yale and Harvard have havo not nol met thre times and the crimson has won two races The greatest crowd crowd that has hns ever oer assembled on the tho Thames poured Into New London today tOOny grow growing hag ing confidence In iii her boating system brought double and quadruple the tho number that usually follow the cnn son to the tho Thames while do de determination termination to win back her glory glor on the river brought a l Yalo aie crowd It estimated nt at least people wItnessed the race rac from trains and every other kind lelnd of oC vc c hick and from the tho yacht flotilla Although Harvard Banard won II by a hand handsome some sarno margin and administered a crushing defeat to Yale the race no bitterly up to the tho last half hair mile All the way up tho rivet rivel the tho two el eights rowed with al almost almost most equal precision an and a l slip of any kind In either elther such would have turned the tho victor victory Into defeat within a few seconds But there thore was wa no break In tile tho Harvard boat Rowing all the way war two strokes os and some sometimes times limes three strokes to the moro more than Yale the crimson eight crept away from the blue little by lit hit little the tle For two and n a half miles Yale Yalo kept within a scant boats length or of her hor rival Then Thea Harvard Hanard put on her power antI and Increased her hor lend head first to three lengths then to four lengths and filially to sL six lengths Yale Yalo spurted with her deter detor determination but It was In vain The official record was mile 6 mile 6 10 two miles 10 three miles 1610 four miles 21 2150 50 mile 27 mile 5 12 two miles 1048 1018 three miles 16 1620 O four miles 22 2210 10 Winning distance six sk lengths The Tho stroking of the crows by br miles follows Harvard start 39 one mile 34 two miles 31 three milos 35 finish 35 Yale start 38 mile 31 two miles 3 32 three miles 34 4 finish 36 The explanation of defeat Is not dIfficult Harvard with n a crew which averaged almost six to the man heavier than Yale Yalo was able to row right tHough the race raco at a snit gait which averaged two strokes to the tho minute faster aster than Yalo and AUtI get out or of this stroke stroe her ber maximum or of speed An Any crow that can row In inthe the tho form that Harvard lInnard or Yale Yalo rowed and at the saoe two more strokes a minute than its Ils rival and not exhaust Its mon men b by so doln doing Is hound bound to rin Comparisons of strokes and scientific discussions of method of rowing will not explain awa away defeat Yale ale toda today hInd had men In her shell who ahio proved that thal they were physically capable of oC rowing a splendid fourmile race raco But tho they met meta a Harvard crew of unusual physical power and endurance I Incidentally the tho race demonstrated I that Wray Is n a great greal conch coach Loss than I two weeks ago nail and almost 01 the tho eve eo of the race Wray deposed San Sargent n a aman man considered a great Ireat stroke and I PUt In his place Roger ROEer Cutler Culler whose physical proportions caused nInny many grave grao fears about the tho wisdom of this change It was wa this chango which saved savell the race for Harvard Sargent rowing In the form In which ho bail been pacing the tho crimson el eight ht could not have hao won for harvard this afternoon Dr By putting Cutler Culler In at stroke tim tho Harvard stroke until It was equal to thiat of Yale and nt at atthe the same time retained fast faster or er gait alt The race was wa rowed d up stream with Ith the tide lido In the eight were ero two sots of Roger Cutler I tho Iho harvard stroke Is a brothel or of Eliot Cutler of the tho Harvard bow boss while nl at No S G No S j the two With WithIn Ith In of Honolulu rowell t No I sat Gat ElIot Bacon Dacon son o of Secretary ex Bacon whose hose t two o brothers hall hail pro hire ceded 11 him as Harvard carmen a as harl their fathers father Former Secretary Bacon Dacon loaning against tile the rail of tho I referees launch haunch the Scout Scant the race with interest until he saw his boy a winner On tue tho jl JI I rage Was Postmaster Hitch HItchcock code cock while ot or the thc Nav Navy 1 k George von on I L Meyer saw the tho contest from Crom the U S S Dolphin It was wa just nine minutes past G C 1 when the crack orad of oC Referee pistol started the crews In the tha race Doth Both crews creys got 3 away a In infine fine fino form Harvard rowing at 39 strokes to the minute Yale at S 8 Artor the tho start the blue cre crew down to 3 33 strokes to the min mm uto and Harvard dropped to 36 At the tho half mile flag Yale had lot let lother lether her stroke down to 31 but Harvard had dropped only to 34 to the Over thin half mile the tho struggle glo was practically nit an ovon een one up to within n a few lengths of the flag whoa when lIar Har Haran sard an began to push the tho nose of her hor hershell shell to tho thio front At the tho flag fing Han Hanyard yard ard had bad a lead head of jl Just t second On the tho second half mile Harvard In Inyard yard had n a lead Iad or of just ono one second reaching tho mIle flag fing of oC n a length ahead of oC Yale Harvard was wasI still rowinG 34 31 strokes to th minute I while Yale was bitch to 31 On the third half mile the crimson oarsmen holding a steM steady 3 34 another second and nt at the mile and a half flag ther the had a lead ot of practically practical a boat length On the fourth half mlle mile there thero was no change In the tho po positions of the shells nor In the tho number or of strokes rowed by either olther crow Just beyond the two mlle mile flag fing oft off the Navy Yard Yale made her hor first determined effort to cut down Harv ards lead the Ells Elis stroke raised his gait to 31 strokes to the tho minute and for a few foW lengths It looked looke as though Ito he would ho bo able ablo to over overtake overtake take the tho Cambridge boat But Roger Cutler also hud hind something In reserve and also raised his stroke to two Harvard passed the two and a half mile flag still leading Yale b by three seconds Yalo was compelled to drop her stroke bock back to 3 32 but Harvard was strong enough to keep hers at 36 This was the point In the therace I Irace race It was on this sixth hat half milo that tho crimson first really got bot away from Yale At the three mile flag Harvard had a lead leall of ton ten seconds s which measured out on the th river was three boat boaL lengths At Al the three and a 11 halt haIr no flag Harvard was leading b by H 14 seconds having increased her lead b by four s eec on this half mile The Tho Yale men wore were still BUIt rowing well weli together and hail had enough fight let left letIn leftin In them to pitt their stroke up to 36 Harvard raised liens hero to th the same sarno rate and crossed the line tw twenty nty seconds secondo ahead of Yale leading by br practically six lengths in n less than a minute after aCter the race was waR over oer the t two o eights rowed to their quarters Yale In the lie gloom of harvard Haryard amid time noise and glory glor or of victory Ictor to fall Into the arms arnis of old haul had tumbled out of the tion trains There Thore was no criticism o of either crew wIth time the lion of Dixon Van No 7 Once In the race ho was noticeably in hits his stroke At the tho Harvard quarters the tho crew elected Jesse ELI Edwin win aid 1 1910 of Denver captaIn for or next year lIe rowed at No 7 1 In the crew He Is IsO 20 O years old six foot feet two Inches In height and alid 1 j pounds |