Show big varsity eight oared and varsity four oared were put off until this morn ing Harvard wins freshman by half a second new london june 20 the thou who journeyed to the day for the animal yale harvard boat races saw one 0 the best freshman races that has ever been rowed on any course and then for eight hours the crowd eat in he rain and in vain for the varsity four oared race and the big varsity eight oared race finally early in the evening both the varsity and the four oared races were put over until tomorrow the eight oared raco will be rowed up stream at 1080 a m after which taft foura will be sent away yale won the freshmen race by half a second on a quarter of a boats length for two miles of this race ohp two shells zigzagged and neither crew ever had a lead ot more than a tenth it waa one of the robet remarkable boat races in the history of an intercollegiate racing f after the freshmen eights reached the starting flag and that waa long after th e time set harvard dragged her eiche boat and for a quarter of an the referee labored with the shells to j get them lined up the delay waa very tiding tor the crew finally atthe at the sound of the pistol both eights dashed away in splendid style yale bhoj ed in better form at the start than harvard and for the elret eighth of a mile had a trifle the better ot it then harvard settled down and reached the half allo flag a third of a tenth in the lead harvard finished the mile in yale over the next mile the struggle vas superb each crew raised the stroke one point at the mile and a halt flag the two boats were exactly even juat as the last halt mile flag was passed yale began the spurt that won the race she jumped her stroke up to 36 and began to pull ahead inch by inch harvard did not make her effort until an eighth of a ralle from the then her effort went to as lut it was too late tala waa leading by the length of her cavvaa bow as the flags dipped at the finish the two flags went down almost simultaneously and it waa several minutes before the knew who had won finally the referee shouted out the name of the winner and the yale youngsters sat up in their shell and gave a yala cheer with harvard on the end ot it yale hd won by just half a second the lime was yale 1020 harvard 1020 12 1 2 the crews had a fair wind but practically no tide and considering this fact the time was fast |