Show YALES VICTORY She Defeats Harvard in the Great Boat Since NEW LONDON Conn July 2Tho twelfth annual fourmile boat race betwren the eightoared crews representing the Yale I and Harvard Universities was rowed yesterday yes-terday afternoon over the Thames river course from Gales Ferry to Winthrop Point and was won by Yale by five and onehalf lengths Official time Yale 2 5 Harvard Har-vard 2107 rho attendance was something some-thing unprecedented and the scenes along tho course from tho start to the finish were very striking At 7i2S the word was given both crews catching tho water very quickly Harvard Raining the advantage Both crows started at a 30 stroke but after the first minute dropped into 3 and 3 Harvard gradually drew away from Yale and in the first eighth mile led by half a length Both crews were in perfect form and the excitement was intense in-tense Yales powerful stroke however sent her shell up until tho press boat were bow and bow Though the official time gives Harvard a lead of two seconds sec-onds Harvards time hero was 254 and Yales 256 Just after passing the half milo flag Yale dropped her stroke to 32 Harvard pulling 34 and 3 Yales slow stroke proved more effective and her boat dept slowly to the front and as they passed the mile in SilO and G23 Yale was just showing clear water ahead of Hat vards boat The second half mile was the fastest of the race Yale doing it in 224 and Harvard in 229 All through the third half Yale kept her stroke down to 32 and 3 while Harvard was palling 3 and 3 As they neared the navy yard Yale began to forge ahead and showed 2 feet of water between be-tween the boats Up to this point the race had been one of the most hotly contested ever rowed between the crews from these two colleges Off the navy yard Harvard spurted and made a grand effort to close tho gap bnt Yale responded nobly and at the twomile flag had increased her lead t a length and a half passing that point in UtfJX and Harvard in 1l3 At this point the r c was practically settled Yale was pulling in excellent form and her powerful pwerful stroke sent heralongat arattlioggate H vard was also pulling in good fortn4iutkeR stroke seemed to lose its effectiveness in the fifth half Yale gained five seconds and I having the race in her hands dropped her stroke to 0 and 31 Harvard was still rowing i row-ing 3 and 3 In tho sixth half Yale made i an additional gain of 17M seconds and passed to the threemile flag in 1414 with a lead of four lengths Harvards time 1425 I began to look like a procession and especially as in the seventh half Yale added a fifth length to her credit doing the haif in 311M to Harvards 2M and passing the threemile and a half flag in 20 minutes to Harvards 201934 lu tie lust halfmile Harvard made a desperate des-perate effort to lessen Yales lead but it was of no avail Yale maintained her slow swinging stroke paying very little attention to what Harvard was doing and dashed across tho finishing line in 22uriU an easy winner by four lengths Harvards time 2310 > When the Yale men stopped rowing row-ing Gill who pulled No 2 fell back in his seat exhausted being overcome by the strain and excitement NEW HAVEN July 2here was great re joicinp here last night over Yales victory in tho boat race Such excitement and jolifi cation has never been seen here The town was brilliantly illuminated and the victors on their return were escorted in triumph through the streets The annual race between the Yale and Harvard crews in eightoared shells is assuming as-suming or has already assumed the same relative position in American collegiate boating occupied in England by the contests con-tests between Oxford and Cambridge As an exact matter of fact the fourmile straight away races between Yale and Harvard Har-vard since the beginning of the series in 1875 have not all been closely contested I and much the more important feature has frequently been tho assembling of the I thousands of partisans of tho crimson and the blue on the Thames The crews differ from other oarsmen inasmuch as they are supposed to acquire a classical education simultaneously with proficiency pro-ficiency as athletes and every section of the United States has been represented repre-sented by tho crews of the past few years Yale and Harvard decided t have an annual exclusive race after it became apparent that in a scramble between the crows of a dozen colleges it became very uncertain whether accident instead of merit would not decide the event Several attempts have been made to have other colleges in the race but they have failed and the event continues to be representative only of what are classed as the two leading universities although other events have come in gradually while at first resisted to divide tho interest of tho week of competitive collegiate rowing Tho races this year between Yale and tho University of Pennsylvania Harvard and Columbia Varsity Var-sity and tho HarvardColumbia Freshmen have only lead up to the interest of the annual an-nual YaleHarvard contest The Harvard University crew is composed of A P Butler 8J W Woo 8 H W Keyes Captain 81 C E Shrl 89 J T Davis 89 E O Pfeiffer 89 W A Btk 87 E 0 Storrow 87 with J Q Brown 88 as coxswain Although these are Eastern East-ern boys they are well developed They average I weight 1C1 > pounds and one Pfeiffer is C feet 2 inches tall A majority are 21 years of age and older On the other had the Yale crew are even older Two of the Ynlensians Wilcox and Caldwell are 28 years old One of the substitutes sub-stitutes Cross ar is 2 years old The Yale stituts crew was made up of the following K M Wilcox 88 C O Gill88 Colin Rogers Captain 8 J W Middlebrooks 87 G W Woodruff 89 F A Stevenson 89 G Woodrf A Carter 8 E L Caldwoll87 with B Thompson 89 as coxswain The Yale crew may be said to be scientific three of the men belonging to the Sheffield Scientific belongng Some general interest may be manifested conce ning tho records made by the winning crews over the four mile course which is as crew straight as may be and some of these records re-cords are given as follows At Springfield in 1876 Yale 2 win 2 sec 1877 at Springfield Harvard 24 min 36 sec 1878 on the Thames at New London where all subsequent races have occurred Harvard Har-vard subseCuent mI sec 1879 Harvard 2 min 48 sec 1880 Yale 25 min 9 sec 1881 Yale 4 min 19 sec 1832 Harvard 20 min 47K s ac 1883 Harvard 25 min 4Gtf sec IBM Yale 2 min 31 sec 1885 Harvard 25 mm 1534 sec Yale won in 18SG |