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RECREATION 



water at Poughkeepsie from the date of her 

 arrival to the date of the race, she has had 

 no proper opportunity to recover. 



THE GREAT NEW LONDON RACE. 



We have purposely refrained from men- 

 tioning the Yale and Harvard race before, 

 because in point of rowing ability nothing 

 shown by either of the crews this year com- 

 pares with Cornell's or 'Syracuse's perform- 

 ances, and to refer to the inferiority of the 

 dual college event would be to lose sight of 

 the splendid contest which the two crews af- 

 forded. In other words, viewed from the 

 standpoint of excellent rowing, neither Yale 

 nor Harvard are entitled to any marked con- 

 sideration, but from the point of view of a 

 stirring struggle, the race must rank as one 

 of the greatest that has ever been rowed in 

 college athletics. 



From start to finish there never was a 

 time during the entire four miles over which 

 the 'Varsity crews rowed when the two shells 

 were not lapping, though at one stage Yale 

 had an advantage, so that her stern-post was 

 level with Harvard's bow. At the finish of 

 the race less than half a length separated the 

 two boats. 



The closeness of the struggle is best shown 

 by the times at the various half-mile points 

 along the course. Yale got the lead at the 

 start and maintained it to the end, but her 

 margin was never greater than six seconds. 

 As officially timed the boats showed thus : 



V2 



mile 



Yale 



I 



mile 



Yale 



13/2 



miles 



Yale 



2 



miles 



Yale 



2]/ 2 



miles 



Yale 



3 



miles 



Yale 



3H 



miles 



Yale 



4 



miles 



Yale 



2.22 



5-io 



8.10 

 10.47 

 13.42 

 16.37 

 19-34 

 22.33^ 



Harvard 2.23 

 Harvard 5.12 

 Harvard 8.04 

 Harvard 10.53 

 Harvard 13.46 

 Harvard 16.43 

 Harvard 19.39 

 Harvard 22.36 



It is probable that the six seconds' margin 

 shown at the two- and three-mile marks was 

 greater than the actual margin that separated 

 the boats, for at this point time could only be 

 taken approximately from a position distant 

 from the crews, estimating each as having 

 passed the given point. It is a fact that clear 

 water never showed between the shells and 

 that six seconds is too large a margin for a 

 single boat length. 



For purposes of comparison, however, it is 

 evident that Harvard nearly held her own, al- 

 though Yale gained slightly during the first 

 mile and a half. It was here that Coxswain 

 Barkalow called on Yale for her first spurt 

 in anticipation of running away from the 

 Crimson as Eli had been accustomed to do. 

 The New Haven crew gained markedly and 

 brought their shell ahead of Harvard's, so 

 that the stern and bow of the two were on a 

 line. In the next half-mile Yale tried stren- 

 uously to pull away, but was handicapped by 

 an obstruction in the river which compelled 

 her to steer slightly out of her course, and 

 enabled Harvard to make up a quarter-length 

 on the Blue. In the next half Yale regained 



this distance, and entering on the fourth mile 

 she had the full boat length advantage. 

 harvard's splendid finish. 



It was here that in spite of evidence of 

 weakness in at least one man in the Harvard 

 shell, that the Crimson gave a magnificent 

 exhibition of grit and capacity that won all 

 honors for her in spite of her defeat. Slowly 

 but surely the boat gained on Yale until the 

 lead had been cut down to three-quarters of 

 a length. Harvard plainly was spurting at 

 the maximum of her strength, and there were 

 few who did not believe she was shooting her 

 last bolt and would inevitably in the last half- 

 mile drop back and be beaten by a decisive 

 margin. As she crawled steadily forward 

 Yale spurted to meet her, and for a time 

 ever so slowly; but again the Cambridge boat 

 began to advance, and no effort seemed suffi- 

 cient to shake her off. Every instant a col- 

 lapse was looked for, but delayed, and inch 

 by inch the Harvard shell gained, gained, 

 gained, until in the last quarter-mile it seemed 

 as if she might win out by a phenomenal ef- 

 fort, ' but Yale's lead was just sufficient to 

 carry her over the four miles in advance, and 

 though the bow of Harvard's shell just passed 

 the waist of the Yale boat, she could not do 

 better and the finish line was crossed with 

 the boats in this position. 



To add to the splendor of Harvard's per- 

 formance, she won the four-oared race be- 

 tween the two decidedly. In a measure, how- 

 ever, her success in this may have been due 

 to the removal of Ortmayer from the four be- 

 cause of the Daly disqualification. No such 

 excuse, however, can be made to explain the 

 Crimson's freshman victory, where the young- 

 sters won from the start and appeared to be 

 able to put a much larger margin between 

 the shells than actually existed. All down 

 the course both freshmen and four-oared 

 crews of the Crimson appeared to be rowing 

 well within themselves, holding Yale safe, 

 with the thought of reserving every ounce of 

 strength possible to meet Yale's spurt for 

 spurt. This they succeeded in doing without 

 difficulty. 



yale's baseball victories. 



The college baseball season ended in a se- 

 ries of sensational victories for the Yale team 

 that, in view of the strength of Harvard and 

 Princeton, was little short of remarkable. 

 With the material at the command of the 

 Tigers and the Crimson, there was reason tor 

 believe that both of these nines, except 

 against each other, would succeed in winning 

 every series of contests played, if not almost 

 every game. 



Their performances against the minor 

 teams seemed to justify this expectation. 

 Both nines were strong in the field and at 

 the bat, and possessed pitchers who, on pre- 

 vious records, deserved to rank among the 

 best that have graced college baseball. Byram 

 especially, a left-hander of exceptional merit, 



